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Author Archives: lipstick socialist
My review of “Why We March: Signs of Protest and Hope”.
On 21 January 2017 several hundred women (and some men) gathered in Albert Square in Manchester in support of women’s rights, and in solidarity with similar events taking place in Washington DC on Trump’s first full day as … Continue reading
My review of Milosz: A Biography by Andrzej Franaszek. (Edited and Translated by Aleksandra Parker Michael Parker)
Andrzej Franaszek’s biography of the great Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz is more than the story of one man’s life: it is a compelling history of Eastern Europe in the twentieth century. Milosz was born in 1911 in Lithuania but … Continue reading
Posted in biography, book review, Catholicism, Communism, human rights, labour history, poetry, trade unions, Uncategorized, working class history
Tagged Captive Mind, Czeslaw Milosz, Poland, Solidarity
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Days of Hope: an article by Mary Quaile on her visit to the Soviet Union in 1925
2017 is the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution and it is difficult today to understand the hope that the revolution gave to ordinary women and men across the world. One of those women was Mary Quaile. An Irish immigrant … Continue reading
My Review of The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievich
It is only recently that women in the UK have been able to take up frontline roles in the armed forces but in liberation struggles across the world from Northern Ireland to present day Northern Iraq there are plenty … Continue reading
Political Women: Sandy Rose, Socialist, Feminist, Trade Unionist
In this occasional series I ask the question; why do some women become political activists? Sandy Rose was part of the post war generation that lived at a time of great hope, this is her story……….. “I was born … Continue reading
Posted in anti-cuts, biography, Communism, education, feminism, human rights, labour history, Manchester, NHS, political women, Salford, Socialism, Socialist Feminism, trade unions, Uncategorized, women, working class history, young people
Tagged Case Con, International Socialists, LSE 1968, NUPE, Sandy Rose
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My review of “Struggle or Starve, Working Class Unity in Belfast’s 1932 Outdoor Relief Riots” by Sean Mitchell
“Struggle or Starve” could be an epithet for UK in 2017 as the government pursues its policy of persecuting the poor. In this new book Sean Mitchell, socialist and founder of Ireland’s People before Profit Party, reminds us of an … Continue reading
My review of “A Manual for Cleaning Women” by Lucia Berlin
I love this novel for lots of reasons, but primarily because it is written about the people who rarely get any publicity but who are the people who make a bigger contribution to creating a good society than anyone else. … Continue reading
Posted in book review, Communism, drama, feminism, Uncategorized, women, working class history
Tagged A Manual for Cleaning Women, Lucia Berlin
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