European Summer Time
At last, the dark days are over and done with and we can all enjoy European Summer Time. (could someone tell the weather, please!)Anyway, here's a positive message from William Bloke or Billy Bragg that is worth spreading! Peace and Love to one and all!'Felt greatly inspired to be among the tens of thousands of people gathered in central London yesterday to protest against a politics that seeks to blame immigrants for all of society's ills. The concerns that people have about rising cost of living, widening gaps between the rich and poor, an over-stretched NHS, the lack of affordable housing and the effects of the climate crisis cannot be solved by rounding up people of colour and forcing them to 'remigrate'. ''Between now and the next election, there will be politicians of the Far-age right and the far right who will bang the drum for remigration in the hope that no one will ask them how they intend to address those aforementioned problems. Yesterday suggests that the people of Britain will not allow themselves to be fooled by such shysters.The Together Alliance has the feel of the Rock Against Racism campaign, specifically that actions of RAR's sister campaign, the Anti-Nazi League, which was made up of many civil society organisations such as the trade unions, charities and faith groups. That sensibility was underlined for me by having one of my old pals from those days, Jerry Dammers of the Specials, join me onstage to say a few words of solidarity.''What I found most encouraging yesterday was the number of young people in attendance. Marching for Rock Against Racism was my first politcal activism and the concert at Victoria Park in Hackney was a catalytic experience. Seeing so many people of my generation come together to oppose discrimination of all kinds gave me the courage of my convictions. ''I hope yesterday saw the introduction of a new generation of activists whose lives will be changed by what they saw and heard on the march. Because by being there, they have joined an anti-fascist tradition that stretches back not just to Rock Against Racism in the 1970s, but all the way back to the Battle of Cable Street in 1936.'
Gerry Boyce ● 7h9 Comments