SHERIDAN FIGHTS NEW LABOUR BAN ON ANTI-WAR RALLYTommy Sheridan today tabled a motion in the Scottish Parliament calling on the Labour Party and the Scottish Exhibition & Conference Centre to allow the February 15th march and rally against the war to take place.
The Labour Party, who have booked the SECC for that weekend for a Labour conference, have asked the SECC to refuse permission for the march to have a stage and a PA at the rally.
Tommy Sheridan said,
“New Labour want to stifle all opposition to warmonger Blair who will be speaking at the SECC. We are demanding that New Labour are forced to climb down and allow the rally as they were forced to do in London over the use of Hyde Park. I have today placed a question to the First Minister and a motion in the Parliament. Today I also appeared in a photocall with all five parties in Glasgow City Chambers who showed that we can unite in action against the war. Will New Labour now repent and lift the ban? If they don’t, we shall drown them in a storm of protest on the 15th!”
First Minister’s Question:
S1F-02485 Tommy Sheridan (Glasgow) SSP: To ask the First Minister what the Scottish Executive’s position is on the resolution passed by the Parliament on 30 January 2003 that recognised the right of citizens to demonstrate peacefully as will take place in Glasgow on 15 February 2003 in opposition to the war with Iraq.
Motion:
That the Scottish Parliament calls on the Labour Party and the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre to allow the anti-war rally to take place at the SECC.
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