Socialists can't ignore the issue of farming and agriculcure. Many working class PORTSMOUTH Socialist communities live in these Alliance was set up in areas. Over 70% of Britain is January through the comused for agriculture. 50 bined initiative of the local years ago 1 million workers SWP and a number of indewere employed in the indus- pendent socialists including try (excluding farmers) but myself. now it is down to just under In February, John Molyneux, a lading SWP Many on the right, such as member and vchy well the NFU are calling for known and established smaller farms to link up activist in the city, was together to form "farming elected as our parlamentary co-operatives". But their candidate and i was clected idea of co-ops are far from as his election agent. torun strictly for profit and the same as ours. iney arc mored to holding weekly Since that time we have under the control of the open metings and leafletfarmers and not the workers ting and petitioning in the main shopping centies on Today five million pople Saturdays. in Britain suffer from extreme poverty. A study by berween Portsmouth SA and Breadline Europe says they other camnains suca as People and Planet and the local campaign in defence of asylum seckers. The SA is also supported by a number of Iraqi Kurdish comrades who regularly participate in our metings and activities. I he main locus or out activities has bocome the demand for the renationaltsation of the railway system.
Station protest This has mainly centred on use of the railway unions' petition but this was followed up yesterday evening (Monday April 20) with a protest at the main rallway station.
We 'occupied" the station for a good balf an hour with placards and slogans There are positive overlaps demanding renatonalisation and, unsurprisingly, were well received by the majority of passengers coming off trains.
However, there were rather fewer of these than anticipated, as if to prove our point (not that it needs proving) all the trains from ondon were subject to signilscant aciys.
And this was on the day when it was announced that the private profiteers who own South West Trains have been given the contract to run our trains lor sears to come!
Now that the clection has been postponed our main task is to ensure we do not lose momentum by using the extra time to lake our campaigns and demands into the wider community and build the vote fog the Socialist Alliance on June 7.