Category Archives: political women

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

Posted on November 10, 2013 by lipstick socialist

Watch…Gloria(2012) She is a divorced woman in her late 50s and is looking for someone to share her life and love with. Set in Chile the past events of the dictatorship are alluded to and we get glimpses of the … 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 3, 2013 by lipstick socialist

Watch.. The Happy Lands (2012) Set in Fife in Scotland in 1926,  it uses a combination of dramatic scenes, archive film and local people as actors  to tell the story of the miners’ strike which lasted from May to November. … 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 October 27, 2013 by lipstick socialist

Watch… GASLAND 2 by Josh Fox and Matthew Sanchez – the frightening story of what fracking is doing to people’s lives in the USA. Over there its called a fracking frenzy as companies are drilling thousands of wells in major … Continue reading →

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Book review; Black Star Britain’s Asian Youth Communities

Posted on October 24, 2013 by lipstick socialist

Black Star; Britain’s Asian Youth Movements by Anandi Ramamurthy (2013) Pluto Press £17.50 South Asian communities have a respected place in the history of the left in this country, a tradition that includes Shapurji Saklatvala, born in Bombay, who was … 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 October 13, 2013 by lipstick socialist

Watch..the Battle of Algiers (1965) Like the North of Ireland to people in Britain in the 70s, so Algeria was to many French people in the 50s and 60s. An unknown part of the empire that few people visited or … Continue reading →

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Remaking Picasso’s Guernica; a response to fascism

Posted on October 10, 2013 by lipstick socialist

Picasso’s response to the bombing of Guernica in 1937, the painting Guernica, has been an inspiration to anti-fascists across the years and across the world. As the English Defence League threaten to march in Liverpool this weekend, and Tommy Robinson … Continue reading →

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Book Review; Miss Nobody by Ethel Carnie

Posted on September 5, 2013 by lipstick socialist

Ethel Carnie grew up in one of the most vibrant and progressive eras for working class people. It was a period of the birth of the trade union movement, of mass unrest on the streets and in workplaces and the … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Jim Larkin and the Great Dublin Lockout of 1913 by John Newsinger

Posted on August 22, 2013 by lipstick socialist

Review of Jim Larkin and the Great Dublin Lockout of 1913 by John Newsinger. Bookmarks publications On 26 August 2013 it will be the centenary of the Dublin Lockout. John Newsinger, author of a new book Jim Larkin and the … 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 18, 2013 by lipstick socialist

Watch…..Louie (only on DVD) written by American real life stand-up comedian Louis C.K. He is the star of the show, playing a middle aged man going through a crisis about his life. We see him performing on-stage, off-stage with his … 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 28, 2013 by lipstick socialist

Watch…CRICFEST..at Moston Small Cinema a festival of cricket inspired films. Including Out Of The Ashes a film about the Afghan cricket team ( I didn’t realise they had one) and their hopes of qualifying for the 2011 World Cup. The … Continue reading →

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