Worcester – standing room only for socialist meeting on Palestine

Stuart Davies, Worcester Socialist Party

All seats were taken at the local community centre room we hired for our Socialist Party public meeting about the situation in Palestine. And it was great to welcome five brand new people too.

The focus was Israeli state terror, and this summer’s invasion in Jenin. The meeting location was in ‘Cathedral’ ward, where we have grown support for the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) candidates over recent years.

To publicise the event, we visited local shops and community centres. And a number agreed to display our Socialist Party poster for the event. We then had different teams from Worcester Socialist Party help with leafleting the area over the weekend building up to the meeting.

As a result of our meeting and discussion – which continued outside long after the community centre was locked up – we have commitments from new people, and some of their friends, to joining our next weekly meeting.