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Tolpuddle Martyrs RallyThe annual working class festival to commemorate the memory of the struggle of the Tolpuddle Martyrs is held on the third weekend of every July in the Dorset village of Tolpuddle.This popular event celebrates the fight to inevitable victory of the oppressed over the oppressor classes. International speakers join with workers' representatives, and progressive musicians and artists to make it an occasion to remember, as well as to offer a timely warning to the bourgeoisie that they must be alert to the final reappropriation. |
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The Tolpuddle Rally welcomed with enthusiasm the
representative of the Palestinian People and gave a rousing cheer to her
speech. She described in detail the present situation in Palestine where
the people are under constant daily attacks from the Israeli aggressor
army and are being killed on a systematic basis. She explained the similarities
between the courageous resistance in Palestine today and the historical
class struggles in England against oppression. She also portrayed how
the search, subsequent to the Holocaust, for a paradise on earth by those
who emigrated from Europe was today also the reasonable demand of the
people of living in that land. She made a special call for a boycott of
all Israeli goods and contacts, and that support for the Palestinian People's
struggle be at least equal to the support that was given to the South
African people in their fight against the previous white racist regime
which had been propped up by US and British imperialism, and on to ultimate
victory. This just call was received with great warmth by all the progressive
people assembled.
Photos, report - July 15, 2001 |
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