Category Archives: book review

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

Posted on February 21, 2016 by lipstick socialist

      Watch Groundswell; A Grassroots Journey, screening  organised by Manchester Film Cooperative and Keep Our NHS Public Greater Manchester on I March at 7.30pm. It is really important that filmmakers document social movements and this was funded by … Continue reading →

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Book review; 1916 Ireland’s Revolutionary Tradition by Kieran Allen

Posted on February 18, 2016 by lipstick socialist

It is 2016 and this year is the 100th anniversary of the Easter Rising in Dublin. It was on 24 April 1916 that a group of socialists and republicans struck a blow against the imperial power of Britain and its … Continue reading →

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Hotel and Catering Workers Unite!

Posted on January 28, 2016 by lipstick socialist

    Reading these two pamphlets reminds me of a poem by Bertholt Brecht, Questions from a Worker who Reads. In it he points out that real history is made by the people at the bottom of society; in this … 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 November 22, 2015 by lipstick socialist

    Watch This Changes Everything based on Naomi Klein’s best selling book this film asks us not to fear the impact of climate change on our environment but to seize the opportunity to build a better world. Made in … Continue reading →

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