Noah Eden, Sheffield Socialist Party
In Sheffield, we have been doing more campaign stalls to spread the message of the Socialist Party. We have done stalls on five of the last seven days, including three stalls up and running on Saturday 17 September.
One thing could not be clearer: the public agree with the need to fight back against the government and to fight for workers’ rights. They also realise that neither Labour nor the Tories can deliver that change.
The temporary postponement of the RMT and CWU strikes has not weakened the support for their causes nor the momentum they are building. Plenty of people are still signing our petitions in support of those strikes, raising the need to strike together and a general strike.
In the last week, 50 people bought a Socialist paper from us on the streets in Sheffield, to read a socialist perspective on the current situation, rather than just buying into the capitalist media’s attacks on striking workers. And they’ve donated £150 to us too.
It’s been great to get out and chat to people, putting forward the need for socialist change, and meeting people interested in finding out more about the Socialist Party, many of whom have actually joined the Sheffield branch. People are clearly fed up with our current system, and we need a genuine alternative to Keir Starmer’s Labour and the capitalist system.
