27th June Leeds No Sweat G8 meeting
Martin Ohr | 17.06.2005 09:37
We all want to make poverty history. But which policies can end world poverty, and who can be expected to implement those policies?
G8 Mobilisation Meeting, Monday 27th June Leeds Civic Hall 7-30pm
G8 Mobilisation Meeting, Monday 27th June Leeds Civic Hall 7-30pm
Leeds No Sweat:
Who Will Make Poverty History?
G8 Mobilisation Meeting
Monday 27th June 2005, 7-30pm Leeds Civic Hall
Speaker: Mark Osborn
We all want to make poverty history. But which policies can end world poverty, and who can be expected to implement those policies?
This discussion is not just about what we demand, but who we think will act. The G8 leaders might implement a few reforms, but the G8 leaders will not abolish poverty. The leaders have not ended poverty within the G8 states, and they are not going to end it in Africa.
So who will? We are for a world where solidarity is a guiding principle, not profit. We want to see the power of the transnational bosses and the bankers broken and replaced by political, social and economic democracy.
It is urban workers and rural labourers who have forced better wages in Korea, stopped privatisations in Bolivia, and fought rural poverty in India and Brazil. The organised working class, in alliance with the urban and rural poor, is the force that can end poverty.
Who Will Make Poverty History?
G8 Mobilisation Meeting
Monday 27th June 2005, 7-30pm Leeds Civic Hall
Speaker: Mark Osborn
We all want to make poverty history. But which policies can end world poverty, and who can be expected to implement those policies?
This discussion is not just about what we demand, but who we think will act. The G8 leaders might implement a few reforms, but the G8 leaders will not abolish poverty. The leaders have not ended poverty within the G8 states, and they are not going to end it in Africa.
So who will? We are for a world where solidarity is a guiding principle, not profit. We want to see the power of the transnational bosses and the bankers broken and replaced by political, social and economic democracy.
It is urban workers and rural labourers who have forced better wages in Korea, stopped privatisations in Bolivia, and fought rural poverty in India and Brazil. The organised working class, in alliance with the urban and rural poor, is the force that can end poverty.
Martin Ohr
e-mail:
martin@hillohr.co.uk
Homepage:
http://www.nosweat.org.uk
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Other speakers invited
17.06.2005 12:02
Leeds No Sweat
Great - if you want to join AWL front group.
18.06.2005 17:18
When all the Trot sects set up their anti-capitalist fronts, the tiny and ridiculous AWL jumped for 'No Sweat'. But predictibly they failed to build a broad and consistent campaign against sweatshop labour. And they have faild to unite with others - 'No sweat' is treated as their own private property.
Watch them now try to wheel it out, give it artificial resperation, dust it down and use it as their anti-capitalist face for the g8. Another seperate version of 'No Sweat' is similarly sometimes used by the WPG - another tiny and stupid trot sect.
But the AWL have their own peculiar niche within the TrotSect market place. They are supporters of western imperialism, continued occupation of Iraq, Israeli state zionism and the Labour Party. I'd Steer clear!
Bazza K
decide for yourself
18.06.2005 19:40
The leeds no sweat group has a very wide membership and is highly active in the city
Martin Ohr
Oxfam speaker confirmed
21.06.2005 09:25
Martin Ohr