Nottinghamshire Mayday 2010 Newswire Archive

There was a new edition of the local Anarchist Federation's rebel bulletin, The Nottingham Sparrow, available at Mayday. For the latest on fighting the cuts and class struggle (not to mention the gossip on Jon Collins) it's well worth a read.

Chesterfield Mayday is traditionally one of the largest celebrations of International Workers’ Day in the region if not the country. Although substantially smaller than at its peak, the event continues every May bank holiday weekend.

This year, organisers of Nottingham Mayday have faced the full force of Notttingham City Council’s bureaucratic machinery, and had to jump through any number of legal and financial hoops. Despite these obstacles, the event went ahead on Saturday May 1st with perhaps a couple of 100 people turning up to celebrate International Workers' Day.

With Mayday coming soon the Nottingham Free School decided to arrange an open discussion on some of the issues surrounding the day. This discussion took place at the Sumac last Sunday night and is scheduled to be the first in a series which will take place on the final Sunday of each month. The hope is to create a regular space in which we can learn collectively and share our ideas and understandings of issues which strike us to have a particular relevancy. On Sunday we hoped to discuss the nature of class struggle today, as well as the different forms that resistance to capitalism can take, and this was in many ways a success.