The match

• Stumps at noon, entertainment from 11am
  Hands Off the People of Iran v Labour Representation Committee, Low Halls sports ground, South Access Road, London E17.
  Hopi (captain: Attila the Stockbroker) will play LRC (captain: John McDonnell MP) in a 30-over game to raise £1,000 for our comrades in Iran. There will also be ‘calypso cricket’, bar, barbecue, car boot sale, raffle, stalls for organisations and campaigns.
• Can you help?
  Please email office@hopoi.info or bennolewis@googlemail.com if you are able to help out on the day. Maybe you can’t come, but are able to donate prices for our raffle? Or a bottle of wine that we can sell? Your help is much appreciated!
• How to get there:
  Download a Map
  20min walk from Blackhorse Road tube station (pls note the Victoria Line will be closed between Brixton and Warren Street)
  10min walk from St James Street railway station (take the National Express East Anglia towards Liverpool Street from Walthamstow Central, which runs every 15 minutes: 10.49am, 11.04am, 11.19am etc)

Gig in the evening

There will also be a great gig in the evening, with lots of fantastic bands. Come along!

7.30pm -2am at Dalston Social Centre, 2 Belgrade Road, N16 8DJ
With: Atilla The Stockbroker, Bubblegum Screw, Hiroshamour, Egg Timer, The Avatars, Tickin’ Time Bomb John.

Admission: £3/£5 (£10 Solidarity)

Publicity material

• Click here for a RTF document in Farsi
• Click here to download A4 leaflet in low resolution (400KB)
• Click here to download A4 leaflet in high resolution (3.84MB)

How to get from the cricket to the gig

Download a leaflet with a map here

1.) Try to find a driver or come by car.
For your Satnav: you’re going from E17 8AX to N16 8DJ

2.) By public transport:

• Walk to St.James Street Rail Station
  Take the National Express East Anglia towards Liverpool Street
• Get off at Hackney Downs Station
  Take the Route Bus 276 from Stop: P towards Stoke Newington Common
• Get off at Stoke Newington Police Station
  Walk south along Stoke Newington Road, after five you minutes you’ll see Belgrade Road on your right

The big game on August 1 – Get involved!

The plans are slowly taking shape for what should be an excellent day with cricket, a barbecue, a bar, and some promising entertainment in the evening provided by our fans and supporters.

We have set ourselves the target of 1,000 pounds but are 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. Whilst sanctions continue to hit the Iranian people and the bellicose Israeli rhetoric continues, trade union rights are banned and Iranian workers risk life and limb organizing for the most basic workers’ rights in the face of a brutal theocratic regime.

John McDonnell MP: "an excellent initiative"

This is why it is absolutely vital that the workers’ movement in this country organizes material and ideological solidarity with workers’, women’s and students’ struggles in Iran – they are our natural allies and a true beacon of hope for genuine democracy and freedom.

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!

Can you?

*Play? The standard will be more ‘village’ than the ‘Test Match’ so even if you have to brush off those pads after years of neglect – get in touch! Both male and female welcome players welcome!

*Umpire/Score? Fancy getting involved in keeping tabs on a game that will probably go down to the wire? Have the expertise to decide whether comrades’ bowling is too far to the left or (or the right?) Know somebody who does? Get in touch!

*Make teas/master a barbecue/pour a decent pint? All this will be central to the day’s fundraising and the more volunteers we have the better.

*Get your union branch to sponsor some of the costs we will invariably have to cover? (Pitch hire, kit, food costs etc)

*Buy one of our wonderful t-shirts/hoodies/cricket shirts?

*Book coaches and minibuses in order to get as many supporters from your locality to come and watch the game?

*Perform? We are particularly appealing to our artistically-minded allies and supporters to put together a fundraising social after the match in a nearby pub

*Get your union/organization to a message of solidarity promoting the event for our blog and in our publicity?

Pleas get in touch with us to offer your help, show solidarity or find out more about what should be an excellent event for both young and old, cricket-lovers and cricket-haters alike!