The flying of UK flags to stir anti-migrant anger will be encouraged by a march from Sheffield Peace Gardens to refugee accommodation on Blonk Street, a hotel which has been repeatedly targeted, and its residents harassed, according to SCARF (Sheffield Communities Against Racism and Fascism). The vast majority of Sheffield residents reject racism. To oppose the march, assemble 11.30am (Saturday…
Sheffield DocFest is an international film and arts festival and marketplace, “celebrating, championing and debating” the genre of documentary film and art. Highlights this year include as one of the themes Rebellions – Stories of resistance, revolution and the fight for our rights, and there are various events including one on Podcasting, and loads of films to watch. The public…
A public meeting to hear from Steve Bell, National Treasurer of Stop the War Coalition. “I fear the world is not sleepwalking into a wider war. I fear it is doing so with its eyes wide open.” Antonia Guterres 2023 The world is becoming ever more unstable. It is not only the US-Israeli war in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran but…
The Labour Government is dismantling a cornerstone of the British Constitution, the right to jury trial. That’s why The Jury Alliance is running a national campaigning day of action outside Crown Courts across England and Wales including Sheffield, to demonstrate opposition to the government’s attack on trial by jury. Juries provide a vital, common-sense check on the law, a built-in…
The Socialist Equality Party (British section of the International Committee of the Fourth International or ICFI), offers this two-hour event, an analysis of the General Strike of 1926. It was launched in response to a massive attack on the wages of Britain’s 1.2 million coal miners, amid a period of labour unrest. But the Trades Union Congress (TUC), which…
Sheffield Trades Union Council (TUC) is pleased to announce the launch of a new pamphlet commemorating Sheffield’s – and Sheffield TUC’s – involvement in the General Strike of 1926. It is being produced by archivist, local historian, GMB trade union rep and Labour Party activist Edd Mustill (also the author of a new centenary history, Britain’s Revolutionary Summer: The General…
