https://www1.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/03/307776.html EURO MAYDAY (LONDON Call) - A Eurowide rebellion for a life of dignity When? Sunday May 1st, MAYDAY Where? 30 cities all over Europe What? Street Parades, actions, reclamations MAYDAY is International workers day, born out of the struggle for an 8 hour working day in 1886. Over 100 years later our lives are still taken up by the world of work. Even more so as the work generated by Capitalism has become more flexible with casualisation (temporary contracts, flex time, part time, no time!) forcing us to adapt to the point where it's hard to tell when, where or even if we are working. Around Europe people call this new working and living condition "precarity" and over the past few years the EUROMAYDAY parade has been growing in Europe, attracting thousands of angry temps, pissed off part timers, immigrants, sex workers, unemployed and casualised onto the streets to demand new social rights. We propose, in London on 1st Mayday 2005, to actively encourage & organise creative action in the commercialised areas once common land, in the supermarkets where our life is spent working and consuming, in the expensive restaurants where we are excluded from, the shopping districts, the airwaves, the cinemas, transport. Mayday 2005 will be a free day where we choose what we want to do and collectively attempt to achieve it. This may be only one day but we have whole lives to reclaim. What better day to start than MAYDAY!
hi there being in the socialist party, the cambridge socialist party branch will be joining one of the londons socialist branchs for a mayday demo , its for kids too so have will be having activities and speakers from the party..should be a great day to mix with other branch members as well as showing that the working class and their values can not be taken away with out a protest.... lovenpeace from saff
Which is good, because it means we can have a day out in London before our values are taken away Hehehe, sorry, always worth fighting every step of the way. We do need to go further than legal sanitised protest marches though. They're important, but not enough. I think direct action is also very important. Not isolated cases of direct action, which may make a statement, but don't make much of an impact, but mass organised direct action and civil disobedience, I think, are an important direction for the movement....
hi there very true world wide activity demos and strikes for a halt all at the same time {where possible } to raise human beings thoughts and feeings towards our race and this planet. and the state of mind as the movements progress in to mass participation...forwarding human thought and feelings as this moves into {what is needed to do ,within the change to follow all the activity through............} to inhance our standards of living world wide is a slow progress due to faults within the system and ourselves.but this can change as we change when allowed.... under a capitalists world ,change is near impossilbe unless ie you win the lottery,you win this ,or that ,you gain money for much higher education you work every hour we have awake,you work with fear of closer or low pension... which is not allowing for change ie morgage bills loans food clothes entertainment etc all need your hard earned cash.. so you plod on unchanging really paying for old age on after death as debts can be left behind for future generations...as seen with world debt.. until we break the world for profit every activity is important in a way.. to make a stand, hoping people may notice many protests about how our world is being run and ruined for money... and change will come, slowly it will come. lovenpeace from saff
Couple more links: http://www.wombles.org.uk/actions/mayday2005.php http://www.euromayday.org/ http://www.precarity.info/
