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900 distributed door-to-door this morning in that part of Brixton that falls into the parliamentary constituency of Dulwich and West Norwood. At one end is Dulwich Village and Dulwich College private school. We were at the other end — Atlantic Road and Coldharbour Lane, the centre of the 1981 Brixton Riot, pictured here at the time:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_Brixton_riot#/media/File%3A1981_Brixton_Riots.jpg
Once again, the only other leaflets seen were from Labour.
200 were distributed yesterday in Clapham Common and 200 today in Streatham Vale. In the latter voters will be confronted with 4 ballot papers — one for the mayor, one for the party lists, one for the constituency, and one for a local by-election being held the same day.
We’re standing in the constituency. The ballot paper for this will be yellow. If you want socialism vote for the socialist candidate on the yellow ballot paper and write “I vote for socialism” on the other ones.
The US (and its satellites) will continue to supply arms to Israel, not so much (or even at all) to bomb Gaza but as a counter to Iran. That’s what Israel is for as far as they are concerned.
More leaflets were distributed today in the borough of Barnet today, in Friern Barnet.
Meanwhile, south of the river, a total of than 500 were distributed in Clapham High Street and in Streatham Hill
Yesterday, part of Abbey Road NW8 was leafletted though not the part where the Beatles were (that’s in Westminster not Camden). 400 leaflets were distributed through letter boxes in Vauxhall.
Other areas leafletted so far are Finchley, West Hampstead, Holborn, and Camden Town in Barnet & Camden and Kennington and West Dulwich in Lambeth & Southwark.
A handful will have been mistakenly distributed in neighbouring Islington, Westminster and Wandsworth. The boundary between boroughs is not immediately evident until you notice the name on the dustbins. But that’s not really a problem as the wording and QR are relevant anywhere in Greater London.
So far we have distributed or sent out for distribution over 5,000 of the leaflets, roughly half in each constituency.
The other parties don’t seem to have started leafletting yet, apart from the Labour Party whose leaflets have been found in parts of both constituencies.
Tomorrow at 1pm members and sympathisers meet at our premises in Clapham High Street to hold a street stall and distribute some more of the leaflets.
Our election leaflet on twitter (or whatever it’s called now):
Greater London Assembly elections are taking place on Thursday 2 May 2024. We are contesting two of the constituencies — Barnet & Camden in North London and Lambeth & Southwark in South London giving 870,000 electors the chance to reject capitalism. See https://t.co/m4dDYkFJNb pic.twitter.com/21OdjmGMXv
— The Socialist Party (@OfficialSPGB) April 1, 2024
One of our leafletters reports that one of the candidates for the mayor of London was outside Brixton tube station too the other day. Andreas Michli, standing as an independent, but apparently to promote his body-building gym in Wood Green. Hence his slogan “Make London Strong”, meaning make Londoners strong.
Anyway here he is strutting his stuff:
He obviously thinks that paying £10,000 (the election deposit which he is unlikely to save) is good value for money in terms of his business.
The Stop the War Coalition is organising a fringe meeting today at the teachers’ union conference in Bournemouth:
The main title is: STOP THE TORY WAR MACHINE!
Does this mean they think the British capitalist state’s war machine will become more acceptable when Labour takes over later this year (with their support)?
Typical case of mistakenly (or opportunistically) blaming the Tories rather than capitalism.
Here is the link to the electronic version of the leaflet we are distributing:
https://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/GLA-elections-rev2-imprint.pdf
The first couple of thousand leaflets have been distributed in different parts of both constituencies. We thought we might be starting too early but in at least one area the Labour Party had been distributing theirs.
For the record. Dont know about the others though.
These GLA candidates deserve your support:
London-wide list: CPB
Barnet & Camden: B. Martin (SPGB)
City & East: L. Austin (TUSC)
Croydon & Sutton: A. Ashley (TUSC)
Havering & Redbridge: A. Walker (TUSC)
Lambeth & Southwark: A. Buick (SPGB)
North East: N. Taaffe (TUSC)— Edmund Griffiths (@EdmundGriffiths) March 29, 2024
If, as unfortunately seems to be the case, the demonstrations continue because the killing and destruction doesn’t stop we will need a new leaflet. This would have to take into account that the demonstrations have become more and more anti-Israel and less and less simply anti-war, ie against the killing of our fellow workers in a conflict which doesn’t concern them.
