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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.
The SWP goes completely bonkers:
https://twitter.com/socialistworker/status/1772631818883252320/photo/1
The last 300 or 400 at Head Office of the Gaza War leaflets were handed out at the national demonstration in London today. They are now less than a hundred left. In all, over 7500 will have been distributed up and down the country and in various different parts of London since October.
As we walked to the starting point in Russell Square we passed the SWP bookshop Bookmarx on the way. Outside they were displaying a copy of “Socialist Worker” with the front cover banner headline “SMASH ISRAEL”. What’s wrong with these people? Is there nothing they will stop at to try to win the support of radical Islamists? And how are they proposing to do that? And then what?
Russell Square is in Camden and so in one of the constituencies we are contesting in the Greater London Council elections. Someone handing out a “Just Stop Starmer” leaflet was given our election leaflet, appropriately enough as Starmer is the MP for this part of Camden — the first of many to be distributed over the coming month.
There are 13 candidates for Mayor, just as useless as for the party lists. So another ballot paper to write “SOCIALUSM” across (voters in London will get 3 ballot papers — 1 for the mayor, 1 for the list and 1 for the constituency).
Femy AMIN (Animal Welfare Party – People, Animals, Environment)
Count BINFACE (Count Binface for Mayor of London)
Rob BLACKIE (Liberal Democrat)
Natalie Denise CAMPBELL (Independent)
Howard COX (ReformUK – London Deserves Better)
Amy GALLAGHER (Social Democratic Party)
Zoë GARBETT (The Green Party)
Tarun GHULATI (Independent)
Susan Mary HALL (The Conservative Party Candidate)
Sadiq KHAN (Labour Party)
Andreas Christoffi MICHLI (Independent)
Brian Benedict ROSE (London Real Party – Transform London)
Nick SCANLON (Britain First – No To Immigration)I see “Count Binface” is stabbing. The deposit to stand is £10,000. So he’s got a bob or two — to burn as he will lose it. Perhaps he is a real count. He’s a real something anyway.
There will be 15 all-London lists standing:
Animal Welfare Party
Britain First
Christian People’s Alliance
Communist Party of Britain
Conservatives
Heritage Party
Labour Party
Liberal Democrats
Reform UK – London Deserves Better
Rejoin EU
Social Democratic Party
The Green Party
FOX Laurence
LONDON Farah
ROMUALDO GabeSocialists will have no problem not voting for any of that lotc and writing “SOCIALISM” across that ballot paper.
Notable that there is no TUSC list and that the non-Labour left’s standard-bearer is the Communist Party of Britain (the Morning Stsr mob). Did they do a deal, with TUSC only standing in the geographical constituency section (in 4 of them)?
