first meeting with the Socialist Workers Party.

23/07/2015.  Socialist Workers Party, Friends Meeting House, Manchester 7pm.

First meeting with the Socialist Workers Party (SWP).  Didn't know what to expect as growing up the media have tended to protray socialist in a negative light. Striking miners and the loony left.  But I met a group of ordinary people who just want to make the world a better place.  They do this by educating themselves, organising actions against unfairness and inhumanity and consider how to draw together others who are being abused by the capitalist system.  Education tonight concerned the current water rate protests in Ireland and linked this to the recent vote to allow gay people to get married. 

Other than attending as many protest marches and rallies against austerity and cuts to public spending, I haven't really been much of an activist.  However, be in the right place at the right time, and opportunities will arise.  Voluntees were needed to 'leaflet' workers under threat from the capitalist machine and I offered.  It's only later, after saying 'I can do that', that I consider what I might be getting myself into.  Someone isn't going to like this, me telling workers that their boss is greedy bully and that they should stand up to the boss and tell him that they are not going to take this anymore. Ah well, I believe I'm doing the right thing.  Capitalism creates poverty and inequality.  Its not fair.