[Campaignforrealdemocracy] Right to Work Oct 3rd March in Birmingham

[Mark Barrett]

We need to get our vision into this resistance process. Paul Brandon who is
chair of the campaign is a Project 2012/CRD and Democracy Village supporter.
Is anyone from CRD / DV / Project 2012 up for joining me to flier at
the march? Should be a nice day out :-)!

Up the Revolution

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Why "I will be outside on 3 October, demonstrating with the Fight for the
Right to Work <http://sites.google.com/site/righttoworkconference/>campaign"..
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/sep/22/vince-cable-no-marxist

" This attack on our civil liberties should come as no real surprise. It’s
the inevitable outcome of this coalition government’s rise to power. Its
very nature is fundamentally undemocratic.
Up to the day of the election the Lib Dems said they wanted delays in cuts,
but then ditched this policy for power.
The Tories made no mention of 25 to 40 percent cuts until they were in
government. And their cobbled-together “coalition agreement” has never been
mandated by the people.
The coalition is sustained through the peddling of myths, like the “need” to
reduce the deficit. The country was able to build the NHS and comprehensive
education while carrying a burden of debt following the Second World
War—which was greater than now.
This assault amounts to a coup d’état in front of our very eyes—as cover to
push through “their” vision of society. "
http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=22504

*PRESS RELEASE: for immediate release*
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*OUTRAGE AS POLICE CONFIRM PROTESTERS ARE BARRED FROM MARCHING PAST TORY
CONFERENCE*

A mass protest over spending cuts is to be denied the right to march past
the Conservative Party conference on Sunday 3 October in Birmingham. Despite
a high profile campaign, West Midlands Police have denied marchers access to
the part of Broad Street in Birmingham city centre which goes past the
conference centre. Police will seal off the area round the conference with
fixed barriers.

Organisers made an arrangement with the police and Birmingham council to
march past the conference, but this has now been withdrawn. In addition
Birmingham council which has threatened to sack 26,000 of its workers unless
they accept pay cuts is also demanding thousands of pounds for suspending
parking on a handful of streets on Sunday—a day when parking is free.

March organiser, Chris Bambery, secretary of the Right to Work Campaign,
says,  “Even immediately after 9/11, and in the aftermath of the Iraq
invasion, protesters were allowed to march past the governing party’s
conference. Last year Right to Work marched past the front entrance of the
Labour conference in Brighton.

“’Now it seems that David Cameron will be meeting in something more
resembling central Baghdad’s Green Zone. I would ask what has he got to be
scared of? This follows the restrictions on protest imposed at the Lib Dem
conference last weekend.

“’There is still time for the police to rethink their decision, and I urge
them to do so. But whatever happens we will march in our thousands on Sunday
3 October and we will ensure Tory delegates can hear us behind their
security barriers.”

For further information contact:
For details/interviews please ring Chris Bambery, Secretary of the Right to
Work Campaign on 07986 085162 or Michael Bradley 07973 640057 or Paul
Brandon on 07749 481600.
For details of the protest and list of supporters of the statement
supporting the right to march past the conference go to
www.righttowork.org.uk
The protest is backed by the PCS (civil service workers), CWU (communication
workers), Aslef (rail workers), UCU (lecturers), and NUJ (journalists)
unions as well as the National Union of Students.
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