Occupy! Manchester — 2nd October Tory Party Conference

From 2–5 Octo­ber 2011 the Con­ser­v­a­tive Par­ty are com­ing to Man­ches­ter to hold their annu­al con­fer­ence. All eyes will be on this city as the Tory’s analyse their progress in imple­ment­ing their dis­as­trous pro­gram of pub­lic sec­tor spend­ing cuts, and reveal plans for the years ahead. This con­fer­ence should not go unop­posed. We intend to make the oppo­si­tion to the cuts and the wide­ly shared belief in a bet­ter alter­na­tive future vis­i­ble, and we’d like to do this with you!

From 2–5 Octo­ber 2011 the Con­ser­v­a­tive Par­ty are com­ing to Man­ches­ter to hold their annu­al con­fer­ence. All eyes will be on this city as the Tory’s analyse their progress in imple­ment­ing their dis­as­trous pro­gram of pub­lic sec­tor spend­ing cuts, and reveal plans for the years ahead. This con­fer­ence should not go unop­posed. We intend to make the oppo­si­tion to the cuts and the wide­ly shared belief in a bet­ter alter­na­tive future vis­i­ble, and we’d like to do this with you!

Tories not wel­come!

We have been inspired by the large and vibrant stu­dent protests that took place last win­ter, by the dynam­ic and high-impact actions of UK Uncut, and by the pop­u­lar demon­stra­tions we are wit­ness­ing across North Africa, the Mid­dle East, Spain and Greece. The times are chang­ing and peo­ple are speak­ing out against injus­tice and inequal­i­ty.

What are you plan­ning to do?

We need to try new forms of oppo­si­tion. We have marched in our tens of thou­sands at pre­vi­ous par­ty con­fer­ences, and in our hun­dreds of thou­sands in Lon­don. Cru­cial as they are, more march­es in big­ger num­bers will not be enough. As the anti-war protests of 2003 showed, the gov­ern­ment finds them easy to ignore. As anger at the Con-Dem cuts grows we need to make it more vis­i­ble.

The cuts are for the ben­e­fit of the rich – we refuse to pay for their cri­sis!

The TUC have called a nation­al demon­stra­tion to be held in Man­ches­ter on Sun­day Octo­ber 2nd. That after­noon anti-cuts pro­tes­tors will occu­py Albert Square to cre­ate an assem­bly of protest on the doorstep of the Tory’s con­fer­ence, a sym­bol of the mass oppo­si­tion to the cuts and a place for real
debate and dis­cus­sion about the alter­na­tives and the pos­si­bil­i­ties.

Come ready to make noise, and stay for the long haul!

Occupy!MCR

Sup­port­ers so far:

* Bak­ers Food and Allied Work­ers Union – Man­ches­ter and Mersey­side.
* Edu­ca­tion Activist Net­work.
* Geoff Brown, Sec­re­tary of the Man­ches­ter TUC (pc).
* Man­ches­ter Book Bloc.
* The Man­ches­ter Green and Black Cross.
* Man­ches­ter UKun­cut.
* Man­ches­ter Uni­ver­si­ty Staff against the Cuts.
* Man­ches­ter Uni­ver­si­ty Stu­dent Union.
* Queer Resis­tance North-West.
* Real Democ­ra­cy Man­ches­ter.
* Shift Mag­a­zine.
* Social­ist Work­ers Par­ty.
* Social­ist Work­er Stu­dent Soci­ety.