Capitalism isn't working - What is our alternative?

The organisers of the Convention of The Left would like to invite you to a meeting next Tuesday :

Tuesday - October 21st at 7pm in the Friends Meeting House, Main Hall.

Following the success of the Convention in Manchester recently, this meeting will discuss the crisis of capitalism and develop our ideas for action in response to it. We have been clear all along that the wealth exists in society to pay for our essential needs - and now the way the Governments of the UK, EU and US have found this money at the drop of a hat proves what we have been saying. The trouble is that they want to use it to prop up capitalism - which will inevitably lead to the same results all over again. They are buying themselves out of their crisis, but letting the rest of us pay the price - with the added danger that recession will lead to another crisis - scapegoating, racism and the rise of the far right. We should be saying that the recession should not be blamed on the victims. The poor should not be punished for the crisis of capitalism. We must provide the alternative.

The meeting will be in three parts:

1) Discussion on the general political situation

2) What we want to do - what campaigns we want to start or work together in, whether we can put forward our own "programme" of action and see how the unity developed through the Convention of The Left can be taken forward in the Manchester area

3) Proposals for the Convention Recall Event on November 29th

You can download a leaflet at http://www.conventionoftheleft.org/resources/211008.pdf