Category Archives: Salford

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

Posted on October 5, 2014 by lipstick socialist

Watch.. Still the Enemy Within (Cornerhouse and Moston Miners) an award winning documentary that was funded by individuals and trade unions. The film includes new interviews and archive material that has never been shown before. You probably know the story, … 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 10, 2014 by lipstick socialist

Watch…The Mill (Channel 4) a series created by left wing writer John Fay and set at Quarry Bank Mill in Cheshire charting the rise of radical politics. Not the usual its grim up north programme but a series that has … 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 May 18, 2014 by lipstick socialist

Watch.. Blood In The Mobile screened this week by the Manchester Film Co-operative. The film was made by Frank Poulsen, Winner of Berlin’s Cinema for Peace Award for Justice in 2011. The north west has had a Congolese community for … 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 May 11, 2014 by lipstick socialist

Watch…Tracks (AMC)..based on the book by self taught explorer Robyn Davidson who in 1977 set off across the Australian desert with a dog and four camels. It was a walk of 1,700 miles. Robyn was, and is, particularly interested 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 May 4, 2014 by lipstick socialist

Watch.. Ilo Ilo,(Cornerhouse) a film set in 1997 in Singapore. The Lim family employ a Filipino maid, Teresa, to look after their son, and whilst the family (and society generally) are obsessed with money she provides their son with much … 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 20, 2014 by lipstick socialist

Watch…Shelagh Delaney’s Salford in this film made in 1960 by Ken Russell. She was only 22 and is incredibly confident and articulate. The film shows her love of Salford and its people and a glimpse of what life was like … 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 13, 2014 by lipstick socialist

Watch…More Than Honey, a film to be screened by the Manchester Film Coop and Friends of the Earth. The film asks the question, why are colonies of bees being destroyed across the world? UK government figures suggest bee numbers have … 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 March 16, 2014 by lipstick socialist

Watch…The Invisible Woman (2013/general release). A real Victorian drama telling the story of Charles Dickens and his relationship with actress Nelly Ternan. They met when he was 45 and she was 18. He was already married with ten children and … 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 March 2, 2014 by lipstick socialist

Nowadays everybody celebrates International Women’s Day including the banks!!! Help, this is not what socialist feminists Clara Zetkin and Louise Zeitz would want. They created the day to highlight the importance of women’s struggles for equality at home, at work … Continue reading →

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Building a Socialist Library (3) Ellen Wilkinson From Red Suffragist to Government Minister by Paula Bartley

Posted on February 6, 2014 by lipstick socialist

In 1924 Ellen Wilkinson returned to her home city of Manchester as a newly elected Labour Member of Parliament and spoke to several thousand people in a cinema in Moston. She attacked the capitalist system and its effects on declining … Continue reading →

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