Right to Work is stepping up its campaigning activity against the ConDems’ cuts, job losses and austerity. The number of anti-cuts protests around the country is increasing all the time – and the recent student protests have hit a new level of militancy and shown the up the weakness of the ConDem government. That’s why we have launched a new website, which we hope will boost our campaigning work and help more people get involved. We are also upgrading our office IT systems and communications.
We also have a new email address - info@righttowork.org.uk - and an address where you can send us news for our website - reports@righttowork.org.uk

New website features

We hope you like the new site. On the front page, you will find news about cuts protests around the country and regular updates about Right to Work activities. There is also an action diary listing upcoming events.
You can also find our latest campaigning materials listed under campaign kit and our pick of the web – a continually updated stream of the latest news for activists – as well as our Twitter feed.
You can also find out how to affiliate to Right to Work and read RTW national secretary Chris Bambery’s blog.

What do you think?

Have a look round! Leave a comment below and tell us what you think, or get in touch through our contact page.

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Merseyside Unite Against Fascism bulletin

Merseyside Unite Against Fascism

liverpool@uaf.org.uk / 07908 202 006

1. Mobilise for Luton : Stop the EDL Saturday 5 February 2011

2. EDL turns its fire on student anti-fees protesters

3. Merseyside Unite Against Fascism Meetings

4. Unite Against Fascism National Conference 26 February London

5. Future Events

 1. Mobilise for Luton : Stop the EDL Saturday 5 February 2011

 The English Defence League has backed down over its plans to invite Terry Jones – the anti-Muslim racist US pastor who sparked international outrage with calls to burn the Qur’an – to its demonstration in Luton on Saturday 5 February.

Jones is pastor of a church with just 50 members but his call to burn the Qur’an on the anniversary of 9/11 made him a key figure for anti-Muslim racists around the world.

The EDL, an organisation of racist thugs with links to the British National Party and other fascist groups, had boasted it was “proud to announce” that vicious racist and homophobic bigot Jones would speak at its demonstration in Luton on 5 February.

Backtrack

But the EDL has been forced to backtrack after its announcement sparked widespread revulsion among the public in Britain and abroad. The racist thugs did not have the confidence to carry through their invitation.

It has been reported that home secretary Teresa May was considering a ban on Jones. But that is not why the EDL backed off – home office bans on EDL marches in Bradford, Leicester and elsewhere have done nothing to stop the EDL from mobilising.

The EDL includes hardcore fascists who periodically try to “harden up” its racist support. From time to time, they test the water to see how far they can push their violent racism.

Mobilise

Where they have been pushed back this has been because the vast majority of ordinary people reject the EDL’s racism and violence and because antiracists and antifascists have been prepared to mobilise against them and demonstrate that opposition on the streets.

That is why it is essential that antiracists and antifascists turn out again to oppose the EDL in Luton on Saturday 5 February, when UAF is organising a major demonstration against them.

The EDL was formed after masked racist thugs went on the rampage through Luton last year, attacking Asian residents and spreading fear and intimidation.

That is the reason they are targeting Luton again – their own publicity is designed to remind its supporters of their hate-filled history.

Home-grown racists

The invite to US pastor Terry Jones was designed to whip up publicity for the EDL – but he is not the main event. The problem in this country is the home-grown racists of the EDL.

We need to build the widest possible opposition to the EDL and their anti-Muslim racism and violence.

The campaign to push back the EDL and marginalise their racist hatred must not be scaled back because Terry Jones will no longer be coming. Let’s show the EDL they are not wanted here either.

Merseyside Unite Against Fascism will be running coaches to this protest : Tickets will be on sale in News from Nowhere, Bold Street or email liverpool@uaf.org.uk / tel : 07908 202 006. We are urging all our supporters and friends, trade unionists to come with us. We cannot allow the EDL to rampage on the streets of Luton.

2. EDL turns its fire on student anti-fees protesters

The leader of the English Defence League has turned his fire on students protesting against fees and cuts.

