Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is calling for the public to join the online ‘People’s Assembly (PA) Fight for Our Lives’ rally happening this Thursday in order to us around socialist answers to the injustices which have been exposed by Covid-19. Tara Pilkington gives us the details.
As we are currently living in unprecedented times due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, Jeremy Corbyn has noted that our inability to hold ‘ordinaty’ meetings does not negate our need to communicate a response which addresses and recognises how health and social inequality have disproportionately effected the countries poorest and most vulnerable.
The online meeting, which will be taking place this Thursday at 6:30PM, aims to bring together organisations who can propose specific demands which will inform the campaign on how we should exit the current crisis in a way that lays the foundations for a ‘tangible left programme’.
According to People’s Assembly national organiser, Ramona McCartney: “It’s vital the left highlights the way the government has mishandled the crisis”.
The theme of the meeting will be “health before wealth”, and will feature speakers such as Mr Corbyn and PA national secretary Laura Pidcock. There will also be trade-union leaders taking part, including Dave Ward, Mark Serwotka and Kevin Courtney, PA co-chair and Unite assistant general secretary Steve Turner. Additionally, activist leaders such as Black Activists Rising Against Cuts’s Zita Holbourne and Communist Party executive member and rail worker Alex Gordon will be participating.
Facebook pages which will be streaming the meeting include Corbyn’s, union pages including Unite, the CWU and PCS, the Left Bible, Disabled People Against Cuts, the Communist Party and Young Communist League.
- The People’s Assembly Fight for Our Lives rally will air from 6:30PM on Thursday 7 May
- For more information, visit: https://www.thepeoplesassembly.org.uk/
