Come and join us for a day of activities to celebrate International Workers Day – this Saturday 4 May 2024
11.30 am: Assemble at International Brigades Memorial, South Park OX4. Demonstrators will assemble for a wreath-laying at the memorial to Oxfordshire people who served in the International Brigades in defence of the Spanish Republic in the 1930s.
12.15: March to Bonn Square
13.00: Rally at Bonn Square – speakers include Gawain Little, General Secretary of the General Federation of Trades Unions and a former President of ODTUC
14.00-16.30: Lunch and workshops, New Road Baptist Chapel, Bonn Square [provisional workshop schedule].
Workshop topics include:
· How local communities can fight for their water
· Labour movement history: Oxford’s Socialist Chimney Sweep; Picket lines, Pints and Pit Camps! Solidarity with Maerdy Women in the 1984 Miners’ Strike; and The Miners’ Strike in Oxford 1984-5
· Our buses: Who should own them?
· No migrant prison in Kidlington! Stop Rwanda deportations!
· And there will be Radical Singing with the Didcot Red Kites group.
Organised by Oxford and District Trades Union Council
Contact: Pól Ó Ceallaigh 07867 935 694 secretary@odtuc.org.uk
or Bill MacKeith bmackeith@gmail.com 01865 558145