The EDL is an organisation of racist thugs, with links to the British National Party and other fascist groups. It has so far mainly targeted Muslims with its vicious racism and violence.

But in a speech to EDL supporters in Peterborough on 11 December, EDL leader “Tommy Robinson” – a former BNP member whose real name is Stephen Yaxley Lennon – issued a threat to student demonstrators.

Threatened

His speech alternated attempts to whip up anti-Muslim hatred with attacks on the thousands of school and college students who have protested against fees and education cuts over the past weeks. He threatened:

The next time the students want to protest in our capital, the English Defence League will be there.

In terms that will come as news to millions of working class school and university students, he claimed:

You had students living off their dads’ f***ing bank cards who have never lived a normal way in their life. They do not understand what it is to be a working class member of this community.

And in a single scattergun blast, he lashed out at students, Unite Against Fascism and “communist scum”. His speech followed streams of hate directed at students on the EDL’s forums.

The speech signalled that the EDL is moving to broaden its targets. The racist thugs have largely attempted to build by attacking Muslims – and other black and Asian people.

In towns including Dudley and Stoke, EDL supporters have run rampage, attacking people, homes and shops. They have also attacked Mosques and a Hindu temple.

Hardening

Fascists within the EDL have been trying to “harden up” the organisation’s supporters and push them towards other traditional targets of fascism, including trade unionists and socialists as well as ethnic minorities.

There have been a series of attempts to disrupt antiracist and left-wing meetings, an attack on Swansea Trades Union Council’s annual May Day march and verbal abuse of the BA strikers. Now they are turning on students.

UAF national officer Martin Smith said:

Some people in the antifascist movement have argued that if the EDL comes to your town, you should stay at home, ignore them and hope they’ll go away. We think that’s wrong. There are fascist elements with a growing influence in the EDL – and if you give an inch to a fascist, they’ll come back for more.

First they come for the Muslims, then it is trade unions and the socialists, now it is students. We need to unite and stand together – and oppose the EDL. When they attack one community, it’s an attack on all of us. And we should remember that if we all come together and stand united, there are many, many more of us than them.

3. Merseyside Unite Against Fascism Meetings

Our next meeting is 7pm Wednesday 26 January at the Unite Offices, Islington (just along Lime Street past the Empire Theatre).

Given the recent BNP stall in Liverpool city centre and other areas will need to strengthen our networks over the coming months. The meetings are open to everyone who wants to get involved.

Meetings after this will take place the last Wednesday in every month at 7pm in the Unite Offices. A big thank you to UNITE the Union for allowing us to use their premises!

4. Unite Against Fascism National Conference 26 February London

 The Unite Against Fascism annual conference takes place on Saturday 26 February in London. More details will follow as soon as we get them. Check on the UAF website www.uaf.org.uk for up to date details.

5. Future Events

 Merseyside Love Music Hate Racism are just putting the finishing touches to plans for a major anti-racist festival to be held with the Anthony Walker Foundation on Saturday 9 July 2011 at Liverpool University.

It will be an all day event encompassing sports, culture and music with a large Love Music Hate Racism gig in the evening. We will be inviting community groups, trade unions and campaign organisations to get involved and have stalls at the event. We would like to run projects in schools, colleges and youth centres in the run up to the festival so if you have ideas then drop us a line at merseyside@lovemusichateracism.com.

We'll post more details in the New Year!

peace, love and unity

Alan

Merseyside Unite Against Fascism

liverpool@uaf.org.uk / 07908 202 006

Bulletin 5

Thank you to everyone who braved the cold to attend the demonstration and rally last Saturday in Liverpool.  It was a good turnout and kept alive the spirit of fightback which has been so visible through the recent student protests. 

