The Socialist 17 October 2012
Build a 24-hour General Strike

We want a 24-hour general strike!
Southampton anti-cuts councillors form new council group
Meetings after 20th October TUC demonstration
Academies: march to defend education on 20 October
Stop the gas price hike - Nationalise the utilities!
Osborne's 'shares' plan threatens rights
Unions must build the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC)
Poll tax: When organised mass action defeated the Tories
Youth Fight for Jobs fortnight of action 13-28 October
Fight for a socialist and internationalist alternative to the crisis-ridden EU
Solidarity with Miners in South Africa
US elections: And the winner is... Wall Street!
Pakistan: Workers die as profit put before safety
Hands off our NHS! - Victory in Gloucestershire
Stop the far right from 'uniting' on 27 October
Stop health robbery in Sherwood Forest
Invest in caring - we're worth it!
Amnesty International staff take strike action
Bus drivers: We need shorter hours!
Hospital staff in Stockton and Hartlepool threatened with worse terms and conditions
The Socialist - Help us build it with the 20-20-20 plan!
Fight back against austerity - support the Socialist Party
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Meetings and conferences that will be discussing the next steps
(In city alphabetical order)
Barnsley
Barnsley Socialist Party: Building the fightback against austerity
Wednesday 24th October 2012
For venue details contact Angie Waller on 07986 619 310
Birkenhead
Birkenhead Socialist Party: How can we build a 24-hour general strike?
What is the socialist alternative?
Monday 22 October 2012
7.30pm
Stork Hotel, 41 Price Steet, Birkenhead CH41 6JN
Birmingham
Birmingham Socialist Party: Bring down the Con-Dems! Why we need a 24-hour general strike
Monday 22 October 2012
7:30pm
Conference room in The Briar Rose, Bennett's Hill, Birmingham
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Midlands NSSN (shop stewards network) conference
Saturday 17 November 2012
12.00-16.00
Unite offices, 211 Broad Street Birmingham B15 1AY
Speakers (personal capacity): Joe Simpson POA assistant general secretary, Lee Barron CWU Midlands regional secretary, Kevin Greenway PCS national executive, Dave Auger UNISON, Nick Harrison FBU,Linda Taaffe National SecretaryBrighton
Brighton Socialist Party: Towards a General Strike
Thursday 25th October 2012
8pm
Phoenix Community Centre, Brighton
Speaker: Glenn Kelly
More info from 07894 716095, [email protected]
Bristol
Bristol NSSN and Bristol Socialist Party: Where do the trade unions go next?
Tuesday 23 October 2012
7.30pm
Cheltenham Road Library, Bristol BS6 5OX
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Bristol East Socialist Party: What the Socialist party stands for
Wednesday 24 October 2012
7.00pm
The Stag and Hounds Pub (upstairs room), 74 Old Market Street, Bristol, BS2 0EJ
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Bristol South Socialist Party: Building the fightback after 20 October
Thursday 25 October 2012
7.45pm
Bedminster Library, Bedminster Parade, BS3 4AQ
Caerphilly
Fight the NHS cuts! For a 24-hour doctor-led A&E service for the new hospital in Ystrad Fawr.
Wednesday 24th October 2012
7.30pm
Tower room, Twyn Community Centre, Caerphilly
Cambridge
Cambridge Socialist Party: Building the fight against austerity
Wednesday 24 October 2012
7.30pm
University Centre, Granta Place, Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1RU
Canterbury
East Kent Socialist Party: Towards a General Strike
Friday 26th October 2012
7.30pm
Friends Meeting House, 6 The Friars, Canterbury CT1 2AS
Cardiff
Cardiff Central Socialist Party: The next steps after the TUC demonstration
Thursday 25 October 2012
7.30pm
The Gower, 29 Gwennyth Street, Cardiff CF24 4PH
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Cardiff South Socialist Party: The next steps after the TUC demonstration
Wednesday 24 October 2012
7.30pm
The Clifton, 1 Clifton Street, Cardiff CF24 1PW
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Cardiff West Socialist Party: The next steps after the TUC demonstration
Thursday 25 October 2012
7.30pm
Cardiff Bus Sports and Social Club, Tudor Street, Cardiff CF11 6AD
Carlisle
Carlisle Socialist Party: After the TUC demo, what now?
