Manchester May Day 2008

The now annual Manchester May Day celebration has been expanded to include debate, discussion, and education.
Just like the last two years, festivities will begin with a short march from All Saints, Oxford Road, assembling at 11.30am on Bank Holiday Monday May 5.
The march will end with a rally in the Peace Gardens behind Manchester Town Hall around the slogan "Health care for all".
There will be speeches in solidarity was sacked Manchester nurse Karen Reissmann, and against threats to free health care for refugees and migrant workers.
Then, from 2pm to 6pm, there will be debate and discussion in the Friends Meeting House, Mount Street. The provisional programme is:

• Workers of the World Unite with Paul Mason, BBC Newsnight journalist and author of Live Working or Die Fighting, how the working class went global.
• Manchester launch of The Flying Pickets the 1972 builders' strike and the Shrewsbury trials with authors Dave Ayre, Reuben Barker, Jim French, Jimmy Graham, and Dave Harker.
• Will Kaufman perfroms Woody Guthrie: Hard Times and Hard Travellin'

The day is organised by Manchester Trades Union Council, Trades Unions for Refugees, and the Manchester Committee to Defend Asylum Seekers.