After angry scenes this weekend in Whitehall nearly four thousand people have signed up to attend a Radical Left General Assembly facilitated by Brick Lane Debates.
Location: Logan Hall – UCL Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H
Date: 6 PM, Thursday 14th May 2015
Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1588733401408239/
The general election result has created a political crisis. A hard-right regime has taken power with the support of barely one in three voters and one in four of the adult population.
The reaction has been massive. Thousands have joined anti-Tory protests and more than 50 thousand are planning to attend an anti-austerity demonstration in June.
An alternative political space has opened up for something that is truly democratic, bottom-up, radical and based on mass action from below.
Brick Lane Debates stated that “the goal for Thursday’s assembly is to create a new joined-up radical network or movement to counter the next five years under the Tories’ as they implement austerity cuts, harsher policing and the dismantling of the Human Rights Act.“
Initial ideas include:
• A movement made up of groups which keep their independence but come together to support each other’s campaigns and plan action.
• A movement rooted in real, localised campaigns and wider struggles, especially those in which the people themselves organise to fight back against injustice and oppression.
• A movement united on every issue – on unemployment and unaffordable rents, on fracking and climate change, on tuition fees and student debt, on the gentrification of our communities, on the privatisation of the NHS, on the violence and racism of the police, on the criminalisation of the homeless and the poor, and so many more.
• A movement controlled democratically, from below, with a loose federal structure which can accommodate an expanding number of independent radical groups and assemblies within it.
• A movement united around broad anti-capitalist aims, these to be formulated by the constituent groups, but agreed by general assemblies.
• A movement which aims to grow and unite people in active struggle against the system.
A press desk will be located in the reception at the 20 Bedford Way entrance to IoE.
Press Contact: Katya Nasim
Email : bricklanedebates@gmail.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/brickldebates
