Friday 13 MayLaunch of Socialist Film Club with a showing of classic Vietnam documentary Hearts and Minds, introduced by Jonathan Neale, 7pm, University College London, Gower Street WC1 (Euston Square tube). Price £5/£3. Phone 020 7637 1848 for tickets.
Newham Respect has tried to connect with the many groups that the Westminster political classes don’t reach.
Hundreds of Respect supporters from across London and around the country converged on east London last Saturday. They formed an army of campaigners for the general election.
Two billboard posters appeared in Bristol last week which highlight how the three main political parties support the continuing illegal occupation of Iraq. They were put up by Guerrilla Art.
Leading trade union and labour movement figures in Newham, east London, released a letter last week calling on people to vote for Respect at the general election.
Respect canvassers in Newham are reporting a political shift on the doorsteps of the east London borough. New Labour’s stranglehold on the borough is being loosened as people turn to Respect.
A teacher in Bradford North asked her pupils to name the parties contesting the general election. After a long pause one student volunteered the name of the Labour Party.
"A vote for anyone else will let the Tories in" has been a theme of Labour’s national campaign. That’s desperate anywhere — but it reaches new depths in South Wales’s Blaenau Gwent, the seat centred on Ebbw Vale.
Independent polls in Tottenham, north London, indicate that Respect candidate Janet Alder is now the number one challenger to David Lammy, the sitting Labour MP.
"There are totemic seats where a non-Labour result would be a delight: Oona King losing Bethnal Green & Bow to Respect’s George Galloway."John Harris, author of So Now Who Do We Vote For?
I believe I was the first figure in British public life to call Tony Blair a liar over the war.
Next month marks the 60th anniversary of the defeat of Hitler’s Nazi regime. But May will also see over 100 candidates standing for the fascist British National Party (BNP) in the general election.
