Leeds Socialist Workers Party

National unity demonstration against fascism and racism, Saturday 17 November

We are experiencing the biggest rise in support for fascism, the far right, racism, Islamophobia and Antisemitism since the 1930s. In Britain fascists and racists are mobilising on a scale not seen for decades. We must unite against this threat, which is why we are calling a national demonstration against fascism and racism on Saturday 17 November in London.

The demonstration is initiated by Stand Up To Racism, co-sponsored by Unite Against Fascism and Love Music Hate Racism, and is supported by Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott and Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell amongst others.

The recent rise in attacks by the far right has created a real thirst for a mass anti-racist mobilisation in the spirit of the Anti Nazi League. Now is the time to take to the streets.

http://www.standuptoracism.org.uk/national-unity-demonstration-against-fascism-and-racism-saturday-17-november/

Leeds Stand Up to Racism will be organising transport down – email sutrleeds@gmail.com for more details – fb page here:

https://www.facebook.com/events/336927150212916/

How do we stop the Far Right? Leeds Stand Up To Racism Forum

Tuesday 4 September, 6.30pm Rosebowl, Portland Crescent – fb event here

https://www.facebook.com/events/225886121410567

The German Revolution of 1918
Thursday 23 August 7pm Swarthmore Centre, LS3 1AD

for background reading see here

The Labour Party and the struggle for socialism
Thursday 30 August 7pm Swarthmore Centre, LS3 1AD

What’s behind gun and knife crime?
Thursday 6 September 7pm Swarthmore Centre, LS3 1AD

Imperialism in the Middle East – Turkey, Syria and the Kurdish struggle for independence
Thursday 13 September 7pm Swarthmore Centre, LS3 1AD

Palestine, anti-semitism and defending Jeremy Corbyn
Thursday 20 September 7pm Swarthmore Centre, LS3 1AD

Hosted by Leeds SWP – All welcome

Leeds SWP Branch Meeting on the Brexit and the Tories’ crisis…

The Irish border – A relic of Imperialism

Thursday 26 July 2018 7:00pm
The Swarthmore Education Centre, 2-7 Woodhouse Square, Leeds LS3 1AD
All welcome

Background reading: The hard truth about the border in Northern Ireland
https://socialistworker.co.uk/art/46215/The+hard+truth+about+the+border+in+Northern+Ireland

For more information on this protest in Leeds on Saturday 7 July see here and fb event here

Leeds SWP meeting – Fascism – what is it and how to fight it – Thursday 12 July 7pm, Swarthmore Centre LS3 1AD all welcome

On Saturday 7 July supporters of Tommy Robinson plan to return to Leeds to whip up division and spread racism and Islamophobia. What is left of the Fascist EDL will be joined by extremists from other splinter racist and Fascist groups. Join Leeds Stand Up To Racism and Leeds Unite Against Fascism in central Leeds assembling 12.30pm Leeds City Art Gallery / Victoria Gardens – […] […]

https://en-gb.facebook.com/events/259323607968184/

via Fascist EDL not welcome in multicultural Leeds on 7 July — Leeds Stand Up To Racism — Leeds Stand Up To UKIP

(credit: Dave Goodfield) Many thanks to the over 150 or so people who came today (Sunday 10 June) to support the inspiring Beeston together for peace and unity community vigil organised by Leeds Stand Up to Racism to show solidarity with those targeted by the firebombings of the local mosque and Sikh temple. You can […]

via Beeston stands united against racism — Leeds Stand Up To Racism

Join the York Stand Up to Racism counter-protest – Saturday 9 June 11 am York Minster, 1a Chapter House St, YO1 7HH York

https://www.facebook.com/events/400371513798416/

via Stand Up to Tommy Robinson supporters in York this Saturday 9 June — Leeds Stand Up To Racism

Commons, keep well your harness.  Trust you no gentlemen. Rise all at once.

• Bill posted in Leeds, January 1537, following the defeat of the Lincolnshire Rising and the Pilgrimage of Grace

The modern countryside is the result of centuries of environmental change, but also brutal class struggle. While Wat Tyler’s Peasants’ Revolt is well known, and Jack Cade and Robert Kett are remembered for their rebellions, there are countless lesser known struggles.  Modern agriculture, the food we eat and how it is produced, is a direct result of these historic struggles. Martin Empson’s new book rescues these forgotten moments of history and places them in the context of the political and economic changes that have taken place over the last 700 years.

Book launch – Kill all the Gentlemen’: Class struggle and change in the English countryside

with author Martin Empson

Thursday 14 June, 7pm, Swarthmore Centre, 2-7 Woodhouse Lane, LS3 1AD

Hosted by Leeds SWP – all welcome

https://www.facebook.com/events/225067691587827/

https://bookmarksbookshop.co.uk/view/46096/%2527Kill+all+the+Gentlemen%2527+Class+struggle+and+change+in+the+English+countryside

Please do all you can to support and encourage everyone you know to come if they can. As most of you will know , Leeds Teaching Hospitals have put together a proposal to move 2,300 staff out of the NHS into a subsidiary company, largely to capitalise on VAT savings but also to open up […]

via Urgent Leeds Teaching Hospital protest 6th June, 1pm, Brotherton Wing — Leeds Keep Our NHS Public

Remembering 1968 in Leeds

Five people who were politically active in Leeds and elsewhere in 1968 will (briefly) reflect on their experience in order to stimulate a discussion about the relevance of the May ’68 events today.

Speakers: Sarah Perrigo, Lou Lavender, Tom Steele, Max Farrar and Mike McGrath.

Thursday 31 May, 7pm, Swarthmore Centre, 2-7 Woodhouse Square, Leeds, LS3 1AD.  All welcome, no need to book in advance, free but donations to cost of room welcome.

1968 – The year the world caught fire 

In 1968 protests against the old order swept the world.  From the general strike in France to the Tet offensive in Vietnam, from the Black Panthers in the US to the student occupations in Paris, the movement was contagious.

As the year progressed, people increasingly gained a sense of their own collective power, and the vulnerability of the ruling classes that had previously seemed unstoppable. Suddenly everything was up for grabs.

But this is not a nostalgia trip. We still live in world scarred by war, exploitation and bigotry.  1968 still has a lot to teach us today.  Come and join the debate about the lessons of that tumultuous year and hear what radical politics in Leeds in 1968 was like with a panel of activists who were there!

The meeting is jointly sponsored by the Ford Maguire Society, International Socialism Journal and Taking Soundings.

http://www.leedsforchange.org.uk/l4c_event/remembering-1968-in-leeds/