CoR Conference: the next step after 30th June Strike success

CoR Newsletter 22: Debate the way forward after strikes, pickets and protests send an anti-cuts message to the Tory led Coalition

Some of the 30,000 protestors at the central London demonstration on Thursday 30th June

30 June – What a Success!

Well done to everyone who took strike action yesterday and well done to their unions. The strike was an enormous success, more than 80 per cent of schools were closed or affected as were a multitude of other places of work: airports, benefit offices, job centres, museums and galleries and others. Teachers and lecturers were joined on the marches and rallies by their students and PCS members marched in their many thousands

Demonstrations took place throughout Britain with more than 20,000 marching in London. From Brighton to Glasgow and beyond tens of thousands took to the streets.

CoR gave the strikes every possible support. We produced 20,000 copies of a special broadsheet for the day and thousands of placards and leaflets.

In Glasgow CoR hired a double decker bus and toured the city distributing the broadsheets and encouraging all to support the strikers. In London, Newcastle, Doncaster, Leeds, Sheffield, York, Wakefield, Cardiff, Manchester and elsewhere our volunteers found a warm response to our ‘NO CUTS’ message.

CoR national conference: 9 July

University of London Union 10am-5pm

Our second National Conference will be the first opportunity since the pensions strike to take stock discuss the way forward. Plenary speakers will include PCS General secretary Mark Serwotka together with Zita Holbourne from the PCS executive [and BARAC] and NUT executive member Alex Kenny. All played important roles in ensuring the success of June 30th. Dot Gibson, John McDonnell MP, Lindsey German, Medhi Hasan, Wendy Savage, Paul Mackney and Clare Solomon will also speak.

The conference is a resolutions based conference and a new National Council will be elected.

There will be resolutions on the ‘One Million Green Jobs’ campaign, the General Strike, Structure of CoR, Nuclear Power, Festival of Resistance, Anti-War, Union work, Youth and Students, People’s Assemblies and one from the outgoing Steering Committee.

The conference will also have a number of workshops and these will include: The fight against privatisation, Crisis in the Eurozone and CoR International work, Trades Unions, The Hardest Hit: Women, Ethnic Minorities and Disability, Greening the economy and Youth and Students.

Only CoR members and delegates from affiliated organisations will be eligible for election to the National Council but the conference is open to visitors.

Please register via the CoR website as soon as possible.

Andrew Burgin ( CoR Secretary ) 07939 242229
Sam Fairbairn 07872 481769

 

 

 

 

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