 

The cuts are starting to take effect on our local services and will continue to do so in the coming months.  According to today's Liverpool Echo, the local government cuts will mean that:

"Revenue spending power in Liverpool will fall by £72.2m, in Knowsley by £23.4m, in Sefton by £19.5m, in St Helens by £18.1m and in Wirral by almost £30m in 2011/12"

Cutting jobs is not the answer.  The economic crisis was not caused by local government employees, it was caused by bankers and greedy corporate fat cats.  Demonstations against Phillip Green (Owner of the Arcadia Group of shops) and Vodaphone have gathered support and momentum across the country.  Vodaphone have had a tax bill of over £5billion written off and Phillip Green avoids paying UK tax to the tune of £25billion a year as he claims residency in Monaco where his wife lives.  He lives in London in a hotel most of the week!  For more information about protests in Liverpool use the following link: http://www.ukuncut.org.uk/actions

 

Key dates in 2011:

 

Tuesday 11th January 2011: Merseyside Right to Work Annual General Meeting. Venue tbc. As a group it is important that we keep ourselves viable, therefore we need to have a constitution, steering committee and bank account.  As soon as I confirm a venue I will send out more details of the AGM agenda and draft constitution which will need to be agreed at the meeting, as well as positions available on the steering committee.

 

Saturday 12th February 2011: The national Right to Work campaign is holding a convention in London (see website for details http://righttowork.org.uk/2010/11/peoples-convention/).  It is £5 waged and £2 unwaged.  I would urge you to make the effort to attend as it will be a brilliant opportunity to get together with other activists and find out what people are doing across the country to fightback against the cuts.  Please let me know if you are interested in attending.

 

Saturday 26th March 2011: TUC national demonstration in London against the Coalition's cuts to the public sector and welfare state.  The TUC are aiming to make this event as big as the Stop the War demonstration in 2003 which brought one million people onto the streets of London in protest at the invasion of Iraq.  Merseyside Right to Work took 75 people to Birmingham to protest at the Tory Party Conference, lets take over 100 to London.  Coach tickets will be available in the New Year.  The close vote on tuition fees last week shows how weak the coalition is and a mass public movement and demonstration could act as the catalyst for bringing down the Tory party leadership in the same way as the Poll tax protests did twenty years ago.

 

Finally there are several local council meetings in January and February which I think we should lobby now that the cuts to local government budgets has been announced.  The last lobby we had outside Liverpool Council's meeting ended up with an impromptu sit down protest in the road which stopped traffic for half an hour. If anyone has any ideas for stunts we could do at the lobbies please let me know as that always helps with publicity. Dates and times of council meetings below (times are the start of the meeting so lobby should assemble an hour before):

 

Weds 12th Jan 2011: St Helens Council, 6.15pm

Thurs 13th Jan 2011: Sefton Council (Southport Town Hall), 6.30pm

Weds 19th Jan 2011: Liverpool Council, 5pm

Weds 9th Feb 2011: Knowsley Council (Municipal Building, Huyton), 6pm

Mon 14th Feb 2011: Wirral Council (Wallasey Town Hall), 6.15pm

 

When they say cutback, we say fightback.

 

In solidarity,

 

Debs Gwynn

Convenor, Merseyside Right to Work

Save the Education Maintenance Allowance

Can everyone please click on the link below and sign the petition to save EMA. This is a vitally important campaign, from all of the devastating educational cuts this is one of the most severe, and an open attack on the poorest families in our society.

SAVE THE EDUCATIONAL MAINTENANCE ALLOWANCE

Sefton Anti-Cuts Protest

There is a protest planned against Sefton Council cuts and the closure of St Wilfrids School at the next full council meeting, Thursday 16th December at Bootle Town Hall (opposite Bootle OP railway station). The council meeting takes place at 6.30pm, so the protest will start shortly before that. When I hear of more details I will update the blog.

 

Danny Foy

Thursdays Day of Action

Add your name to the statement by emailing sean.vernell@yahoo.co.uk…spread this out widely

Our students are fighting to defend education for all- join them.

