Category Archives: working class history

Book review; Catching Hell and DOING WELL

Posted on November 26, 2015 by lipstick socialist

This is an important book. There are few books about the lives of black women in the UK and even fewer about working class black women. Set in Moss Side in Manchester it shows the resilience of black women to … 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 22, 2015 by lipstick socialist

    Watch This Changes Everything based on Naomi Klein’s best selling book this film asks us not to fear the impact of climate change on our environment but to seize the opportunity to build a better world. Made in … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Marxism and Women’s Liberation by Judith Orr

Posted on November 19, 2015 by lipstick socialist

Recently fundraising for a play about Mary Quaile, an Irish trade unionist, our group contacted all the feminist historians in this country and Ireland. Only 2 responded and made a donation they were the socialist feminists. One of them was … Continue reading →

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Headscarf not digital revolutionaries!

Posted on July 9, 2015 by lipstick socialist

The Headscarf Revolutionaries Lillian Bilocca and the Hull Triple-Trawler Disaster by Brian W. Lavery Barbican Press £12.99 Today it is difficult to find protest groups run by working class women with northern accents. And if they do exist they are … Continue reading →

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