Thursday 27 April 2017

Upcoming events in Leicester...

MAY DAY EVENTS in LEICESTER
International Workers' Day
Monday May 1st 2017

11.30am
Assemble in Jubilee Square at the top of High Street.

12.00 noon
The march sets off towards the Clock Tower. From there it goes up Gallowtree Gate for a rally at the Plaza outside the Tourist Information Office.

Leicester AF will be marching with comrades from the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) so look out for red and black flags and IWW flags.



1.30pm
May Day Social Event at
Duffy's Bar on Pocklington Walk
Free entry. Seven bands on.


*March and social organised by Leicestershire & District Trades Union Council

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Leicester IWW 
PUBLIC MEETING
"Why join the IWW?"
10am on Saturday 6th May 
at the Secular Hall
75 Humberstone gate
Leicester LE1 1WB 
 
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Leicester AF 
PUBLIC MEETING
"No to electoralism, yes to class struggle!"
7.30pm, Wednesday 24th May

Upstairs at the Regent Sports & Social Club 


102 Regent Road, Leicester LE1 7DA  
NB: this meeting replaces the previously advertised Libertarian Socialist Discussion Meeting on the Barcelona May Days

Monday 17 April 2017

What is council communism and is it still relevant today?


Libertarian Socialist Discussion Meeting

7pm on Tuesday 25th April 2017
102 Regent Road, Leicester LE1 7DA  



Council communism was an influential, historic left-communist current which developed mostly in Germany (where it became a significant force within the working class movement) and the Netherlands, with notable theorists and supporters such as Anton Pannekoek, Herman Gorter, Otto Rühle, Sylvia Pankhurst, Paul Mattick and Reichstag fire starter, Marinus van der Lubbe. Lenin dismissed it as an “infantile disorder” but council communist ideas have since influenced a range of more libertarian left-marxists as well as non-marxist groups such as the Anarchist Federation. So what is it exactly and what can we learn from it today?


This meeting is organised by Leicester group of the Anarchist Federation