Saturday, September 21, 2013

100th Anniversary - Kilbirnie Women Workers Strike 1913

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Women workers in the numerous fishing net factories of Kilbirnie (Ayrshie, Scotland) entered into a battle to secure improved pay and uni...
Monday, September 16, 2013

Mr Chairman by Wal Hannington

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Mr Chairman by Wal Hannington  - Farleigh press (1950) "Some years ago I was asked to draft a small handbook for (trade union) ...
Sunday, September 15, 2013

Engineering union members at Grunwick 1977

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Engineering Union members picketing Grunwick,February 1977 with AUEW Engineering Union banners. Notably Acton and London north District ...

Hillingdon Dinner Ladies Dispute 1985

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1985 Campaign by Hillingdon school meals staff to defend term and conditions (The Conservative controlled Council wanted to stop reta...
Saturday, September 14, 2013

Tony Benn speaking at UCS work-in 1971 (The turning point)

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Wednesday, September 11, 2013

What are the conditions for the growth of Fascism

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What wrote R Palme Dutt in his book "Fascism and social revolution" are the general conditions for the growth of Fascism ?...
Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Gagging Free Trade Unions and "Gleichschaltung" in 1930's Germany

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For the German trade unions of the Weimar Republic the union journal was the primary means of communication ; the leadership of the ...

Southall Socialist Sunday School

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Southall Socialist Sunday school was established in 1922. (probably May 1922) meeting at the Co-operative Hall, King Street, Southall ever...

The First Labour Party 1869 TUC/Labour Representation League

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The Labour Representation League (Left Alexander MacDonald (Stafford) - Right Thomas Burt (Morpeth) It can be argued that The Labour ...

Parti Communiste Guadeloupeen

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The Communiast Party of Guadeloupe has always been historically strong on the islands, it was founded in 1958 and has been historicall...

20th anniversary of murder of Irish Citizen Army leader James Connolly 1936

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  Irish Embassy in London - Irish Republicans attach a banner to the balcony on the anniversary of James Connolly's death 12th May ...

The Russians Lost 27 Million Fighting Fascism - Prime Minister

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How dare Tory Prime Minister David Cameron suggest in Russia, that it was the British (alone) who wiped the Nazi's from Europe. Whe...
Thursday, September 05, 2013

"A people's art is the genesis of their freedom" Claudia Jones - Notting Hill 1959

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Claudia Jones  the great community organiser and committed trade unionist stated at the launch of the first Notting Hill Carnival on 30th...
Wednesday, September 04, 2013

We Shall Overcome - 1963

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Burston School Strike - Southall National Union of Railwaymen

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A brick commemorating a donation to the Burston School strike school in Burston, nr Diss, Norfolk from Southall National Union of...

Daily Herald 1930 - Will You Do this Great Thing For Labour

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click to enlarge "Will you do this great thing for Labour"..... "I think you will !" Ernest Bevin This ...

Daily Herald 1930 Relaunch - Labour Women

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Susan Lawerence MP Ellen Wilkinson MP Marion Philips MP Cynthia Mosley MP Margaret Bondfield MP Ethel Bentham MP Jen...
Saturday, June 15, 2013

The People's Convention of January 1941 - The Peoples Assembly 2013

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The People's Convention January 1941 The Peoples Convention Sunday 12th January 1941 London 2,300 delegates Delegates tell ...