Monday 22nd October 2012
7pm
Club 35, 35 Lowther St, Carlisle
Chester
Chester Socialist Party: How can we build a 24-hour general strike?
What is the socialist alternative?
Wednesday 24 October 2012
7.30pm
Custom House, Watergate St, Chester CH1 2LB
Chesterfield
Chesterfield Socialist Party: Fight all cuts! For a 24-hour general strike!
Monday 29th October 2012
7.30pm
Chesterfield Library, Beetwell St, Chesterfield
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Chesterfield Socialist Party: Lessons of Clay Cross council's defiance
Friday 9th November 2012
7pm
Clay Cross Social Centre, Market Street, Clay Cross, near Chesterfield
40 years since Clay Cross Council defied the Tory government, this meeting will discuss the lessons for the battle against cuts today
Speakers: A former Clay Cross councillor; Alex Gordon, RMT president; Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary; Becci Heagney, Youth Fight for Jobs
Coventry
Coventry Socialist Party: Is socialist change possible? How would it work?
Thursday 25th October 2012
7.30pm
Coventry SQ Club, WhiteFriars Street, Coventry City Centre CV1 2DT
Main speaker: Dave Nellist
Darlington
Teesside Socialist Party: Building the alternative to austerity
Monday 29th October 2012
7.30pm
Hole in Wall pub, Market Place, Darlington, DL1 5PT
For more info contact [email protected]
Derby
Derby Socialist Party: Where next after 20th October demo?
For a 24 hour general strike!
Wednesday 24th October 2012
7.30pm
Ye Olde Dolphin Inn, 5A Queen Street, Derby DE1 3DL
Dewsbury
Huddersfield Socialist Party: The fight to save the NHS
Wednesday 31st October 2012
7.15pm
Venue: Dewsbury, details to be confirmed
For information, please ring Mike 07887 668 740
The campaign to save Dewsbury hospital is now in full swing. This meeting is a chance to stand back and look at how the NHS evolved and how we can win this fight.
Doncaster
Doncaster Socialist Party: Building the fightback against austerity
Wednesday 24th October 2012
7-30pm
Railway Inn, West St, next to train station, Doncaster
Dundee
Dundee Socialist Party: Building for a 24-hour general strike against austerity
Tuesday 23rd October 2012
7.30pm
Room G3 Dundee Univeristy Tower Building Perth Road, Dundee
Edinburgh
Edinburgh Socialist Party: Building for a 24-hour general strike against austerity
Thursday 25th October 2012
7pm
Phoenix Bar (downstairs), Broughton Street, Edinburgh
Exeter
Exeter Socialist Party: What the Socialist Party stands for
Wednesday 24 October 2012
7.00pm
Exeter Community Centre, 17 St David's Hill, Exeter EX4 3RG
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Exeter Socialist Party: Fight austerity; but what is the socialist alternative?
Tuesday 30th October 2012
7.30pm
Exeter Community Centre, St David's Hill, Exeter
Glasgow
Glasgow Socialist Party: Building for a 24-hour general strike against austerity
Monday 22nd October 2012
7:30pm
Premier Inn, Montrose Street, 187 George street, near city chambers, Glasgow G1 1YU
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Scotland NSSN (shop stewards network) conference
Saturday 27th October 2012
11am - 4pm
Glasgow Unison offices, 84 Bell Street, Glasgow
Gloucester
Gloucestershire Socialist Party: Building the fightback against austerity
Wednesday 24 October 2012
7.30pm
Barton & Tredworth Community Centre, 199 Barton Street, Gloucester
Harrogate
Harrogate Socialist Party: Fighting austerity in the Eurozone
Wednesday 14th November 2012
7.30pm
Harrogate Catholic Club, Robert St, Harrogate
Huddersfield
Huddersfield Socialist Party: Call a 24 hour general strike!
