Category Archives: Socialism

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

Posted on July 29, 2012 by lipstick socialist

Watch…A World Apart (1988) Written by Shawn Slovo, the daughter of S.African Communist activists Ruth First and Jo Slovo. Molly, a 13 year old living in Safrica in 1963 is the daughter of political activists who oppose the apatheid government. … Continue reading →

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Book review; Behind the Lines by Michael Crowley

Posted on July 26, 2012 by lipstick socialist

Behind the Lines; Creative Writing with Offenders and People at Risk – Michael Crowley Waterside Press ISBN 978-1-904380-78-8 There is a treasure in the heart of every person if only you can find it (Winston Churchill) Micheal Crowley has been … 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 22, 2012 by lipstick socialist

Watch…Nostalgia for the Light a new film by Chilean director Patricio Guzman. He contrasts the beauty of his home countrys’ Atacama desert and its hidden history of concentration camps and Pinochets’ regime. The desert has some of the most wonderful … Continue reading →

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Book review; Socialism with a Northern Accent……

Posted on July 19, 2012 by lipstick socialist

Socialism with a Northern Accent; Radical traditions for modern times by Paul Salveson Lawrence & Wishart ISBN 978-1-907103-39-1   In 1998 at the Brit awards the anarcho punk band Chumbawamba attempted to throw a bucket of water over John Prescott … Continue reading →

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Eva Gore- Booth: Irish feminist, political activist, poet..

Posted on July 5, 2012 by lipstick socialist

Eva Gore- Booth An Image of such politics by Sonja Tiernan (Manchester University Press) ISBN 978-0-7190-8232-0 Ruth and Eddie Frow were the first people to tell me about Eva Gore- Booth and her companion and fellow activist Esther Roper. They … Continue reading →

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Stop, Look, Listen………excerpts from my Roman Holiday…….

Posted on June 17, 2012 by lipstick socialist

Watch…Christ stopped at Eboli (DVD) originally a book by Carlo Levi, an anti-fascist, who in 1935 was sent into internal exile by Mussolini. The title comes from a saying by southern Italians that the area has been neglected even by … Continue reading →

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Leila Khaled; Icon of Palestinian Liberation

Posted on June 7, 2012 by lipstick socialist

Sarah Irving, Leila Khaled Icon of Palestinian Liberation Pluto Press ISBN 987-0-7453-2951-2 Reading this book reminded me of another icon in my own community, Bernadette Devlin McAliskey. Like Leila, she grew up in an occupied country and has spent her … Continue reading →

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Down with the crowned ruffians….

Posted on May 31, 2012 by lipstick socialist

Of more worth is one honest man to society and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived. —Thomas Paine In 1978 Jim Allen’s play, The Spongers, was broadcast on the BBc in its Play … Continue reading →

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Bill Brand; It is the People who Create………

Posted on May 17, 2012 by lipstick socialist

Bill Brand (played by Jack Shepherd) speaking at a workers occupation Bill Brand, a TV series broadcast on ITV in the summer of 1976, was written by one of Britain’s (and Manchester’s) greatest playwrights, Trevor Griffiths. The drama is the … Continue reading →

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My interview with playwright Lee Hall

Posted on May 10, 2012 by lipstick socialist

George Orwell in The Road to Wigan Pier wrote this about miners: “In a way it is even humiliating to watch coal miners working. It raises in you a momentary doubt about your own status as an ‘intellectual’ and a … Continue reading →

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