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Category Archives: Salford
History of the Irish in Britain Representation Group Part nine: 1989
Patrick Reynolds was one of the founders of IBRG and played a key role in its history. He is now writing up that history and putting it into the context of radical history in Britain and Ireland in the C20th. … Continue reading
Posted in anti-cuts, Bernadette McAliskey, education, feminism, films, human rights, Ireland, Irish second generation, labour history, Manchester, North of Ireland, political women, Salford, Socialism, trade unions, Uncategorized, women, working class history, young people
Tagged Bernadette McAliskey, IBRG
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My review of “Threads of Life. A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle” Clare Hunter
I found this book in a charity shop and it opened my eyes to a different world; the world of sewing and the important place it has in all of our memories. As a socialist I have marched behind and … Continue reading
Posted in book review, Communism, education, feminism, Ireland, Irish second generation, labour history, North of Ireland, political women, Salford, Socialism, Socialist Feminism, trade unions, Uncategorized, women, working class history, young people
Tagged Clare Hunter, Kate Magee Campaign, mary quaile, MSWTUC, Phil and Jill Donnellan, Threads of Life
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History of the Irish in Britain Representation Group by Patrick Reynolds.Part 5; 1985
Patrick Reynolds was one of the founders of IBRG and played a key role in its history. He is now writing up that history and putting it into the context of radical history in Britain and Ireland in the C20th. … Continue reading
Posted in education, human rights, Ireland, Irish second generation, labour history, Manchester, North of Ireland, political women, Salford, Socialist Feminism, trade unions, Uncategorized, women, working class history, young people
Tagged "At the Edge of the Union", Bolton IBRG, Christine Crawley, Clare Short M.P., Gearoid McGearailt, Irish in Britain Representation Group, Irish Line BBC Radio Programme Manchester, Joe Mullarkey, Maire O'Shea, Patrick Reynolds, Prevention of Terrorism Act
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My review of exhibition “Return to Manchester” Martin Parr
In the 1980s the Left wing Labour council in Manchester flew a banner over the Town Hall proclaiming their determination to defend jobs and services against the Tory government . In 2018 it is the cranes of property developers … Continue reading
Posted in art exhibition, Ireland, Manchester, Salford, Uncategorized
Tagged Manchester, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester City Council 1980s, Martin Parr
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Rising Up; How the MSWTUC worked with the Bakers’ Union to organise women confectioners.
In 2018 the numbers of trade union members is on the decline: many young people do not see the point of joining. Some unions, such as the Baking Food and Allied Workers Union, are bucking that trend and young people … Continue reading
Posted in education, feminism, human rights, labour history, Manchester, political women, Salford, trade unions, Uncategorized, women, working class history, young people
Tagged BFAWU, mary quaile, MSWTUC, Olive Aldridge
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The Irish Collection at the WCML: a new chapter- the role of the Irish in Britain Representation Group. Part One.
Over the centuries the Irish have played a key role in the labour and trade union movement in this country. The Working Class Movement Library has some of the most important archives which document this activity and show the … Continue reading
Posted in Catholicism, Communism, education, feminism, human rights, Ireland, Irish second generation, labour history, Manchester, North of Ireland, political women, Salford, Socialism, Socialist Feminism, trade unions, Uncategorized, women, working class history, young people
Tagged Desmond Greaves, Irish in Britain Representation Group, Irish in Britain Representation Group e, Tommy Jackson, Working Class Movement Library
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“…the point is to change it”: Remembering Ruth and Eddie Frow and the WCML
Last Saturday’s event commemorated the lives of the Frows, showing how their belief in communism was about grassroots activity which included the creation of the Working Class Movement Library in the 1950s. They wanted to encourage future generations to … Continue reading
Posted in anti-cuts, Communism, drama, education, feminism, human rights, labour history, music, political women, Salford, Socialism, trade unions, Uncategorized, women, working class history, young people
Tagged Bertolt Brecht, BFAWU, NUUW, ruth and eddie frow, Tameside against the Cuts, The Song of the Old Communist, Young Communist League Cheetham Hill
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Political Women; Lauren, Trade Union Activist and Revolutionary Socialist
Lauren, aged 22 years, represents a new generation of young workers who are following in the footsteps of past activists such as Mary Quaile, who never wavered in her belief that trade unions were the key to women and men … Continue reading
Posted in anti-cuts, feminism, human rights, labour history, Manchester, political women, Salford, Socialist Feminism, trade unions, Uncategorized, women
Tagged BFAWU, McDonalds Strike
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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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Minutes of Manchester and Salford Women’s Trades Union Council 1903-1905
This is my fourth post about the Manchester and Salford Women’s Trade Union Council, and covers the years 1903-1905. By 1903 the Council was an established organisation which individuals and organisations contacted, not just for help with organising women into … Continue reading
Posted in education, feminism, human rights, labour history, Manchester, political women, Salford, Socialism, trade unions, Uncategorized, women, working class history, young people
Tagged Christabel Pankhurst, eva gore booth, Manchester and Salford Womens Trades Union Council, Margaret Ashton, Miss Gaskell, Sarah Dickenson
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