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Dare to be Free ; the life of Irish Trade Unionist Mary Quaile

Posted on October 22, 2015 by lipstick socialist

The film Sufragette gives a very sanitised and selective view of the lives of working class women in this country. The main character, Maud, is a victim of her husband and her exploitative employer, and when she gets involved with … 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 18, 2015 by lipstick socialist

Watch Suffragette (general release), set in the East End of London in 1912. Maud Watts is a laundry worker who becomes involved in the suffragette movement as it escalates its policy of direct action. Her personal life is destroyed as … Continue reading →

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Book review; “Ujamaa The hidden story of Tanzania’s socialist villages” Ralph Ibbott

Posted on October 15, 2015 by lipstick socialist

From 15-20 October 1945 a meeting of the Pan African Congress took place in the Town Hall, Chorlton-on-Medlock in Manchester. Activists from across the Caribbean and Africa got together with trade unionists and anti-imperialist groups to raise the issue of … 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 11, 2015 by lipstick socialist

Watch Red Army not just about the Soviet military machine and its hockey team but an insightful documentary about what individual Soviet citizens felt about their country and its ideology. Sport, whether the USA or the Soviet Union, was always … 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 4, 2015 by lipstick socialist

Watch Mia Madre(Home) made by Italian filmmaker, Nanni Moretti, who also plays the son, Giovanni , in the film. Two siblings face the death of their mother and react in different ways. The daughter, Margherita (Margherita Buy) is a Ken … 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 27, 2015 by lipstick socialist

Watch Tangerines a fascinating film set in eastern Europe about a war that barely made the international headlines. Between 1992 and 1993 a war took place in Abkhazia in Georgia where separatists wanted to create an independent state. The film … 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 20, 2015 by lipstick socialist

Watch “The Munduruku Indians: Weaving Resistance” a documentary, set in Brazil, and telling the story of how the indigeneous people are having their land being expropriated by the government to build dams across the Amazon river. In the 1980s when … 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 13, 2015 by lipstick socialist

Watch Better Call Saul (Netflix only) if you watched, Breaking Bad, the US series about a science teacher who becomes a drug dealer, then you will remember his lawyer Saul Goodman. This is his story and how he goes from … 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 30, 2015 by lipstick socialist

Watch 45 years (Home) is about older people and relationships, not the usual subject for British films. Kate and Geoff Mercer (Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay) are a couple about to celebrate their 45th wedding anniversary when a letter from … Continue reading →

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Book Review; Mrs Engels by Gavin Mc Crea

Posted on August 27, 2015 by lipstick socialist

Some people in the northwest might be a bit unhappy with a novel about the lives of local hero and heroines Fred Engels and Mary and Lizzie Burns. But in his first novel, Mrs Engels, Gavin McCrea has at least … Continue reading →

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