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United for Mayday Clerkenwell Green (Farringdon tube) March to rally at Trafalgar Square, 3pm

Socialist Outlook no. 54, April 2002 · 192 words

the day. Brighton, Northampton, Manchester & Medway. Be there! 12 noon, Wednesday 1 May For the first time, trade unionists and anti capitalists will march together on Mayday from Clerkenwell to Trafalgar Sq. This is also the first time a march will go to Trafalgar Square while Parliament is sitting. May Day is building up to be another incredible event. South East, CWU, UNISON and PCS regions are actively backing May Day and urging The Stop the War Coalition has adopted I May as the next anti war mobilisation. In the their members to attend. Palestinian groups are organising a big contingent. A Palestinian theatre group are staging scenes from a play called Islamaphobia at Clerkenwell Green before the march starts. Coaches are coming so far from Bristol, agreements.

Joe Craig's analysis focuses around a number of penetrating questions:

To what extent was transnational investment to linked to the partnership deals?

• Were the claimed benefits for workers delivered?

• Did the union movement itself, as opposed to a narrow layer of the top of the union bureaucracy, improve its negotiating position and industrial rights?

The answers to these quesOutlook

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