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Thursday 1 May / 10:30-4:30pm
May Day: International Workers’ Day

Join the CPGB-ML’s militant contingent to mark International Workers’ Day in the streets of London. Wear red, carry a party flag, and show your support for the struggling workers and oppressed peoples of the world. This system isn’t working for us; it’s time for it to go! The demonstration will be forming up all morning on Clerkenwell Green and will leave the square around midday, marching to Trafalgar Square, where our contingent will hold a mini rally of our own next to the party’s stall.

Saturday 10 May / 10:00-4:00pm
Merseyside Marxist Book Fair

Interested in finding out more about Marxism and Marxist ideas? Come along to this free event organised by . Comrades from will be there with information about local activity, how to get involved and a variety of useful books, literature and merchandise. Come and talk to our members.

Friday 18 July / 10:00-4:00pm
Tolpuddle Martyrs’ festival

Stall details tbc Our party will have a book stall all day at this year's Burston School Strike rally. Talking to us in person is the best way to understand out what makes our approach to politics different from the rest of the self-identifying ‘left’. We also have a wide range of literature on every topic of essential importance to the working class. In particular, pick up a copy of our essential guide to the present situation: . ------------------------------ The Tolpuddle martyrs were farmworkers from the village of Tolpuddle in Dorset, who were arrested and tried in 1834 for trying to form a union when their wages were reduced to starvation level. Led by George Loveless, the group formed the Friendly Society of Agricultural Labourers during a dispute over wage cuts. Although unions were not actually illegal, the government was very nervous about the spread of such activity, and so it arrested them under an old law against “unlawful oaths”. The men were convicted and sentenced to transported in Australia, but were pardoned in 1836 after mass protests, returning to England between 1837 and 1839. The Tolpuddle martyrs remain an example of the need for collective organisation under conditions of capitalist exploitation, and of the power that workers have when they mobilise in large enough numbers.

Saturday 26 July / 12:30-6:00pm
International solidarity bbq

Members and supporters of the party and Red Youth, along with family members and friends, will join diplomats from the embassies of socialist and revolutionary countries, as well as other fraternal international comrades, for an inspiring meeting followed by an afternoon of socialising round the barbecue. In particular, this event commemorates two momentous events that are of special significance not only to their own peoples but also to all communists and anti-imperialists worldwide.

• The on 26 July 1953, which kickstarted the Cuban revolution.
• The on 27 July 1953.

This is an event for comrades, friends and family of all ages.

Sunday 7 September / 10:30-4:00pm
Burston School Strike rally

Our party will have a book stall all day at this year's Burston School Strike rally. Talking to us in person is the best way to understand out what makes our approach to politics different from the rest of the self-identifying 'left'. We also have a wide range of literature on every topic of essential importance to the working class. In particular, pick up a copy of our essential guide to the present situation: . ------------------------------- The strike, which ran from 1914 through to 1939, was led by schoolchildren in response to the wrongful dismissal of two teachers at the village of Burston's school. Tom Higson, one of the teachers, was sacked in retaliation for organising local agricultural labourers. The teachers would go on to set up a school ran on donations which effectively replaced education in the village through the duration of the strike.

Saturday 13 September / 11:00-4:30pm
Wigan Diggers festival

Our party will have a book stall all day at this year's Wigan Diggers festival. Talking to us in person is the best way to understand out what makes our approach to politics different from the rest of the self-identifying 'left'. We also have a wide range of literature on every topic of essential importance to the working class. In particular, pick up a copy of our essential guide to the present situation: . ------------------------------- The Diggers were a group that was organised in the aftermath of the English Revolution (aka the English civil war) to represent the voice of the common people, and especially that of the propertyless poor. Led by Gerrard Winstanley, the group was also known as the ‘True Levellers’ to distinguish them from ‘The Levellers’, who, while seeking equality before the law and an extension of the right to vote for most men, did not support the abolition of private property and common ownership of the land. The Diggers’ nickname came from their belief that the land should be available to every person to dig and sow, so that everyone, rich or poor, could live, grow and eat by the sweat of their own brows, as according to them: “The earth was made to be a common treasury for all.” The Diggers were a movement before their time, but their principled defence of the poor and their championing of ideals that also underpin communism – that every person should work and every worker should share the wealth of society's labour – have inspired workers since the earliest days of the socialist movement in Britain.