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May Day Demo Manchester

Manchester No Borders | 08.05.2008 09:16 | Health | Migration | Workers' Movements

Manchester No Border attends May Day demo



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Manchester No Borders alongside many others participated in the annual 'Mayday march', this year held on Monday 5 May.

"Health Care for All" was one of the central demands of this year's May Day march which was organised by the Trades Union Council and campaigners for asylum rights.

A recent decision by Judge Mitting ruled that all refused asylum seekers must be considered 'ordinarily resident' in the UK and that therefore charging them for NHS care is unlawful. However, despite this ruling there are reports that refugee people still face refusal or charges for health care. And the ruling has been appealed by the government so it will go to the House of Lords.

There were over 200 people on the demonstration who marched around the city centre before attending a speaker event in Manchesters Peace Gardens.

Manchester No Borders
- e-mail: manchesternoborders@riseup.net
- Homepage: http://www.manchesternoborders.org.uk

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Whose banner

08.05.2008 11:00

says 'Personal Responsibility Now'

Either a very wierd slogan or I haven't read it properly!

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Great Pictures

08.05.2008 12:02

Great to see the pictures. I think it shows the benefit of putting a lot of effort into a demonstration. We had AF members from Manchester, Preston, Sheffield, Leeds and Hereford there. I reckon that around a quarter of the march were anarchists or friends of anarchists. The result was that passers by saw us as a credible alternative, that the organisers had to acknowledge our presence and that we got to have a speaker on the platform at the end. In other words a useful propaganda exercise and on a march which we generally felt sympathetic too as well.

knightrose
mail e-mail: manchester@af-north.org
- Homepage: http://www.af-north.org

Good to see asylum issues at the forefront at Mayday

08.05.2008 14:36

In addition to the aforementioned anarchist flags & banners, it's really good to see asylum seeker issues at the forefront of Mayday marches. In Nottingham, for the last few years, the Mayday Organising Committee is an off-shoot of the Nottingham Refugee Campaign Group.

For full report and pics from Nottingham, including the No Borders Nottingham banner, please see:
 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2008/05/398328.html

It's clearer than ever that the anarchist message against the very concept of states and borders must be central to any new workers' movement, in order to counter the rise of nationalist oppositions to globalisation which are so divisive as well as racist.

No Borders, No Nations, Stop Deportations!!

Anarchist in No Borders Nottingham
- Homepage: http://www.nobordersnottingham.org.uk

Good one in Glasgow too...

08.05.2008 19:49

Glasgow Mayday:  http://scotland.indymedia.org/node/10225

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