Monthly Archives: May 2013

The Last Pit in the Valley – the Irwell Valley Mining Project

Posted on May 30, 2013 by lipstick socialist

For the last twenty years former miner Paul Kelly has been placing flowers at the entrance to what was Agecroft Colliery in Salford. I did it as a memorial to those people who worked and died in the pit. In … Continue reading →

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Stop,Look,Listen…my weekly selection of favourite films, books and events to get you out of the house

Posted on May 26, 2013 by lipstick socialist

Watch… We Live in Two Worlds ..a number of films about a flawed but important public service facing privatisation, the Post Office which in the 1930s had its own film unit, the GPO Film Unit. On Thursday 30 May, 6.30-8.30pm, … Continue reading →

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Building a Socialist Library (2) “Striking a Light: The Bryant and May Matchwomen and their place in Labour History” by Louise Raw

Posted on May 23, 2013 by lipstick socialist

Striking a Light: The Bryant and May Matchwomen and their place in Labour History, Louise Raw Continuum Press ISBN 978-1-4411-1426-6 Buy it from Louise Raw’s book is not only a fascinating history of the strike of 1400 women and girls … Continue reading →

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Stop,Look,Listen…my weekly selection of favourite films, books and events to get you out of the house

Posted on May 19, 2013 by lipstick socialist

Watch…..Tsar to Lenin (Cornerhouse 27 May) Released in 1937, this ranks among the twentieth century’s greatest film documentaries. It presents an extraordinary cinematic account of the Russian Revolution; from the mass uprising which overthrew the centuries-old Tsarist regime in February … Continue reading →

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Book Review; Militant Liverpool, A City On the Edge by Diane Frost and Peter North (Liverpool University press)

Posted on May 16, 2013 by lipstick socialist

In 1982 I moved to Liverpool to take up a job as a careers adviser, working in an office on a council estate in the north of the city. Two questions were asked of me as I started my first … Continue reading →

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Stop,Look,Listen…my weekly selection of favourite films, books and events to get you out of the house

Posted on May 12, 2013 by lipstick socialist

Watch…Manchester Film Co-operative – in association with the IF Campaign –have put together two films about the real economic crisis. It’s a double billing of We’re Not Broke and the award-winning Secret City. 6.30pm – 8.pm: We’re Not Broke, the … Continue reading →

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Save the Salford Cranes!

Posted on May 9, 2013 by lipstick socialist

I heard a siren from the dock Saw a train set the night on fire Smelled the spring on the sulfured wind Dirty old town, whoa-oh, dirty old town Ewan McColl Dirty Old Town In the 1970s I was taken … Continue reading →

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Stop,Look,Listen…my weekly selection of favourite films, books and events to get you out of the house

Posted on May 5, 2013 by lipstick socialist

Watch….a mini film festival at the Working Class Movement Library…including on Wednesday 15 May at 2pm they are showing a locally made film The Condition of the Working Classes, an up-to-date take on Engels’ classic of the same name. And … Continue reading →

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Spirit of Moston 2013!

Posted on May 2, 2013 by lipstick socialist

Most people would not associate coal with Manchester nor art with the working classes. Go to the Miners Club in Moston, then, and have your prejudices shattered. A coal mine was opened in Moston in the 1850s and around it … Continue reading →

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