Right to Work has called a national demonstration outside the Tory Party annual conference on 3 October. David Cameron’s party are meeting in Birmingham. We will assemble at 12 noon and, after a rally, the march will set off at 1pm.
The demonstration is supported by three national trade unions, the PCS, NUJ and UCU, the Labour Representation Committee and a number of local trade union and campaign bodies. Labour MPs Jeremy Corbyn MP & John McDonnell MP, the general secretary of the PCS, Mark Serwotka, Romayne Phoenix of the Green Party, Dr. Jacky Davis from Keep Our NHS Public, Linda Burnip, campaign co-ordinator Local Housing Allowance Reform Group, a Greek trade unionist and Portuguese Left Bloc MP, Jorge Duarte Costa have already agreed to speak at the pre-march rally.
Over the coming weeks supporters of RtW should push for the widest possible backing for this protest, organise local public meetings to build it with a wide array of speakers and get transport organised to Birmingham.
This protest can be a massive demonstration to Con-Dem cuts and austerity.
Other sponsors of the march are London Region FBU, London & Eastern Region Unite,
Unite Fujitsu UK Combine Committee, Unite IT & Communications National Sector Committee, Unite (TGWU Scotland Section), Scottish Housing Associations & Co-ops Branch, Unite Wembley/Hendon Branch, Tyneside Engineering Branch Unite; Birmingham, Ealing, Islington, South Gloucestershire, Wakefield, Sheffield & St Helens NUT Associations; PCS Central London Valuation;
Sheffield GMB S38 Branch;
Manchester, Sheffield, Preston, Barnsley, Cambridge, Huntingdon & St Neots, Plymouth, Camden, Leeds & Nottingham, Dorchester/Weymouth & Portland Trades Councils; South Central No. 1 Branch CWU, CWU Mount Pleasant Branch, Cambridge & Stevenage CWU; London Region UCU, Barnsley College UCU, Sheffield University UCU, Liverpool Metropolitan University UCU; Lambeth Unison, Lewisham Unison, Oxford Unison Health Branch; Southend on Sea BC Unison, Sandwell Unison, City and County of Swansea Unison, Portsmouth City Unison, Kirklees Unison, Rotherham Unison Health Branch, Sheffield Hallam University Unison Branch, Unison London Fire & Emergency Planning Authority, UNISON Mid Yorkshire NHS Trust; Liverpool NUJ;
South Yorkshire Brigade Committee FBU; Sheffield Green Party;
Cambridgeshire Against the Cuts; Local Housing Allowance Reform Group;
Westefield and Halfway Tenants and Residents Association; Stop the War Coalition, Hackney Stop the War Coalition; Defend the Whittington Hospital Coalition; Defend Council Housing.
