People Before Profit will be taking part in the May Day Rally and March in Derry tomorrow, Saturday 30th April 2011. We call on everyone to join us.
Meet in the People Before Profit Office in Shipquay Place beside Cafe Del Mundo at 12.30. The rally will then begin outside the front of the office in Guildhall Square at 1pm.
Here is the text of the May Day leaflet we will be distributing at the Rally:
A fighting chance to reject the cuts agenda
Eamonn McCann could win an Assembly seat
Eamonn McCann has a very realistic chance of winning a seat in the Assembly on 5 May, provided that everyone who wants to challenge the Westminster and Stormont cuts gives him their number 1 vote.
Meet in the People Before Profit Office in Shipquay Place beside Cafe Del Mundo at 12.30. The rally will then begin outside the front of the office in Guildhall Square at 1pm.
Here is the text of the May Day leaflet we will be distributing at the Rally:
A fighting chance to reject the cuts agenda
Eamonn McCann could win an Assembly seat
Eamonn McCann has a very realistic chance of winning a seat in the Assembly on 5 May, provided that everyone who wants to challenge the Westminster and Stormont cuts gives him their number 1 vote.
Eamonn got almost 3,000 first preference votes at last years' Westminister election. The quota for an Assembly seat last time was around 5,800. The final seat was won with a total of 4,400.
If Eamonn is able to increase his vote from last year and pick up preferences he will be in the running for a seat.
Every vote for Eamonn is a vote against the rotten cuts agenda proposed by the Tories at Westminster and imposed by Stormont. It is a vote for an alternative that demands that public services and jobs are protected and the bankers and the rich made to shoulder the burden of the economic crisis they caused.
A radical campaigner and trade unionist like Eamonn winning a seat would be a powerful message to the next Executive that there will be opposition to the cuts. It would give heart to every trade unionist and cuts campaigner. That is what is at stake on 5 May. We urge every trade union activist to do all they can to encourage people to vote for Eamonn McCann on 5 May.
Union leader urges voters to back McCann
Jim Barbour of the Fire Brigades Union has appealed to trade unionists to give Eamonn their vote:
"On behalf of the Fire Brigades Union in Northern Ireland I would offer our wholehearted support to the campaign to get Eamonn McCann elected to the Assembly on 5 May.
"We are convinced that the Assembly needs a strong, alternative left-wing voice to challenge the cuts agenda at Stormont and we know that Eamonn would make a great difference to the whole political debate, inside and outside Stormont, if he was to be elected.
"The FBU, locally and nationally, reject the whole idea that working people should be made to pay the price of a bankers recession and we are prepared to defend our own service and public services by any means necessary. We know that Eamonn and the People Before Profit Alliance will do all they can to support us in that struggle, as they have always done in the past.
"In particular, we know that Eamonn is strongly in favour of the abolition of Thatchers' anti-trade union legislation, which the Executive parties at Stormont have within their power to abolish but, tellingly, have made no attempt to.
"Eamonn also has a proud record of seeking to unite working class people across the sectarian divide and we strongly believe that this is a crucial foundation for the future."
"Yours in solidarity,
Jim Barbour, National Executive member, Fire Brigades Union, Region 2, Northern Ireland"
If Eamonn is able to increase his vote from last year and pick up preferences he will be in the running for a seat.
Every vote for Eamonn is a vote against the rotten cuts agenda proposed by the Tories at Westminster and imposed by Stormont. It is a vote for an alternative that demands that public services and jobs are protected and the bankers and the rich made to shoulder the burden of the economic crisis they caused.
A radical campaigner and trade unionist like Eamonn winning a seat would be a powerful message to the next Executive that there will be opposition to the cuts. It would give heart to every trade unionist and cuts campaigner. That is what is at stake on 5 May. We urge every trade union activist to do all they can to encourage people to vote for Eamonn McCann on 5 May.
Union leader urges voters to back McCann
Jim Barbour of the Fire Brigades Union has appealed to trade unionists to give Eamonn their vote:
"On behalf of the Fire Brigades Union in Northern Ireland I would offer our wholehearted support to the campaign to get Eamonn McCann elected to the Assembly on 5 May.
"We are convinced that the Assembly needs a strong, alternative left-wing voice to challenge the cuts agenda at Stormont and we know that Eamonn would make a great difference to the whole political debate, inside and outside Stormont, if he was to be elected.
"The FBU, locally and nationally, reject the whole idea that working people should be made to pay the price of a bankers recession and we are prepared to defend our own service and public services by any means necessary. We know that Eamonn and the People Before Profit Alliance will do all they can to support us in that struggle, as they have always done in the past.
"In particular, we know that Eamonn is strongly in favour of the abolition of Thatchers' anti-trade union legislation, which the Executive parties at Stormont have within their power to abolish but, tellingly, have made no attempt to.
"Eamonn also has a proud record of seeking to unite working class people across the sectarian divide and we strongly believe that this is a crucial foundation for the future."
"Yours in solidarity,
Jim Barbour, National Executive member, Fire Brigades Union, Region 2, Northern Ireland"