Perth May Day dinner

Wednesday, May 12, 1993 - 10:00

Perth May Day dinner

By Stephen Robson

PERTH — Two hundred people celebrated May Day at a dinner here on May 1 organised by the Democratic Socialist Party and Resistance to raise funds for Green Left Weekly.

Those delivering toasts included Robert Bropho, the prominent Aboriginal activist in the campaign to turn the Old Swan Brewery into park land and African National Congress Australasian representative Ndumiso Ntshinga. Angie Hartwig from the Democratic Socialist Party described how the socialist movement was going through a period of renewal.

Other toasts were provided by Resistance, the Greens (WA), Chilean Communist Party, El Salvador Support Network, the Curtin University Stonewall group and Fretilin.

Entertainment was provided by Chilean band Semilla and Nkhensene and Marco.

The May Day march in Fremantle on May 2 drew around 2000 people from a range of unions, solidarity and left organisations.

From GLW issue 99