Amy Rushton

A sociable, socialist, social worker. B&NES UNISON (she/her)

[Amy Rushton @amyrushrush]

@katieMum @Never_Again2020 @Keir_Starmer @ShabanaMahmood Literally in Bristol

[Bristol Transformed @BrizTransformed]

Ticket link on headfirst: https://t.co/Uh67lJq7P5

Bristol Transformed is back for its seventh year!

Bristol’s leading festival of radical politics, arts and culture will return on Easter weekend (4-5 April) at the Trinity Centre. There’ll be workshops, panels and activities covering a whole range of left politics. Come along to learn about practice, theory, and how we can all get involved to transform ourselves, Bristol, and the world!

- 100 years on from the 1926 General Strike in the UK - how did it get organised, who took part and what can we learn
- Organising for Palestine - discussing revolutionary praxis with the Bristol Apartheid Free Zone
Should we all join the Greens? Or should we make Your Party Our party? Untangling the puzzle of the left parties in Britain
- Comrade Delta - A conversation with David Renton about his new book and what the left can learn about the scandals and failures of the SWP, the largest far left party in Britain
How to radicalise your union? Ideas and approaches to building power and class solidarity in local branches
- Socialist Housing - how can we fight for more and better social housing and take a step towards destroying landlordism in the UK’s third most expensive city to rent in.

As always, we will have you covered for free childcare all weekend, courtesy of our Childcare Caucus - included in the cost of a ticket!

We are also excited to announce a brand new addition to this year's festival - a young people's programme aimed at 11-16 year olds. This is as well as our crèche for lefty little ones. Run by experienced youth workers and BT organisers, expect sessions including:

- March on the Boss: a tactic for activists of all ages
- Protest songs workshop from Glasgow Anarchist Choir
- An introduction to colonialism and capitalism through an interactive game

All under 16s get in free to the festival. If you are part of, or know a young people's organisation that might want to attend the day, please get in touch by emailing: [email protected]

Early bird tickets are now on sale - available for a limited time only, so get them while you can!

[Taj Ali @Taj_Ali1]

If you hold a placard saying you support Palestine Action, you get nicked.

If you hold a banner saying 'Kill 'Em All' outside a hotel housing asylum seekers, the police look the other way.

[Somerset Live @SomersetLive]

Fury as pay cuts loom for some council workers https://t.co/RPhfqkNjiI

[Unite the union: join a union @unitetheunion]

Birmingham refuse workers have little choice but to take strike action over pay.

“@BhamCityCouncil has been wasting millions upon millions boosting agency profits. That makes the pay attacks on its directly employed refuse workforce even more disgraceful." @UniteSharon

[Guardian news @guardiannews]

Palestinians will not be allowed to return to homes in northern Gaza, says IDF https://t.co/7xjKHkoLbd

[Amy Rushton @amyrushrush]

I hate leftist Halloween. What do you mean you’re the red pepper from @RedPeppermag @steph_soh

[Amy Rushton @amyrushrush]

@steph_soh The hits just keep coming

[Amy Rushton @amyrushrush]

The good people of Bristol coming out again to make it clear that fascists are not welcome

[Amy Rushton @amyrushrush]

@WillNWatts @AgentOrang99462 But also, yes

[Amy Rushton @amyrushrush]

The fash out in Bristol this evening. Luckily there are many more of us than of them

[Amy Rushton @amyrushrush]

@WillNWatts @AgentOrang99462 It definitely isn’t.

[Amy Rushton @amyrushrush]

@WillNWatts Plenty of things to be doing, and I’m doing lots of them. One of them is making sure the far right don’t attack my city

[Amy Rushton @amyrushrush]

@WillNWatts It’s the far right. They were doing Nazi salutes. This isn’t an issue where there are two sides of a debate.

[Amy Rushton @amyrushrush]

@sallycalverley Anytime x

[Gabrielle Lawler @lawlerg]

@LewishamCouncil
@Brenda_Dacres
@LewishamUNISON #SaveOurUnion

[Amy Rushton @amyrushrush]

BANES UNISON stand in solidarity with Justine and Jay. Stop union busting and racism at Lewisham Council. Save the jobs of UNISON Branch Secretaries- Justine and Jay- ahead of the Council’s £25m in cuts.

@LewishamCouncil
@Brenda_Dacres
@LewishamUNISON #SaveOurUnion

[UNISON Lewisham @LewishamUNISON]

Rally against workplace racism
Wednesday 31 July at 1pm
Outside Lewisham Town Hall
Share and listen to experiences from other Black and Asian workers

Read more about the campaign here⬇️

[Amy Rushton @amyrushrush]

Please turn out to support this action. The trade union movement in Lewisham needs you

[UNISON Lewisham @LewishamUNISON]

Justine, Branch Secretary, has been informed she has 6 weeks left of employment with Lewisham. This will incapacitate the Council’s biggest union just before management carry out £25m of cuts.

Join the rally Wednesday at 1pm!