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Category Archives: occupy
Stop,Look,Listen…my weekly selection of favourite films, books and events to get you out of the house
Watch… Nebraska..life is not all black and white and a seemingly simple story of an older man’s belief that he was won a million dollars forces a family to confront their feelings about each other. Woody(played by Bruce Dern) is … Continue reading
Posted in anti-cuts, drama, education, feminism, films, human rights, labour history, NHS, occupy, trade unions, Uncategorized, women, young people
Tagged Frack off, karen Woods, Nebraska, Rochdale Pioneers, Teabag and tears
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Book review; This Changes Everything Occupy Wall Street and the 99% Movement
This Changes Everything Occupy Wall Street and the 99% Movement Edited by Sarah van Gelder and the staff of YES! Magazine ISBN 978-1-60994-587-9 The Occupy movement in this country was dominated by events at St. Paul’s in London, but smaller … Continue reading
Lipstick Socialist Awards 2012
Welcome to 2013! Thanks to everyone who made nominations. Hope it is inspirational for all of us in 2013 and there is certainly lots to be learnt from the choices made. Here’s to the New Year!! Trade Unionist of the … Continue reading
Posted in anti-cuts, book review, Communism, disabled people's campaigns, feminism, films, human rights, labour history, Middle East, music, occupy, Palestine, political women, Salford, Socialism, trade unions, women, young people
Tagged ATOS, cgt, DPAC, mark serotka, palestine, PCS, salford star, sarah gillespie, Selma James, snows of kilmajaro, spanish miners strike, trade union news, united nations
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Still Anarchy in the UK in 2012!
My politics have been influenced by my background, including class, and the era that I grew up in. So trade unions, community and the women’s movement have dictated where I have put my political energies in past years. But in … Continue reading
Posted in anti-cuts, Communism, feminism, human rights, Ireland, labour history, Manchester, occupy, political women, Salford, Socialism, trade unions, women, young people
Tagged abortion, anarchism, footprint workers collective, International Brigade Memorial Trust, North West Labour History journal
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Stop,Look,Listen…my weekly selection of favourite films, books and events to get you out of the house
Watch…..Manchester Film Co-op and Manchester Open Rights Group are screening The Real Social Network, a film about the new generation of protest. Between the first UK student protests in November 2010 and the global uprising in the spring of 2011, … Continue reading
Posted in anti-cuts, art exhibition, Communism, feminism, films, human rights, occupy, Salford, Socialism, Socialist Feminism, trade unions, women, young people
Tagged campaign for the book, chernobyl Exhibition, Kensal Rise library, manchester Film Cooperative, Selma James, whitworth art gallery
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Political Women (2): Mandy Vere
Feminist, campaigner for social justice, mother of 2 grown up children, radical bookseller……….. Mandy Vere was born and grew up in Stockport. Her parents were Quakers and socialists, activists of the Labour Party: I grew up in a Quaker household … Continue reading
Book review; Socialism with a Northern Accent……
Socialism with a Northern Accent; Radical traditions for modern times by Paul Salveson Lawrence & Wishart ISBN 978-1-907103-39-1 In 1998 at the Brit awards the anarcho punk band Chumbawamba attempted to throw a bucket of water over John Prescott … Continue reading
Stop, Look, Listen………excerpts from my Roman Holiday…….
Watch…Christ stopped at Eboli (DVD) originally a book by Carlo Levi, an anti-fascist, who in 1935 was sent into internal exile by Mussolini. The title comes from a saying by southern Italians that the area has been neglected even by … Continue reading
Posted in anti-cuts, biography, book review, Communism, drama, films, human rights, music, occupy, Salford, Socialism, young people
Tagged christ stopped at eboli, filippa.secret gardens, future artists, occupy the parthenon, rome
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