G8 news

Campaigning in Hackney

In Hackney, we have been discussing how we can best campaign in the run-up to the G8 protests in July. Many young people are interested in the global issues, like world poverty, hunger and war - that will be thrown up by the G8 meeting.

Suzanne Beishon, Hackney

Of course it is the G8 nations themselves who are responsible for these problems and our campaigning will highlight this and show the potential for socialist ideas to change the world.

In Hackney we are throwing everyone into this campaign. As well as focusing on London Metropolitan University and a number of schools, we are also looking into alternative events at the local music venues Carling Academy and The Garage.

We’ve painted our campaign stalls ‘signal red’ and made sure that we have material from some of the sections of the Committee for a Workers’ International to attract non-English speaking people in Hackney. We are also looking into making some badges and will be selling the Make capitalism history wristbands.

The G8 is on the branch agenda every week and we have a wall calendar for people to add events to and their names to. We are organising a public meeting for the 23 June and have a target of getting six people to the international youth camp and three to the demo. We shall also be participating in the London-wide youth activities like the flag/banner making day.