Wednesday 28th November 2012
7.15pm
Irish Centre, Fitzwilliam St, Huddersfield
For information, please ring Mike 07887 668 740
Leeds
Leeds Socialist Party: Kick out the Con-Dems, For a 24 hour General Strike
Monday 22nd October 2012
7.30pm
Cosmopolitan Hotel, 2 Briggate, Leeds LS1 4AE
Speakers include: Mike Forster (Socialist Party National Committee) and local students and trade unionists
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Yorkshire & Humber NSSN (shop stewards network) conference
Saturday 24th November 2012
10am-4pm
Cosmopolitan Hotel, 2 Lower Briggate, Leeds LS1 4AE
Leicester
Leicester Socialist Party: After the TUC demo - building the fight against austerity
Tuesday 23 October 2012
7.30 pm
Richard III, Highcross Street, Leicester
Lincoln
Lincoln Socialist Party: Where next after 20th October demo?
Thursday 25th October 2012
7.30pm
Croft Street Community Centre, Lincoln LN2 5AX
Liverpool
Liverpool Socialist Party: Building for a general strike after 20th October
Tuesday 23rd October 2012
7.30pm
Casa, Hope Street, Liverpool
Llanelli
Llanelli and West Wales Socialist Party: Fighting for a socialist future
Tuesday 23rd October 2012
19:30
Stamps, The Old Post Office, John Street, Llanelli
Ring Rob on 07541145108 for more information.
London central
London NSSN (shop stewards network) public meeting
Wednesday 24th October 2012
7pm
ULU, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HY
Speakers include: Chris Baugh - PCS Assistant General Secretary, Steve Hedley - RMT Assistant General Secretary, Suzanne Muna, Unite housing branch secretary
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Socialism 2012 - a weekend of discussion and debate organised by the Socialist Party
Includes sessions on: 'Lessons of the public sector pensions struggle' and 'Where next for the fight against austerity?'
Saturday 3rd and Sunday 4th November 2012
ULU, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HY
Main rallies at Friends Meeting House, opposite Euston station with speakers including Bob Crow (general secretary of RMT), Matt Wrack (general secretary of FBU) and Peter Taaffe (general secretary of Socialist Party)
This is a national event, welcoming all, from those who are already a trade union or anti-cuts activist to those who are interested in finding out more about fighting back, or more about socialist ideas.
For tickets and more info go to www.socialism2012.org.uk
London north & east
Hackney & Islington Socialist Party: Why is there an economic crisis?
How Marx explained economics
Wednesday 31st October 2012
7.30pm
Olive Café (downstairs), 18 Stoke Newington High St, London N16
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Haringey & Enfield Socialist Party: What next after the TUC demo?
Tuesday October 30th 2012
7.30pm
Day Mer centre (North London Community House), 22 Moorefield Road (Near Bruce Grove Station), London N17 6PY - look out for 'Cafe Life' sign in the street outside if you haven't been before.
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Tower Hamlets Socialist Party: Building the fight against austerity
Wednesday 7th November 2012
7.30pm
Oxford House, Derbyshire St, London E2
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Waltham Forest Socialist Party: What's the alternative to cuts, racism and capitalism?
Thursday 1st November 2012
7.30pm
William Morris Community Centre, Greenleaf Road, London E17
London south
Greenwich Socialist Party: Where next after October 20th?
Thursday 1st November 2012
7.30pm
Glyndon community Centre, 75 Raglan Road, Plumstead, SE18 7LB
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Lambeth & Southwark Socialist Party: How far can capitalism go in enforcing austerity?
