Category Archives: anti-cuts

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

Posted on January 31, 2016 by lipstick socialist

  Watch Spotlight (nationwide). A fantastic film about the importance of investigative journalism in rooting out the abuse of power in high places. Set in Boston (USA) in 2001 the film  is about how the local paper, The Boston Globe, … 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 January 24, 2016 by lipstick socialist

Watch Winifred Carney: A reflection on the life and times of the suffragist and trade unionist. In this fascinating documentary we learn about a woman who was a revolutionary socialist feminist. She was born into a lower middle class family … 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 January 17, 2016 by lipstick socialist

    Watch AmaZulu The Children of Heaven (2006) (youtube), a documentary  made in South Africa about a high school, its Head Teacher and seven students. Velabahleke High School in Durban South Africa is the best of schools: it is … 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 January 3, 2016 by lipstick socialist

Watch And start the year by being inspired by northwest writer and socialist Jim Allen at a retrospective at Home.Jim would have hated it. In the 80s he did make an appearance at the Cornerhouse (now Home) but he said … Continue reading →

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Reasons to be cheerful in 2016!

Posted on December 24, 2015 by lipstick socialist

Dear Friends This is my last post of 2015, a year in which I had my first book published; Northern ReSisters Conversations with Radical Women. The women in my book have changed their lives and the history of this country … 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 December 13, 2015 by lipstick socialist

Watch The Doctor Blake Mysteries (BBC daily 2.15pm and Iplayer) A brilliant Australian crime series that I had to watch on Lovefilm but is now being shown on the BBC. Lucian Blake returns to his hometown Ballarat after 30 years … Continue reading →

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Book review; Catching Hell and DOING WELL

Posted on November 26, 2015 by lipstick socialist

This is an important book. There are few books about the lives of black women in the UK and even fewer about working class black women. Set in Moss Side in Manchester it shows the resilience of black women to … 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 12, 2015 by lipstick socialist

Watch ….Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries(DVD)…it is an Australian television series based on Kerry Greenwood’s Phryne Fisher Murder Mystery novels. Set after the First World War Miss Fisher is a thoroughly modern woman. We do not get to know much about … 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 5, 2015 by lipstick socialist

Watch.. a documentary that shows how even a group of working class girls can stop their friends from being deported. They are the Glasgow Girls, a group of seven school friends, who live in Glasgow. In 2005 one of their … Continue reading →

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Book review; Honourable Friends? Parliament and the Fight for Change by Caroline Lucas

Posted on April 2, 2015 by lipstick socialist

Last week I attended the book launch of Lisa Mckenzie’s “Getting By” in a church community centre in Longsight. I am an atheist and reluctant go into any religious venue and it is not a place that I would expect … Continue reading →

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