University of London Union and UCU London Region have called a demonstration on Thursday 9th December, the day Parliament debates the raising of the cap on tuition fees, to add support to the mass lobby of Parliament called by UCU and NUS.
The student movement has inspired all those who wish to defend education for all. If the Coalition government get away with raising tuition fees and cutting EMA it will deny access to Further and Higher Education making it the preserve of the very wealthy. 
By taking to the streets in their tens of thousands, students have broken the idea that cuts are inevitable. They have exposed the government as weak and demonstrated that they can be stopped from wrecking people lives.
As student placards have stated: “We did not cause this crisis - why should we pay for it?”
We are calling upon the trades union movement and community organisations across London to come and join the students fighting for all of our futures.
Please email sean.vernell@yahoo.co.uk to add your name

Liverpool Anti-Cuts Demo

Please support the anti-cuts demo in Liverpool on Saturday 11th December. It's crucial we make this protest the biggest and liveliest demonstration in Liverpool for a long time. As the rest of us face cuts in our jobs, services and communities the rich get away with avoiding to pay billions in tax. We urge all our supporters and the wider public to back this demo. Len McCluskey the newly elected leader of Unite the union will be speaking. There will also be speakers from other trade unions, the student anti-cuts movement and the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. Please do all you can to come and bring your friends, colleagues and family ! This promises to be a very big and important local protest. We need you all there to make it so.

Sat 11th Dec* at 11am:  Merseyside Against the Cuts March and Rally (organised by
Public Sector Alliance and Merseyside Trades Union Council) Assemble at the
RC Metropolitan Cathedral 
Mount Pleasant
Liverpool 

Upcoming Events

1. Join the Students Protests

This Thursday!

Right to Work is urging all its supporters to join the student protests this Thursday. Bring a delegation and banner from your campaign, trade union, workplace or wherever.

There are widespread reports of lecturers walking out on the day alongside the students.

The London demonstration assembles 12 noon at the University of London Union, Malet Street.

To be put in touch with your local Right to Work group to find out local details for student protests – contact 07986 085 162

2. Protest Over Housing Benefit & Rent 'Reforms'

15 December                                            

Stop attacks on tenants - Build council homes

Protest at Downing St 12.30 pm, on Wednesday the 15 December. Meet on Whitehall opposite Downing St. Nearest tube Westminster.

• CAP RENTS NOT HOUSING BENEFIT

• HANDS OFF OUR SECURITY – NO MEANS TESTS

• NO EVICTIONS DUE TO CUTS IN HOUSING BENEFIT

• OPPOSE 80% MARKET RENTS

• BUILD NEW AND IMPROVED COUNCIL HOUSING

Government proposals to cut housing benefit, force rents up to 80% of market levels, and remove security of tenure for new tenants will increase fear and insecurity, rent arrears, evictions and homelessness.

They want to drive more into private renting and destroy the principles of public housing. We want secure and stable mixed communities – not poverty traps and transit camps.

Housing Emergency is bringing together organisations and individuals to oppose attacks on Housing Benefit, rents and secure tenancies, and for investment in new and improved council and affordable secure rented homes

Supported by, House of Commons Council Housing Group; Defend
Council Housing; Unite, GMB, Public and Commercial Services trade
unions; Barking & Dagenham Council; Leeds Tenants Federation; Tower
Hamlets Tenants Federation; London Coalition Against Poverty; Right to
Work Campaign; Labour Representation Committee; Disabled People
Against Cuts.

Further information: eileenshort@hotmail.com

Bring cardboard boxes and sleeping bags.

After this disabled people will move on to the Trafalgar Square Xmas tree, at about 3, for some nativity themed photo ops. We will be visited by Joseph and Mary and their lovely donkey. We will meet them with placards carrying our borough names and turn them away.

Write to Rich bigchief@groups.facebook.com

Or Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=121196194603310

More information at their facebook group sites

Target Sir Philip Green Tax Dodger – Protest at Top Shop

Local Right to Work groups should be targeting Topshop in protest at Cameron and Osborne’s pal Sir Philip Green’s tax avoidance

Demo outside Liverpool Royal Hospital

Hi All

  

Thurs 2nd Dec - demonstration outside Liverpool Royal Hospital, 12-2pm

This is a rolling demo like the one on the 22nd Oct i.e. if you have a few minutes at lunchtime to pop down it would be appreciated.

