Time To Go To Another Demo

Manchester Branch of the SPGB, and other Socialist Party members, will be in attendance at today's national demonstration in Manchester, which has been called by the Stop the War Coalition to coincide with the start of the Labour Party Conference.

Entitled 'Time To Go', the demos organizers are agitating around the slogan 'Drive out Blair… and all he stands for!'

Papers will be sold, bogus petitions will be signed, a little bit of the sixties will be recreated with a "die-in", and the aforementioned SPGBers will be giving out the following leaflet. (The text of the leaflet being their very own recreation of the 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s . . .you get the drifted self-deprecation.)

The American equivalent of the StW Coalition, the RCP dominated The World Can't Wait, have their plans in place for their very own day of action on October 5th where "papers will be sold, bogus petitions will be signed, a little bit of the sixties will be recreated with a "die-in"", and at the New York demo an SPGBer will be giving out leaflets . . . erm, excuse the cynicism. Demos are much of a muchness for me these days, whether they be in the States or in Britain, though it should be stated for the record that the radical drummer and samba bands in New York have a much better repertoire than their counterparts back in Britain.

Today will be a sad day for many of the demonstrators, as it will be their final opportunity to sing at a national demo that song that has been ringing in my ears these last nine years 'cos I always seemed to find myself behind, in front of or alongside a Citizen Smith version of a barbershop quartet at these demos, who thought it was a jolly wheeze to sing over and over and OVER again:

Tony Bliar, Tony Bliar

He's a right-wing wanker.

I bet they will miss him when he finally leaves office next year.