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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 May 5, 2013 by lipstick socialist

Watch….a mini film festival at the Working Class Movement Library…including on Wednesday 15 May at 2pm they are showing a locally made film The Condition of the Working Classes, an up-to-date take on Engels’ classic of the same name. And … Continue reading →

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Spirit of Moston 2013!

Posted on May 2, 2013 by lipstick socialist

Most people would not associate coal with Manchester nor art with the working classes. Go to the Miners Club in Moston, then, and have your prejudices shattered. A coal mine was opened in Moston in the 1850s and around it … 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 April 28, 2013 by lipstick socialist

Watch…and support Moston Small Cinema….Post Tenebras Lux Juan and his family live in the Mexican countryside and the film explores their lives, their marriage, poverty, gender and our relationship to the natural world. Maybe not the kind of film you … Continue reading →

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“The Joy and fellowship of the open fells”: the Holiday Fellowship 1913-2013

Posted on April 25, 2013 by lipstick socialist

28 April is the 81st anniversary of the day in 1932 when over 400 women and men from the Lancashire branch of the Communist inspired British Workers Sport Federation took part in a mass trespass on Kinder Scout to establish … 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 April 21, 2013 by lipstick socialist

Watch……Imagine Waking Tomorrow at Three Minute Theatre on 24 April , screening at 8pm (doors open at 7pm). The film is about Bill Drummond, artist, musician and author, most famous for creating the avant-garde group KLF and burning a million … Continue reading →

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Cut the Frack!

Posted on April 18, 2013 by lipstick socialist

Stephen Hall, activist in the Greater. Manchester TUC and also in Wigan Green Socialists, is one of the organisers of Camp Frack2 in Lancashire on the weekend of 10-12 May 2013. He believes that: It is not possible to talk … 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 April 14, 2013 by lipstick socialist

Watch…..two films and hear some live music…Manchester Film Cooperative’s next event is at the Antwerp Mansion in downtown Rusholme. Antwerp Mansion is: a renovation project, aiming to turn a beautiful but run down Victorian Mansion into a Music, Art and … Continue reading →

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A Real Working Class Hero; Steve Acheson

Posted on April 11, 2013 by lipstick socialist

Margaret Thatchers’ legacy was not just about defeating the trade unions, it was about creating a myth that working class people did not need trade unions. People came to believe that they could be like the bosses not just 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 April 7, 2013 by lipstick socialist

Watch……. Manchester on the Move . Part of the successful Thursday Lates series at Manchester City Art Gallery. The films are from the North West Film Archive and tells the story of the history of post-war transport in the North … Continue reading →

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Not for Sale; Keep Our NHS Public!

Posted on April 4, 2013 by lipstick socialist

On Tuesday 2 April, a bright but cold morning, many of us met up at the kremlin like edifice of Media City in Salford. The staff going in to work avoided us, thinking that we had come to protest at … Continue reading →

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