Category Archives: trade unions

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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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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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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“Even the pigeons have black feet”; coal and community in Salford

Posted on September 26, 2013 by lipstick socialist

Salford in Greater Manchester is one of those places that still boasts a lively community  hell bent on reminding all the rest of us of what it means to be working class. The Irwell Valley Mining Project, run by local … 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 22, 2013 by lipstick socialist

Watch…..Libertarias (1996), a film showing organised by the Manchester Film Co-operative. It’s a historical drama that explores the role that women played in the Spanish Civil War. In 1936 Spain was a deeply conservative Catholic country and the SCW offered … 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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Stop,Look,Listen…my weekly selection of favourite films, books and events to get you out of the house

Posted on August 25, 2013 by lipstick socialist

Watch..…Kuma. .the story of Ayse, a young Turkish woman, who leaves her village to join her husband and his family in his adopted country of Austria. But, as we watch Ayse arrive in Vienna, the story becomes more complicated and … 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 11, 2013 by lipstick socialist

Watch….. Parks and Recreation (DVD) it was on BBC4 but the series has now finished. Set in the fictional town of Pawnee in Indiana,USA, it centres on a group of people working in the Parks and Recreation department. Actor Amy … Continue reading →

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