Today's Branch Meeting

Hello comrades,

Tonight's branch meeting will be with Elaine Graham-Leigh, on "The Slump of the 1930s and the Crisis today", and will be held as usual at Kitap Evi bookshop on Tottenham High Road at 7.30 pm.

The task of socialists in an economic crisis is not just to organise fightbacks to lessen the effects of vicious attacks on pay and conditions, but also to explain why these recurent crashes are a feature of the capitalist system. One way that we can do this, and help to build resistance to the system as a whole, is to keep the memory of past struggles alive.

While most mainstream commentators may dismiss the 30s as a period of massive setbacks and disintegtration, we remember the great social movements that grew up out of the experience of the economic downturn.

Come to the meeting, and discuss whether the lessons of the past still hold true today, and what we can do to apply them.