SUBSCRIBE to resistance i The European Social Forum is coming to London on October 14-17. Thousands of activists from a myriad of campaigns, NGO's and trade unions from across Europe - and some from beyond will descend on the venues in north and Central London.
For three days there will be the opportunity for activitsts to link up with others involved in the same projects, to gain inspiration for others successes and to plan for new initiatives.
On Sunday the event will close with a final demonstration against the war through central London.
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beginning to really build here in Britain if a little later than we would have hoped.
A successful meeting was held in Congress House in July to mobilise trade unionists in London addressed by number of key trade unionists including Annique Coupe from France as well as Alex Gordon from the RMT, the TGWU's Tony Woodley and others.
In other areas union branches have been organising - in the North East both Newcastle and Gateshead UNISON > branches have organised major meetings to www.socialistresistance.net
convince people that they should come and link up with people fighting privatisation and cuts elsewhere. With news such as the German mobilisations defend of the 35 hour week increasingly in the press, it isn't a hard battle to win. This will be the European Social Forum - the first was in Florence two years ago and the second in Paris last year. The European Forums Brum of the World Social T Forum process which started in Porto Alegre in On Oct 17 the
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continental forums in other regions. The process of bringing the forum to Britain has not been a straight-forward one and there are many lessons we can learn for the future. But while the forum that will happen in October will not be everything that Socialist Resistance supporters would have wanted, it is never the less unique opportunity British politics. For more about Socialist Resistance's plans at the ESF see p21.
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