Cricket for Iranian workers
This saturday I’m playing cricket to raise money for Iranian workers. Come down! You get the added bonus of laughing at me while I try and slog the ball and get bowled out.
Hands Off the People of Iran play the Labour Representation Committee in 30 overs of cricket with John McDonnell MP and Attila the Stockbroker leading the two teams - all in order to raise as much money as possible for the Iranian workers’ movement.
We have set ourselves the target of 1,000 pounds but are quietly confident that we can ago well above this if we put our minds to it and draw in as many of our vast supporters as possible. Such funds are absolutely central to our comrades in Iran organizing in the most difficult of situations and now facing a hugely repressive crackdown on their protests and rallies.This is why it is absolutely vital that the workers’ movement in this country organizes material and ideological solidarity. The working class needs its own foreign policy linking the workers’, women’s and students’ struggles in Iran with those in this country and elsewhere. So, we need need your help to get this event off the ground and to hopefully make it so successful that there will be many similar events for years to come!
More here. The teams are mixed and I’ve been put in the Hands Off People of Iran (HOPI) team!
If you come you not only help raise money but also get to meet some excellent left-wing bloggers (excl myself obviously). Stroppybird has more on that.
This Saturday afternoon, in Walthamstow
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good luck..wish I could make it..sounds fun
In at number four- impressive. You’ll be playing for the King’s XI next year.
Same here — score a 30 ball century mate but above all make sure you duck when you need to. All the best.
Good luck Sunny. Hope the weather doesn’t sabotage the match.
btw when’s the next pp meet up..since i’ve never made any of the others
Talking of Iran and cricket, has anyone else noticed the uncanny comparison between Graham Onions and President Ahmadinejad?
We haven’t set a date for the PP meetup yet. Still trying to get that sorted. Hopefull it will be late August.
thanks - I’m gonna pray I make about 30! I’ve not played for years!
Or even early September for the meet-up.
One simply hates to sound churlish, but isn’t this the same John McDonnell M.P. who refers to the knee-capping terrorists of the I.R.A. as “selfless and brave Active Service Unit volunteers” or is there another person with the same name?
Some of the I.R.A.’s abducted victims - their bodies, that is - have yet to be found.
Ahmadinejad has bowled brilliantly this morning
Cauldron,
You mean Onionsdinejad, right ?
As has Andersonejad
Sorry Cauldron, missed your comment 6 earlier - very good.