Events

For more information on this event or details about booking a stall please contact: Liz Screen

All day music, stalls, food, bar - lots to do for all the family.  A day of politics, music and good company at the Hay Festival.

Socialist Labour Party Workshops

10.00 am  Land Ownership In A Socialist Society - Trish Bowen (President SLP Wales)

11.30 am  A Policy For Youth - Chris Herriot

2.15pm  On The Verge - anti war film.

In 2004 a group of peace campagners in Brighton began to bang pots and pans outside their local arms manufacturers EDP MBM, to protest at their part in the Iraq war.  This has now grown into the Smash EDO Campaign which has been the subjest of large scale police operations which has questioned the right to protest in the UK.

For further details:  On The Verge

5.00pm  SLP Public Meeting to be addressed by Arthur Scargill.

Musicians so far booked are Chris Butler,  Aidan Jolly,  Claire Mooney  and The Cardiff Reds Choir.

Stalls booked to date (subject to final confirmation);  Socialist Labour Party, Cymru Cuba, Cymru CND, Palestine Solidarity Campaign/Cor Cochian, Columbian Solidarity, Friends Of The Earth, Nicaraguan Solidarity, Campaign To Take Utilites Back Into Public Ownership, Superscript, Warren And Pell, Morning Star Support Group, On The Verge.

Lots to do for the kids.

More details of timing, events and stall holders to follow.

Socialist Labour Party Public Meeting, Wrexham June 7th.

We are very honoured to be hosting a public meeting with the main speaker being Ana Lucia Pinzon, a trade union leader from Columbia. Ana is in the UK on a speaker tour orgainised by the Justice For Columbia Group.

Ana Lucia Pinzon is the leader of the Colombian public sector workers’ trade union FENALTRASE. She is the most senior female trade unionist in Colombia and has been at the forefront of anti-privatisation struggles for thirty years. FENALTRASE is the third largest union in Colombia and has had numerous of its members assassinated in recent years.

An economist by training, Ms Pinzon worked as an auditor before becoming a fulltime union officer. As well as her union work she is also active in human rights campaigns. In 2001 she was the victim of an assassination attempt during which she was shot twice in the back.

The meeting will be held at the War Memorial Hall in Wrexham, on Saturday June 7th, starting at 2.30pm.

Other speakers have been invited and will be confirmed later.

For more information on this event or details about booking a stall please contact:Liz Screen