Key events 1998 - 2000

1998

• WBC organises a May Day festival for democracy, calling for a return of an elected authority to London. 
• Along with the GMB, WBC funds a monument to Jim Connell, author of the labour anthem 'The Red Flag', in his Irish home village of Crossakiel, County Meath.
• Another busy year with Creamfields, Glastonbury and the Phoenix festival to name a few. 

The monumant at Crossakiel, County Meath

2000

• This is the year of the first Tolpuddle festival. In 1834, six farm labourers from this Dorset Village were sent to forced Labour in Australia for forming a union, but were later pardoned following a huge protest campaign. In 1934 an annual March was inaugurated, and now WBC help South West TUC to add a three-day festival to the celebration. WBC remains a sponsor as well as running the bars.

Our Tolpuddle Bar at Glastonbury

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