Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival and Rally, Friday 18th July to Sunday 20th July 2014
Tolpuddle 2013 Radical Workers’ Bloc: the weekend in pictures.
This will be our fourth bloc on the Martyrs Festival and rally; from an inauspicious start with seven of us and a black hanky on a stick, we’ve more than doubled each year to about seventy-five in 2013, from as far afield as Wales, France and the Midlands. Our commitment is to the original spirit of the Martyrs: working class self-organisation in the face of a hostile bourgeois state, more relevant today than ever, owing to the abject failure of political and industrial representation to meet the needs of the people, and the increasingly repressive reaction of the state to autonomous protest and resistance.
Once again we have a stall in the Martyrs Marquee; we will be carrying stock from Freedom Books, Britain’s oldest anarchist publisher, plus flags, badges, zines and pamphlets for donations, and loads of free stuff. If you’d like to take part and help run the stall, or if you have literature you’d like to give away or accept donations for please get in touch.
For those who are staying for the weekend festival, an advance party will arrive on Friday afternoon to pitch tents; we corral them together so that people can get to know each other, exchange contacts and ideas, plan and plot another year of class struggle.
If you’re just marching with us on Sunday 20th July, Meet up as usual 1:30 pm outside the Martyrs Museum; bring your flags and banners. View map Farcebook event
To get involved, contact: wsol@riseup.net A4 Flyer 2xA5 Flyer
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Wessex Solidarity 
Last year was great, we might even stay the whole weekend this time!
you folks setting up a facebook event?
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Probably, as soon as we get round to it! Or anyone else could do it really, we’d like to get as many people involved as possible, for it to take on a life of its own.
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Ok, the event’s up, please share and see you there!
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If you’re going to camp, get yer oar in quick because it always sells out, but it’s 15 quid for any size of tent, we can get about 12 in ours if people behave themselves.
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