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About lipstick socialist

I am an activist and writer. My interests include women, class, culture and history. From an Irish in Britain background I am a republican and socialist. All my life I have been involved in community and trade union politics and I believe it is only through grass roots politics that we will get a better society. This is reflected in my writing, in my book Northern ReSisters Conversations with Radical Women and my involvement in the Mary Quaile Club. .If you want to contact me please use my gmail which is lipsticksocialist636

Stop,Look,Listen…my weekly selection of favourite films, books and events to get you out of the house

Posted on August 9, 2015 by lipstick socialist

Watch… Marshland at (Home). Set in the south of Spain in 1980 this crime thriller has as much to say about the politics of post Franco Spain as the workings of the police and military. Two policemen turn up in … Continue reading →

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Stop,Look,Listen…my weekly selection of favourite films, books and events to get you out of the house

Posted on August 2, 2015 by lipstick socialist

Watch Best of Enemies (Home) a documentary film on the series of televised debates in 1968 between the liberal Gore Vidal and the conservative William F. Buckley Jr. The debates were on live TV at the Republican and Democratic conventions … Continue reading →

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Stop,Look,Listen…my weekly selection of favourite films, books and events to get you out of the house

Posted on July 26, 2015 by lipstick socialist

Watch The Salt of the Earth(Home). A documentary about my favourite photographer Sebastião Salgado. I have always been fascinated by his black and white photos and by the deep humanity that is expressed through them. Over forty years he has … Continue reading →

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Manchester: a tale of two tents.

Posted on July 23, 2015 by lipstick socialist

There are two sets of tents in Manchester city centre at the moment: white expensive ones for the Manchester International Festival and shabby ones for the homeless. The MIF tents are in Albert Square next to the Town Hall while … Continue reading →

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Stop,Look,Listen…my weekly selection of favourite films, books and events to get you out of the house

Posted on July 19, 2015 by lipstick socialist

Watch Udita (Arise) a film about the garment industry in Dhaka in Bangladesh. It could be 19C Britain or 20C New York (Triangle Fire 1911). Poor impoverished, mainly women, who have left their villages to join the 4million in factories … Continue reading →

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Stop,Look,Listen…my weekly selection of favourite films, books and events to get you out of the house

Posted on July 12, 2015 by lipstick socialist

Watch Dear White People (Home), a satire on American race relations, the emphasis being on “satire”. Set in a posh university (similar to Oxford and Cambridge) somewhere in the USA it is about the power struggle between privileged black (Afro … Continue reading →

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Headscarf not digital revolutionaries!

Posted on July 9, 2015 by lipstick socialist

The Headscarf Revolutionaries Lillian Bilocca and the Hull Triple-Trawler Disaster by Brian W. Lavery Barbican Press £12.99 Today it is difficult to find protest groups run by working class women with northern accents. And if they do exist they are … Continue reading →

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Stop,Look,Listen…my weekly selection of favourite films, books and events to get you out of the house

Posted on July 5, 2015 by lipstick socialist

Watch Now More than Ever the premiere screening of a new film about people, protest and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in Greater Manchester. CND has been one of the most important national organisations in the history of radical movements … Continue reading →

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My interview with TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady

Posted on June 25, 2015 by lipstick socialist

Frances O’Grady is the first woman to be appointed to the job of General Secretary to the TUC. She faces a difficult task as trade union membership is in decline and trade union representatives are being victimised and sacked on … Continue reading →

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Stop,Look,Listen…my weekly selection of favourite films, books and events to get you out of the house

Posted on June 21, 2015 by lipstick socialist

Watch London Road (Home/AMC) I don’t usually like films about serial killers and particularly ones that are based on the murders of real women but this is an interesting and complex film about the murders of sex workers in Ipswich … Continue reading →

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