Sunday, 10 April 2011

Don't Waste This Chance!

Last Wednesday I joined students at Queens University in protest at the education cuts that they and their lecturers face.  With my supporters I gave out the following leaflet which is advertising my organising meeting.  Come and join us!
DON’T WASTE
THIS CHANCE!!

Are you opposed to the cuts in education and in health?  Are you opposed to increased fees, reduction of services and plans to do away with the EMA?  Do you want to stop the cuts?
If you have answered yes to any of these questions this time should be a golden opportunity to fight back.  On May 5 there will be an election – a great chance to register your protest and organize against the cuts.
But there is a problem.  All the parties in the Executive are in favour of cuts and with £4 billion worth of them their little squabbles over where exactly they will cut will be irrelevant.
Yet these parties still expect to get our votes!!  Why are they so arrogant?  They are arrogant because there is no opposition.  They are all in the government.  And they are arrogant because of sectarianism – they expect us to vote for “our side” without us worrying about their actual policies
ALTERNATIVE
But now you have a chance to vote for an alternative and campaign against the cuts and against sectarianism.  A socialist candidate, Brian Pelan, is standing in West Belfast and he is opening up his campaign to all those opposed to the cuts.  He is calling on potential supporters to join him in an open meeting to organize his campaign for the Assembly elections and build a movement that will continue when the elections have come and gone. 
Brian is not only opposing the cuts and putting forward an alternative.  He is not only opposing bigotry and the sectarian rules by which the Stormont Assembly works.  He is opposing the whole sectarian system that has taken 20 years to create and in few short years has united all the parties in cuts in corporation tax for big business and cuts in living standards and services for everyone else.
Brian, a supporter of the socialist group Socialist Democracy, is opposing the blackmail that we cannot afford an opposition,  that we cannot defend our livelihoods and we cannot fight for our rights and freedom because we must support this sectarian state. Join with Brian:
FIGHT THE CUTS
OPPOSE SECTARIANISM and
FIGHT FOR A SOCIALIST ALTERNATIVE
Join him at the inaugural meeting to organize his campaign at the Glenowen  Inn , Glen Road Belfast, at 7pm on Wednesday, April 13.

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