This week Rotherham Socialist party held 2 stalls in the town centre... we keep having to jostle for position on Howard Street (pedestrian street linking the bus station with the market square); at one end there are small stalls and Big Issue sellers who we don't want to annoy and at the other we've got a new shop opening doin' opeing day promotion type stunts complete with Borat lookalike!
Either way - 27 (a sell out situation) on Tuesday and 46 on Friday (totaling 73) copies of The Socialist were shifted! Not bad that!
Also, we made a few new contacts and we were glad to see one of them turn up to Sundays meeting. The Meeting itself was entitled 'Socialism FAQ' and was supposed to be a general discussion outlining Socialism for people who had not been to our branch meeting before. 10 people turned up and although only 2 new faces were there, the discussion was really healthy. It is probably true that these types of general discussions help the branch to develop our analysis and arguments for Socialism!
Next Sunday most of the branch will probably be down in London for the National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) lobby of the TUC conference to urge the TUC to call a date for a general strike.
Plans for the Rotherham leg of the Jarrow March are comeing on nicely with projected route going through Thorpe Hesley before heading into Sheff... although we have no definite plans as yet, we do intend to get some sort of 'Welcoming Rally' at the rec in Thorpe Hesley and join the march for a wee while, hopefully attracting some help from local pubs etc...
This week we will be doing stalls on Wednesday and Friday from 11am to 1pm... we also hope to get up to the colleges for a bit of leafleting!
See you on the streets!
b!x
