Category Archives: Salford

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

Posted on January 26, 2014 by lipstick socialist

Watch…Gasland Part 2. Find out about what fracking is about and how it is now taking place in over 32 countries across the world. Fracking is a dangerous process and one that can seriously destroy local communities, never mind destroy … 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 19, 2014 by lipstick socialist

Watch…Cheers (DVD and ITV4)…at this time of the year we all need cheering up and this does it for me! Made in the 1980s this American series showed how class and feminism can be made interesting and relevant to big … Continue reading →

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Reasons to be cheerful in 2014!

Posted on January 1, 2014 by lipstick socialist

Many people feel isolated and depressed about the constant onslaught on our civil society by the Con/Dem government but you can do something about it! There are plenty of campaigns to get involved in. Here is my selection for 2014…… … 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 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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Remember, remember the 5 November…..

Posted on November 7, 2013 by lipstick socialist

In the news this week the Department for Work and Pensions announced that more than 400,000 people have lost Jobseekers Allowance under new government sanctions. Employment Minister Esther McVey said that people were paid Jobseeker’s Allowance only if they were … 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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Stop,Look,Listen…my weekly selection of favourite films, books and events to get you out of the house

Posted on October 20, 2013 by lipstick socialist

Watch…The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology(DVD) a film made by cuddly philosopher Slavoj Žižek. I love films that try and to educate us about big ideas and Zizek is the opposite (!!) of the usual squeaky clean presenter. The film exposes … 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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Stop,Look,Listen…my weekly selection of favourite films, books and events to get you out of the house

Posted on October 6, 2013 by lipstick socialist

Watch….the Miners Hymns (2012) by Bill Morrison at the Small Cinema in Moston.. A fascinating film made about the coal industry in the north east of England. Woven into the film is rare footage from the British Film Institute, 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 September 29, 2013 by lipstick socialist

Watch…..Hannah Arendt, (14 October 1906 – 4 December 1975)   a  fictionalised account of the life of Hannah Arendt by acclaimed German filmmaker Margarethe von Trotta. Hannah was a philosopher and political theorist who reported on the war crimes trial of … Continue reading →

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