 

The demo is part of an ongoing campaign against PFI and budget cuts.  When Right to Work went down with the banner last time it was very well received by the staff.

 

In solidarity,

 

Debs Gwynn

Convenor, Merseyside Right to Work

Photos from student walkout, day x, weds 24th Nov, Liverpool. Photos by Kev Purdy

You tube clips to make you smile!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKFTtYx2OHc

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdsfxbuOjTQ

 

 

Bulletin 4 (28th November 2010)

“The game has changed, we are living in an era of mass protests.” (Sir Paul Stephenson, Commissioner of the Met Police)
This week has seen more protests by students and the recognition by some of the establishment that the political climate is changing (see quote above).

The Education Activists Network is calling for a second day of protests (Day X2) on Tuesday of this week and some students are still in occupation of their university/college buildings, including University of Manchester.

Here in Liverpool we have a fantastic opportunity to show our anger against the Tories this week as Michael Heseltine is visiting the city on Thursday.  He will be remembered and hated for his intervention as "Minister for Merseyside" after the Toxteth riots, when, amongst other "regeneration projects", he was responsible for the disastrous festival garden site.  During the Thatcher era he was also instrumental in the council housing sell off and the privatisation of British Coal.

Key dates for your activist diary:
Tues 30th Nov: Education Activists Network Meeting 6pm at The Picket, 61 Jordan St, Liverpool, L1 0BW
Tues 30th Nov: Merseyside Right to Work Organising Meeting 7.30pm at The Pilgrim, 34 Pilgrim Street, Liverpool, L1 9HB

Thurs 2nd Dec: Visit to Liverpool by Michael Heseltine.  Demonstre at 11.30am at Liverpool Chamber of Commerce, 1 Old Hall Street, Liverpool, L3 9HG and at 7pm at the BT Convention Centre, Kings Dock, Waterfront, Liverpool L3 4FP

Sat 11th Dec:  Merseyside Against the Cuts March and Rally (organised by Public Sector Alliance and Merseyside Trades Council) Assemble at the Metropolitan Cathedral 11am
If you know of any other events, lobbies, meetings, disputes etc. please let us know.  Also, if you have photos of any events that Right to Work has supported please email them so they can go on our blog.

When they say cutback, we say fightback.

Below is a statement released after last weeks South Sefton Trades Council meeting,

Hello everyone, last nights meeting made the Echo today – see

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/local-news/2010/11/24/protest-over-sefton-council-job-cuts-gathers-momentum-100252-27704507/ 

Of course we are campaigning against all the public service cuts, not just those in the council, but its good coverage nonetheless. The Champion newspaper have also said they will report on the meeting too.

What we agreed last night was to support the PCS planned demonstration at Bootle Strand. We had representatives from local branches of Unite (at least 2 branches), NASUWT, PCS, RMT and FBU (any others) and would expect those branches to actively support this demonstration, and would also request the Sefton Unison branch throws its weight in too. We are awaiting a date for this now.

We know of the planned closure of St Wilfrids and two library closures were mentioned last night, my suggestion is that we invite the people involved to speak at this demonstration too.

There was also strong support for Sefton TUC (the ‘trades council’) to play a co-ordinating role locally, which is what we exist to do. Local union branches can send delegates, who are expected to represent their own unions policies so we work very much on consensus, with a suggested programme of work from the national TUC.  Branches can delegate up to 10 delegates, the fee is £15 and send a cheque and delegates names to Sefton TUC c/c South Sefton Welfare Rights/UWC, Sally Eccleston Memorial Hall, Moss Lane, Litherland, L21 7NW. Obviously with a new influx of delegates the local trade union movement will be a stronger position to play the co-ordinating role that is expected of us here with the community.

Other suggestions we have had involve calling a meeting with the Labour councillors to support them to vote against council cuts, clearly they will be under a lot of pressure and will need backing to oppose this. Also we have one of only 6 Lib Dem MP’s in the North West within our borough, John Pugh in Southport, and his surgery may be a good place to lobby.

What does everybody else think?

