‘We won’t pay for Trump’s war’
by Adam Gillman, South East London Socialist Party
Our recent stall at the Sainsbury’s in New Cross Gate, South East London, was great! We engaged using a petition on the issue of food prices going up, as profiteering private companies take advantage of a horrific war in Iran to make us pay.
Many people were angry that we had to keep on paying while oil companies increased their profits. Lewisham council went from Labour having every seat to a Green Party majority at the local elections in May. Lots of people were also hopeful that the new administration would do something, but also agreed that the community needed to put pressure on the council to implement measures to help with the cost of living, such as reintroducing the Education Maintenance Allowance for college students.
The petition was really useful at engaging with the local working-class community, and allowed us through discussions to link the national issue of prices going up, to the local issues of what councils and linking all of that to the need for a socialist transformation to end profiteering and war for good. Lots of people signed, including two school students and four people interested in joining the Socialist Party
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