Thursday 25th October 2012
7.30pm
Top Room, Bonnington Centre, 11 Vauxhall Grove, Vauxhall, London SW8 1TD
Speaker: Bill Reed
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Lewisham Socialist Party: What next after 20 October?
Defend public services! Defend the NHS!
Thursday 25 October 2012
7.30 pm
All Saints Community Centre, corner of Monson Road and New Cross Road, London SE14 5DJ.
Speakers: Helen O'Connor, healthworker, Unison (personal capacity) and Lee Vernon, PCS (personal capacity)
London West
Hillingdon Socialist Party: What next after the TUC demo?
Thursday 25th October 2012
7.30pm
Friends Meeting House, Uxbridge
Manchester
North West NSSN (shop stewards network) public meeting
'Next steps to a 24-hour general strike'
Saturday 27th October 2012
1pm-3pm
Town Hall Tavern (upstairs), 20 Tib Lane, Manchester City Centre M2 4JA
Speakers include: Steve Acheson (Unite construction National Industrial Sector Committee and Sparks rank & file) and Alex Davidson (PCS North West vice-chair)
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Manchester Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) rally: For an MP who opposes all cuts
Tuesday 13 November 2012
7.30pm
"The lounge" meeting room in the Methodist Central Hall, Oldham Street, off Piccadilly Gardens in the city centre, Manchester M1 1JQ
Speakers include Dave Nellist, former Coventry socialist MP and councillor and Alex Davidson, TUSC Manchester parliamentary byelection candidate
Mansfield
Mansfield Socialist Party: Where next after 20th October demo?
Wednesday 24th October 2012
7.30pm
Ladybrook Community Centre, Ladybrook Lane, Mansfield
Middlesbrough
Teesside Socialist Party: Building the alternative to austerity
Monday 5th November 2012
7.30pm
Cleveland Trade Unionists and Unemployed Workers' Resource Centre, Marton Road, Middlesbrough TS1 2DU
For more info contact [email protected]
Newcastle
Newcastle Socialist Party: What next after the TUC demo?
Wednesday 24 October 2012
7.30 pm
Bar Loco, 22 Leazes Park Road, Newcastle NE1 4PG
Newport
Newport Socialist Party: Building the fight against austerity
Thursday 1 November 2012
6pm
Pen and Wig, Stow Hill, Newport, NP20 1JD
Northampton
Northampton Socialist Party: Building a socialist alternative to austerity
Thursday 25th October 2012
19:00 - 21:00
Vernon Terrace Community Centre, Stockley Street, Northampton NN1 5HE
Nottingham
Nottingham Socialist Party: Where now after TUC March? For a 24-hour general strike
Monday 22nd October 2012
7.30pm
ICC (YMCA), 61B Mansfield Road, Nottingham NG1 3FH
Plymouth
Plymouth Socialist Party: Build for the 24-hour General Strike
Tuesday 23 October 2012
7.00pm
Plymouth Social Club, 38-39 Tavistock Place, Plymouth PL4 8AX
Pontypridd
RCT Socialist Party: Building the fight against austerity
Wednesday 31 October 2012
7.15pm
Otley Arms, Forest Road, Trefforest, Pontypridd CF37 1SY
Poole
Dorset Socialist Party: What the Socialist Party stands for
Wednesday 24 October 2012
7.30pm
Poole Labour Club, 22 Wimborne Road, Poole BH15 2BU
Preston
Preston Socialist Party: How can we build a general strike?
What is the Socialist Alternative?
Wednesday 24th October 2012
7pm - 8.45pm
Stanley Arms, Lancaster Road, Preston
Reading
Reading NSSN (shop stewards network) meeting - Build a one day general strike!
Wednesday 24th October 2012
7.30pm
Reading International Solidarity Centre, room 1, 35-39 London Street, Reading RG1 4PS
Rotherham
Rotherham Socialist Party: What next after the TUC demo?