Best wishes

Danny

Photos from the Lib-Dem Conference protest in Liverpool

PICKET NICK CLEGG

23 November:

No Tuition Fees

No to Workfare

Venue: Kings Place, Hall 190 York Way, London, N1 9GU

Tuesday 23 November 2010

Assemble 6pm
Called by Right to Work

The Lucy Young and the Scott Trust, in association with Unlock Democracy, will host Nick Clegg at the Hugo Young Lecture on the 23^rd November.

The event has been advertised on the basis that it will be “an excellent chance for members to quiz the Deputy Prime Minister”.

Right to Work will be there to make sure Nick Clegg can hear loud and clear what we think of him.

The Con-Dems are launching an onslaught of cuts and privatisation and a vicious ideological attack on our welfare state.

It is vital that wherever the Tories and their Lib-Dem lapdogs go, they are hounded and forced to face up to the widespread rage at their blanket attack on the working class movement.

Yesterday Iain Duncan Smith was held back for an hour after speaking in Camden by a protest of local residents, Right to Work and London Campaign Against Poverty campaigners, enraged at the Con-Dems’ attempts to make the unemployed work for free.

Come along to the protest against Clegg and join the fightback!

Merseyside UAF Novmber newsletter

Merseyside Unite Against Fascism Newsletteruafliverpool@googlemail.com / 07908 202 006

1. Report - National Demo & Carnival 6 November London2. Merseyside UAF meeting, Tuesday 23rd November
3. Police drop Bolton conspiracy charges against UAF leaders

4. National Appeal for funds

 

1. Report - National Demo & Carnival 6 November London

Link to video of demo :

http://uaf.org.uk/2010/11/video-6-november-antiracist-march-and-carnival/

Full report : http://uaf.org.uk/2010/11/exuberant-demo-says-no-to-racism-fascism-islamophobia/

Text :

Saturday 6 November 2010

Exuberant demo says no to racism, fascism and Islamophobia

Around 5,000 black, white and Asian people marched through central London today in a lively and spirited demonstration against racism, fascism and Islamophobia.
The march, called by UAF and Love Music Hate Racism, was supported by the TUC and the Muslim Council of Britain. But it was the presence of large number of young people, school and university students that gave the demo its exuberant character.

Our streets

Marchers showed their opposition to the fascist British National Party and the racist thugs of the English Defence League – which particularly targets Muslims.
The demonstrators chanted: “Whose streets? Our streets” and “EDL, go to hell – take your Nazi mates as well” as the march wound out of the West End and down Whitehall to Westminster.
Along with the chanting, many danced along behind carnival floats, with music from artists supporting LMHR.

Stand together

At Westminster, the protesters heard from a range of speakers, including George Galloway, Hugh Lanning, deputy general secretary of the PCS civil service union and poet Zita Holbourne of Black Activists Rising Against Cuts.
UAF officer and LMHR national coordinator Martin Smith told the crowd that it was important for antiracists and antifascists to mobilise against the EDL. He said:
There’s a debate in the antifascist movement right now. And it’s one that says: ‘If the English Defence League comes to your town or city, stay at home, close your doors, ignore them and they’ll go away.’ I say that’s rubbish, that’s absolue rubbish. Because if you give an inch to a fascist, they’ll come back for more and more.
First it will be the veil, then it will be the mosques, then it will be your trade unions, the socialists, then LGBT people… so we do not give an inch. When they attack one community, we stand together, united.
He urged everyone to join a national mobilisation against the EDL in Luton in February.

Caught the mood

There was more music, featuring artists including radical rapper Lowkey and up-and-coming young band Flow Dem, who caught the mood with their song Racial Ting: “It’s not a racial ting, it’s a white black mixed race Asian ting!”
Speaking after the demo, UAF joint secretary Weyman Bennett said:
Thousands of people turned out on a very lively demo to show they reject racism, fascism and Islamophobia. Now we need to build on that success, building bigger local groups and setting up new ones around the country.
We will also be mobilising for a national counter-demonstration against the EDL in Luton on 5 February 2011.

