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After the Election . . . Join the Resistance! - Sat 15 May

14th May 2010

The LRC’s post-election meeting this Saturday, After the Election . . . Join the Resistance!, co-sponsored by CLPD, Convention of the Left, CWU, Labour Briefing, NUJ, Save the Labour Party, Right to Work and the Socialist Campaign to Stop the Tories and Fascists.

The meeting will be a discussion forum: lead off speeches and then as much time for discussion as possible – there’s many important issues for the left to discuss arising from the election, pressure from the markets, the new coalition government, and the vacancy at the top of the Labour Party.

Download the meeting flyer and the timetable for the day.

John McDonnell MP, LRC Chair, said:

“The role of the labour and trade union movement now is to build a broad anti-cuts coalition, to mobilise to protect our community against the coming attack on public services, wages and conditions, pensions and welfare benefits and to create links with the campaigns that are being waged across Europe and elsewhere in the world.

“We need to get back to our local communities to prepare for the defence of every service that comes under attack, every classroom teacher about to be laid off, every clinic or hospital facing closure and any group of people about to lose their state benefits.”

Read John McDonnell’s comments in full in his Morning Star article Fightback Starts Now