The licensing committee of Dundee city council have
made it impossible for the working class people of
Dundee to have a realistic Mayday march and rally. The
proposal put forward jointly by the SSP in Dundee, the
Socialist Students of Abertay and Dundee Universities
and the local TUC was to have a march gathering at
11.am at Hawk hill at the back of Dundee Uni sports
hall and then have a demonstration which would walk
through the high street culminating in a rally in the
city square. This has been done many times in Dundee
for various protests and rallies over the years but,
the unholy alliance of Lib-Dems, Labour, SNP and
Tories have conspired to prevent it this year.

They rejected the application put forward for an 11.am
start and opted instead for the preposterous time of
8am citing safety and the inability of the police to
patrol both that and a football match in the afternoon
(the fact that every other major city in Scotland dis
having a Mayday rally at this time did not seem to
interest them). The members of the SSP who went in
front of the committee were not allowed to put their
case in any meaningful or effective way and not a
single councillor spoke up for the rights of freedom
of expression or freedom of speech.

The real reason for the denial of the 11am set-off
time is because the council don't want any voice to be
given to the Nursery Nurses that they are in dispute
with. They don't wish the public to be given the
chance to show support for Nursery Nurses, workers
world-wide and show their contempt for neo-liberalism.
Dundee council does not wish to give a platform to
anything which may smash the illusion that they don't
represent working-people in any meaningful way
The author invites your comments.