Wednesday 1st May Workers Day of Action for Palestine
PSC, Stop the War Coalition, CND and others have declared May1st a workplace day of solidarity with the Palestinians. Talk to your workmates, friends, and neighbours. Do whatever act of solidarity you are able to on May 1st. Take a selfie, send it to social media including us. sheffieldantiwarcoalition@yahoo.co.uk
Saturday 4th May Sheffield May Day parade and rally
Bring your banners and celebrate trade unionism – our history; our battles; our victories; our humanity!
Monday 6th May Chesterfield May Day
Call out to all in Sheffield and South Yorkshire to support Chesterfield May Day on Bank Holiday Monday. Our Theme for the day is “Remembering the Past- Organising for the Future”. Marking the 40th anniversary of the great miners strike, our march will be led off by veterans of the strike and their families marching with the banners of the Derbyshire striking miners and the Orgreave Truth & Justice Campaign led off by the Ireland Colliery Band. Solidarity with Palestine is naturally our international theme is Palestine Solidarity and our strong panel of speakers will reflect the struggles for workers’ rights, anti racism and social justice which motivate our movement. Assemble from 10.30 am at Chesterfield Town Hall, Rose Hill S40 1LP to match off at 11.00am. Plus some great live music in New Square after the rally. https://www.facebook.com/events/1292428254751816
Tuesday 7th May Sheffield Stop the War public meeting
7pm St Mary’s Church Community centre, Bramall lane S2 4QZ
Wednesday 8th May Stand up to Racism AGM and public meeting
7pm Central United Reform Church, Norfolk Row S1 2JB
To book your free ticket https://buytickets.at/sheffieldstanduptoracism/1215396
Speakers:
1. Brendan Woodhouse from Sea watch and FBU Author of DORO: refugee, hero champion survivor.
2. Cllr Ruksana Haleem (report back from Calais Volunteering)
3. Nahella Ashraf SUTR
We have the most racist government in history who are desperate to ramp up racism. The attack by Frank Hester, the Tories biggest donor, on Diane Abbott is shocking and part of a long line of racist dog whistle politics. Every single week we get an Islamophobic or racist comment designed to scapegoat refugees and Muslims. The divisive anti extremism plans which describe Muslim organisations as undemocratic are part of the Othering. That’s why we need to stand together and resist all forms of racism- come along to our Annual general meeting- find out how to get involved.
Care 4 Calais trip: We are planning a trip for 14th. 15th, 16th June the cost should be around £150 each including accommodation, petrol and ferry crossing. If you want to join the delegation please get in contact.
Maxine and Sahail, Joint convenors Of Sheffield Stand up to Racism
Saturday 11th May NAQBA Day demonstration
More details to follow. Naqba Day is when we remember the NAQBA (or catastrophe in Arabic) when Israeli Zionist terrorists drove 750,000 Palestinians off their land in 1948 on the creation of the Israel nation. The ethnic cleansing and oppression of Palestinians has continued ever since.
Tuesday 28th May Sheffield TUC Delegate Meeting
7pm till 9pm. Trades and Labour Club, 200 Duke Street, Sheffield S2 5QQ
Trade union members who are not delegates are welcome to attend as visitors but may not vote.
Saturday 15th June Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign Annual Rally
MINERS’ STRIKE 40th ANNIVERSARY
ORGREAVE ANNUAL MARCH AND RALLY, Saturday 15th June 2024
SHEFFIELD
SUPPORT US IN OUR CAMPAIGN FOR TRUTH AND JUSTICE
Please come along and support the Annual Orgreave Rally organised by the Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign. Bring your banners, comrades and friends and march in solidarity with us through Sheffield City Centre to support our call for an inquiry for truth and justice for the miners brutalised by the state and police at the Orgreave Coking plant in June 1984.
More information about arrangements and speakers will be made available soon.
SUPPORT OUR CALL FOR AN ORGREAVE INQUIRY
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Saturday Sunday 22nd 23rd June Small Park Big Run
Friday 19th – 22st July 2024 Sheffield Transformed Weekend Festival SADACCA (Sheffield and District African Caribbean Community Association), 48 Wicker, S3 8JB.
Sheffield Transformed is a group of socialists who run events where people can come together to discuss radical political ideas, enjoy arts and culture, and build a movement in a safe environment. We have been organising events since 2019, most recently on the Socialist Republic of South Yorkshire, a Radical History Walk and on Police suppression of protest.
Inspired by The World Transformed we organise and host a wide range of events and activities on topics including housing, welfare, education, the environment and the many other issues facing our city.
Saturday 20th July. The next Free Radicals gig will be at Theatre Deli
Thanks very much to everyone who came to the Free Radicals/Sosa-Sa gig a couple of weeks ago. It was very busy and we had to turn away some people. Very sorry if you were one of those. The evening raised over £5,600 which went straight into the Sheffield Emergency Relief Fund and then straight to Gaza. This fund has now transferred over £130,000 to Gaza, which has been providing support food parcels, blankets, baby milk, clothes, nappies and cash to 3931 families in Khan Younis and Rafah. [Fuller reports can be found at: https://www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk/?page_id=3286]
Sunday 18th August South Yorkshire Festival
We are marking the 40th anniversary of the 1984 Miners Strike at the SYF and are pleased to announce the guest speakers so far are Colin Kirkham, a former miner, will be speaking to his experiences at that time and Jean Miller from Women Against Pit Closures we will be announcing further speakers in due course. Brian Clarke will also be speaking prior to the afternoon talk in the Unison Room on the history of Wortley Hall from the 50’s onwards. We are also hoping to get a speaker on the history of the Hall and Barnsley Area.
Rotherham’s “South Yorkshire Transport Museum” will be bringing some vintage vehicles for us to see, we will have our usual stalls, stands and bouncy castles for a fun family day out, again we hope to make all the rides and face painting free.
We again are looking for volunteers for the event. Please email politicalsecretary@wortleyhall.org.uk should you wish to help on the day. Massive thank you to all who kindly helped out with last year’s event.
We need help on:
- Traffic Management
- Staffing the Wortley Hall Stand
- General Setting Up.
We have started collecting donations and pledges for this great event, if you can support this day, please contact info@wortleyhall.org.uk – or, by contacting the hall on 0114 288 2100. You can also send a cheque to Wortley Hall, Wortley Village, Sheffield, S35 7DB, cheque payable to Wortley Hall Ltd. Please ensure to mark your letter for South Yorkshire Festival.
SYF Committee