Sunday 21st October 2012
7-30pm
Rotherham Trades Club, Greasborough Rd, Rotherham S60 1RB (near bus & rail stations)
Salford
Salford Socialist Party: For a one-day general strike!
Wednesday 24th October 2012
7.00 pm
New Oxford (back room), Bexley Square, off Chapel Street, Manchester M3 6DB
Sheffield
Sheffield North Socialist Party: What next after the TUC demo?
Tuesday 23 October 2012
7-30pm
Old Queens Head, Pond Hill, Sheffield S1 2BG
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Sheffield South Socialist Party: Busting the Tory myths, Q&A session.
Wednesday 24 October 2012
7-00pm
White Lion, London Road, Sheffield S2 4HT
Shrewsbury
Shrewsbury Socialist Party: Building the anti-cuts movement after the TUC demo
Tuesday 23 October 2012
7.30pm
Royal Oak Pub, Coton Hill, Shrewsbury SY1 2DZ
Stevenage
Stevenage Socialist Party: What now after the march?
Monday 22nd October 2012
8pm
Bedwell Community Centre, Bedwell Crescent, Stevenage SG1 1NA
Stoke
Stoke Socialist Party: The next steps after 20th October
Thursday 25th October 2012
7.30pm
Sacred Hearts Social Centre, corner of Regent Rd and Downey St, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent ST1 3BY
Speakers: Andy Bentley - Socialist Party Organiser plus a rep from the NUT
Stroud
Gloucestershire Socialist Party: Fighting austerity - march together & fight together
Wednesday 24 October 2012
7.30pm
The Exchange, Brick Row, Stroud, GL5 IDF
Swansea
Swansea Socialist Party: Fighting for a socialist future
Thursday 25th October 2012
19:30
Dyfatty Community Centre, Chapel St, Swansea SA1 1NB
Swindon
South West NSSN (shop stewards network) public meeting
Saturday 27th October 2012
12noon - 4pm
Great Western Hotel, Station Road, Swindon
Wigan
South & West Lancs Socialist Party: How can we build a 24-hour general strike?
What is the socialist alternative?
Thursday 1 November 2012
7pm
The Anvil Pub, Dorning St, Wigan, WN1 1ND
Winchester
Hampshire Socialist Party: Opposing the Cuts
Wednesday 7th November 2012
7.30pm
University of Winchester, Medecroft, Room 16.
Worcester
Worcester Socialist Party: What next after 20th October?
Monday 22 October 2012
7.00pm
The Eagle Vaults, Friar Street, Worcester
York
York Socialist Party: Building the fightback against austerity
Wednesday 24th October 2012
7-30pm
Golden Fleece, Pavement, York YO1 9UP
This version of this article was first posted on the Socialist Party website on 16 October 2012 and may vary slightly from the version subsequently printed in The Socialist.
In this issue
Fighting the cuts
We want a 24-hour general strike!
Southampton anti-cuts councillors form new council group
Meetings after 20th October TUC demonstration
Socialist Party feature
Socialist Party news and analysis
Academies: march to defend education on 20 October
Stop the gas price hike - Nationalise the utilities!
Osborne's 'shares' plan threatens rights
Socialist Party feature
Unions must build the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC)
Socialist history
Poll tax: When organised mass action defeated the Tories
Socialist Party youth and students
Youth Fight for Jobs fortnight of action 13-28 October
International socialist news and analysis
Fight for a socialist and internationalist alternative to the crisis-ridden EU
Solidarity with Miners in South Africa
US elections: And the winner is... Wall Street!
Pakistan: Workers die as profit put before safety
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
Hands off our NHS! - Victory in Gloucestershire
Stop the far right from 'uniting' on 27 October
Stop health robbery in Sherwood Forest
Invest in caring - we're worth it!
Socialist Party workplace news
Amnesty International staff take strike action
Bus drivers: We need shorter hours!
Hospital staff in Stockton and Hartlepool threatened with worse terms and conditions
The Socialist Party
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