Thursday, September 27, 2012

100th Anniversary of Cornish Clay Workers Union Strike 1913

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Cornish Guardian Nearly 100 years ago Clay workers in Cornwall went on strike for better pay struckSo strong was their uprising t...
Saturday, September 22, 2012

Plebs 1929 - No War - But Class War

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National Council of Labour Colleges "This Class is great stuff"
Wednesday, September 19, 2012

100th Anniversary of the election of the first Labour County Councillor in 1892

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In March 1892 George Garside, a Slaithwaite born blacksmith and founder of Slaithwaite Social Democratic Club was elected to West Riding...
Friday, September 07, 2012

Billy Bragg Recalls Establishing Red Wedge 1985

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Billy Bragg recalls setting up Red Wedge in November 1985 The first time I had met most of the musicians in this picture was at the ...
Thursday, September 06, 2012

The Leaders and MP's of the Irish Party

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The Irish Party (Members of Parliament)  Harpers Monthly August 1887  Click on picture to enlarge The year 1868 was the...
Tuesday, September 04, 2012

Stalingrad - “For us there was no land beyond the Volga,” 23/8/1942

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STALINGRAD 1942  THE HOUR OF COURAGE HAD STRUCK THE CLOCK We know what’s at stake and how great the foe’s power, / And what is...

Sylvia Townsend Warner - Harrow Radical Heroine

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With the Hunted: Sylvia Townsend Warner  Selected Writings Black Dog Books, £16.99  Friday 31 August 2012  by Angel Dahouk With th...
Friday, August 31, 2012

Peter Pink 1929 - 2012

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Peter Pink Morning Star & Hayes Communist Peter Pink was born in 1929 at Stockwell, South London. His father was a policeman, lea...
Friday, August 17, 2012

"Daisy Daisy, Give Me your Answer, Do" - "Join The Clarion's"

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Daisy Greville, The Countess of Warwick Aristocratic Convert By Sylvia Alving In her Autobiography published in 1929, Lif...