Roundtable 1: Current Struggle

You’ve heard the theory and the ideas, but what do class struggle anarchists actually do? How do you take a seemingly abstract utopian vision and organise along such lines within working class communities. To discuss this will be various groups anarchist and left wing organisations, talking about real issues and will hope to inspire others to do similar work.

There will be a round table discussion with the following organisations

Haringay Solidarity Group

Haringey Solidarity Group (HSG) started life during the anti poll tax campaigns. Once the Poll Tax was defeated most of the Anti-Poll Tax groups around the country split up. But in Haringey we decided there were other things to fight against which were just as important as the poll tax, so we stayed together and change our name to Haringey Solidarity Group.

HSG is committed to helping the working class reach a position where we are able to bring about major social change and create a society that answers everyone's needs. In order to get to that stage we need to work with our neightbours, workmates, and friends to answer our immeadiate needs in a way that increases our independence, self confidence and popular organisation.

We are currently involved with our local residents associations, Haringey Independent Cinema (a radical film night), organising around housing and debt issues, and supporting workers in struggle. We also publish around 4000 copies of our newsletter several times a year.

London Coalition Against Poverty

London Coalition Against Poverty is a coalition activists, advice workers, and campaigning groups. We believe that by coming together to combine advice work with direct action within our communities, we can access the rights that we are often denied. These rights are not enough, but we have to start somewhere.

In our first year we have successfully got people housed, helped organise a campaign by residents of a hostel to get it cleaned up and secure, organised a worker's rights training day, and held demos to force Hackney Council to treat homeless people with respect.

That is just for starters.

Independant Working Class Association

The Independent Working Class Association has been established to promote and celebrate the political independence of the working class, and to pursue the political and economic interests of that class with no consideration for, and regardless of, the consequences to the existing political and economic structures.

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