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London MAYDAY Weekend

London Mayday Weekend | 20.04.2006 06:25 | Mayday 2006 | Social Struggles

Below is a list of events & activities in London over the Mayday weekend.

At The Square -
The Square Social Centre
21 Russell Square
London WC1
(nearest tube: Russell Square or 10 min walk from Euston Station)

SATURDAY APRIL 29th:
1PM - 4PM
ANARCHISM 06 CONFEREENCE
A 2 day conference celbrating the positive ideas of anarchism past present & future.
email:  anarchism06@hushmail.com
website: www.londonsocialcentre.org.uk

4PM - 6PM
IWW (industrial Workers of the World) WORKPLACE ORGANISING TRAINING
with Adam Lincoln, IWW dual carder and experienced trade unionist.
(organised by the IWW)

6PM -7.30PM
80th anniversary commemoration of the 1926 GENERAL STRIKE.
Presentation: The bitter lock-out, Days of hope in the General Strike, and the betrayal by the TUC - Dave Douglass, NUM & Wobbly veteran with cookies and Zapatista coffee
(organised by the IWW)
email:  londoniww@iww.org
website: www.iww.org.uk

8PM - 1PM -
Benefit Night At The Sqaure
Fundraiser for the sacked gate Gourmet workers, & the Anarchism 06 Conference
featuring live bands, d.js, film screening of Land & Freedom, food & zapatista coffee (!)


SUNDAY APRIL 30th:
ANARCHISM06 CONFERENCE DAY 2
Discussion Day
1PM - 6PM
discussions based on current issues along the following themes:-
- workplace struggles
- community struggles
- social struggles
- international struggles

(including: autonomous workers struggles with Gate Gourmet, Laing O'Rourke workers & tube cleaners; the current uprisings in France from those who have been involved; as well as the recent Broadway Market occupation in Hackney against gentrification, the significance of Mayday in political struggles & the future of social centres)
email:  anarchism06@hushmail.com
website: www.londonsocialcentre.org.uk

The Square Social Centre
21 Russell Square
London WC1
(nearest tube: Russell Square or 10 min walk from Euston Station)



MONDAY MAY 1st:
Autonomous workers bloc on the TUC March
meet: Clerkenwell Green, London EC1
(nearest tube: Farringdon)
website: www.ourmayday.org.uk

Critical Mass - Meet up on Monday 1st May, at 11 a.m., under Waterloo bridge (outside NFT).

London Mayday Weekend