2. Merseyside UAF Meeting - Wednesday 29 September 7pm, Tuesday 23rd November
Casa, Hope Street, Liverpool

This meeting is open to all Merseyside Unite Against Fascism supporters and members, so please come along.  This is your opportunity to get involved and have your say on how we should move our campaign forward at a local level.

3. Police drop Bolton conspiracy charges against UAF leaders

The police have dropped all charges against leading UAF members Weyman Bennett and Rhetta Moran arising from the demonstration against the racist English Defence League in March.

Unprecedented charges

Weyman, who is joint national secretary of UAF, and Rhetta, joint secretary of Greater Manchester UAF, were both arrested on the demo and faced potential charges of conspiracy to incite violent disorder – an offence that could carry a substantial jail term.
Antifascist campaigners argued that this unprecedented use of conspiracy laws was a threat not just to the right to protest against fascism, but could curtail the right to any public protest in a serious blow to civil liberties.
But all charges against the two have now been dropped.
Weyman said:
This is a victory for antifascists and for the right to protest. It is a disgrace that police were prepared to use such charges against antifascists and antiracists. I’m proud to say that the threat of these charges has not deterred any of us from continuing to stand up against the EDL – racist thugs with fascists in their midst.
>> For more, see justice4bolton

  

4. National Appeal for Funds - Help Us Raise £60,000
 UAF has been at the forefront of campaigning against the EDL - we have organised 30 mobilisations against them over the past year. We have also campaigned against the fascist BNP, printing and distributing millions of leaflets and getting out on the knocker to beat back the Nazis at the elections.

But all this costs money - we urgently need YOUR help to keep up the campaign against the racists and fascists!

Go to uaf.org.uk/join-donate and sign up as a solidarity member to make a regular contribution.
  

In solidarity

Michelle Smith

Merseyside Unite Against Fascismuafliverpool@googlemail.com / 07785265298
 

LIVERPOOL PROTEST AGAINST UNIVERSITY CUTS AND FEES

	Wednesday, November 24 · 12:00pm - 11:00pm

This event is part of a national walkout and day of action against the proposed massive raise in tuition fees, cuts to education and removal of EMA by the coalition govenment.


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National walkout event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=134751449911080


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We encourage all students (be it school, college or university) to walk out of lessons on Wednesday 24th November and join the protest in the city centre. Any non-students who agree that education is a right not a privilege should also join the protest.

When they say cut back, we say fight back!!

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Download leaflet: http://anticuts.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/walkout.pdf
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Rally outside Guild of Students, Mount Pleasant - SPEAKERS TBC - followed by a march through the city centre to the Town Hall.
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This is a peaceful protest.

STOP THE RACIST ENGLISH DEFENCE LEAGUE IN PRESTON

On Saturday 27 November the racist English Defence League intend to hold a protest in the centre of Preston. Where the EDL march and assemble unopposed they have launched attacks on minority and Muslim communities. In Dudley, Nuneaton and Stoke their presence led to vicious assaults on people because of the colour of their skin.

We cannot let this happen in Preston.

We are calling on all anti-racists and all anti-fascists to join us in the centre of Preston to celebrate our multi-cultural city, to assert our commitment to anti-racism and to let the EDL know they are not welcome here.

Join the Protest

No to the EDL, No to Racism, No to Fascism and No Islamophobia 

Saturday 27 November

12 noon

Preston Fish Market (covered market, Burley St)

(called by Preston Unite Against Fascism & Preston Trades Council)

We are taking a coach to this important protest

Coach from Liverpool : 10.30am Hardman Street, Liverpool

Tickets are £12 waged, £5 unwaged.

Please contact us directly at liverpool@uaf.org.uk or phone 07908 202 006 to book seats asap.

Additional tickets will be in News from Nowhere, Bold Street from Saturday.

“The world is a dangerous place to live in; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.”
Albert Einstein – refugee from Nazi Germany

peace, love and unity
Alan
Merseyside Unite Against Fascismliverpool@uaf.org.uk
07908 202 006http://www.uaf.org.uk/