Mobilising to Defeat Fascism

Rowley Ashworth Solicitors will join keynote speakers Ken Livingstone, Mayor of London, and Rt Hon Harriet Harman, MP for Peckham, at Southern & Eastern Region TUC (SERTUC) event ‘Mobilising to defeat fascism’ on 23rd February 2008.

The event is being held at Congress house Central London and focuses on the elections for the Greater London Assembly and Mayor will be held on International Workers’ Day 1 May 2008. Trevor Sterling of Rowley Ashworth will be speaking on the legal requirements of campaigning and elections.

SERTUC said: “If a party achieves 5 per cent of the vote it will almost certainly gain an Assembly seat. We are confronted by the possibility that one or more fascists might be elected to the Assembly. This event is designed to mobilise trade unions in the struggle against the far right, to better enable individual trade unionists to take effective action and to provide the opportunity to build linkages between committed people and campaigns.”

A significant part of this event will be the running of workshops to teach specific campaign skills that people can use in campaigns against the far-right.

All trade unionists and in London, the South East and the East of England are welcome to attend and the focus for this event will be on the GLA elections to be held 1 May 2008. (Contact details:- SERTUC, Congress House, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3LS. Telephone 0207 467 1220 or email sertucevents@tuc.org.uk. Website www.tuc.org.uk/sertuc)

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Editors Notes

1. Rowley Ashworth Solicitors specialise in employment law and personal injury claims for trades unions and their members. The firm has eight offices nationwide working on behalf of Unite (Amicus Section), Unite (TGWU Section), GMB South and USDAW.

2. Rowley Ashworth Solicitors is regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority.