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| Sylvia Pankhurst addressing a crowd at Bow, London |
RaHN meeting on Sylvia Pankhurst and the
suffragettes
Wednesday 29th June 7.30 p.m., Wood Green Social Club
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Event in the Manchester Histories Festival Saturday 4th June
Mary Quaile Club will be launching our second publication Dare to Be free: women in trade unions, past and present. The event will begin at 2pm in Three Minute Theatre, Afflecks Arcade, 35-37 Oldham Street, Manchester M1 1JG. The event is free and is part of the Manchester Histories Festival.
Bernadette Hyland, co-author, will be speaking about the publication and we are delighted that Khadija, Robert and Ana from the Hotel Workers branch of Unite will be joining us for the launch to share their experiences.
As part of the launch at 3.30pm there will the final performance of Dare to Be Free, a play about Mary Quaile and cafe workers, commissioned by us and written by Jane McNulty. It is directed by Bill Hopkinson and performed by Rebecca Brown, Catherine Kinsella, Rachel Priest and Catarina Soromenho. It last 30 minutes.
If you cannot attend the launch, but would still like to buy this publication, you can do so through News from Nowhere bookshop http://www.newsfromnowhere.org.uk/books/DisplayBookInfo.php?ISBN=9780993224713
[New message] We will be running a Mary Quaile Club stall at the
Manchester Histories Festival Celebration Day in Manchester Town Hall at this
Saturday [June 11]. The day starts at 10.30 am. We will be selling our two publications: Northern ReSisters:
conversations with radical women and Dare to Be Free: women in
trade unions, past and present. Please
come and say hello if you are going to this event.
As well as stalls there are a number of talks, including a panel on
the homeless with a variety of speakers but nobody who was actually
homeless. We protested to Manchester Histories about this and
provided them with a contact so we will see if this person appears
on the panel...
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And from WCML:
Working Class Movement Library
51 The Crescent,
Salford, M5 4WX
Manchester Histories Festival Celebration Day
If you are at the Celebration
Day at Manchester Town Hall this Saturday come and say hello at the Library
stand!
We are very pleased to be part of Manchester Histories Festival’s Manchester
Celebration Day 2016 which is taking place across Manchester Town Hall and
Central Library from 10:30 to 4pm on Saturday 11 June. Bringing together nearly
100 histories and heritage organisations from across Greater Manchester, the
Manchester Celebration Day includes exhibition stands, games, heritage bus
rides, craft activities, film screenings, performances and talks. More at
manchesterhistories.co.uk
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Memories of SolidarityA Manchester Histories Festival
event will be hosted at the Library on Friday 10 June at 2pm.
'Memories of solidarity' brings together some of the recent history of
solidarity in the Manchester area using people's recollections, photos, posters
and other items. Feel free to bring your own story or just come and
listen.
More details at website,
or via geoff.brown@gmail.com or 07972 928902.
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Love on the Dole
From
5 to 9 July at 7pm, starting at Islington Mill,
Salford Community Theatre will be performing an adaptation of Walter
Greenwood's novel
Love on the Dole.
Following the story of Harry Hardcastle, a young engineer apprentice at
Marlowe’s Engineering Plant,
Love on the Dole captures the joys and
hardships of working people’s lives in 1930s Salford.
A new adaptation written for a community cast, this production has brought
together over twenty local people to create a promenade performance. Using some
of the actual locations described in the novel, the production aims to bring
Greenwood’s characters to life in Salford today, drawing parallels between the
poverty described in the book and the effects of austerity and cuts in 2016.
Tickets (£11/£8 concessions, both plus booking fee) are available online at
http://www.salfordcommunitytheatre.org,
or from Creation Cafe in The Angel Centre on Chapel Street every Thursday
11-2pm and Friday 12-3pm. NB Audience members will be required to stand during
the first act and some of act 2.
Islington Mill, 1 St James Street, Salford M3 5HW.
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Correction re Rochdale WEA talk. In our last e-bulletin we listed a talk
due to take place on 25 June at the Rochdale Pioneers Museum
. We
now understand that the date on the leaflet was incorrect and that the talk has
already taken place. Sorry about that - if you picked up one of the
leaflets here at the Library, please discard it...
As reported in our last e-bulletin, the
Living History performance No Power
on Earth, originally commissioned by the Library and again featuring Joel
Parry as Salford conscientious objector James Hudson, will be staged on
Sunday
12 June at 1pm at the Friends Meeting House in Manchester.
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Democracy Drop In
"Democracy may be a right, but too often in the world it is a
privilege. On Saturday 2 July between 11am and 2pm, as part of the
Library's joint project with the People’s History Museum Voting
for Change, you can come and see some of the exciting newly acquired
objects that help both organisations better tell the history of the fight for
the vote. These include an archive of election material from North Lincolnshire
- including expenses spent on beer and breakfasts for voters - and an 1819
cartoon arguing it would be ‘the scum’ who would rise to the top if more people
got the vote."
This is a drop in session with no need to book and a chance
to get up close to these historic objects. A member of staff will be on hand
with tea and discussion – neither will be compulsory.
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NEWS FROM NOWHERE CLUB
Patron: Peter Hennessy
Founded in 1996, the club challenges the commercialisation & isolation of modern life.
We meet monthly on Saturday evening.
‘Fellowship is life & the lack of fellowship is death’. William Morris
** 21stANNIVERSARY YEAR!**
Saturday 9th July 2016
NOWHERE …………….
Confessions of a Blue Badge Guide
Speaker: Brian Hicks
"When I originally qualified as a professional Blue Badge Guide some 20 years ago, I had no idea where it might take me. Educationally I have become a different person. I always had a fascination with history and now have an excuse to enjoy learning about the subject. I think it was George Bernard Shaw who said, ‘You should make your obsession your profession’. This I have done. So come and learn how you could become a guide and some of the more quirky historical facts I have accumulated. Find out the truth about Henry VIII, about Elizabeth 1st’s bad temper, how the present Queen goes to the theatre incognito and why the Bishop of Durham’s anus is on display in London!’ Brian lives in Walthamstow. His walks in London are fascinating, informative and funny."
Venue Epicentre, West Street, Leytonstone E11 4LJ
Times 7.30pm: Buffet (bring something if you can). 8-10pm Talk & discussion
Travel Stratford stations & 257 bus Leytonstone tube (exit left) & 257/W14 bus. Overground: Leytonstone High Rd, turn right & short walk
Access Disabled access, car park, bikes can be brought in, quiet children welcome. You can phone to confirm the talk will be as shown.
Meetings open to all - just turn up. Enquiries 0208 555 5248 / 0-208 520 7370
Free entry / raffle / voluntary donations
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Radical women, 1880-1914 - public conference
On Saturday 17 September 10am to 4pm the Library is
organising a conference at the Old Fire Station, Crescent, Salford (courtesy of
the University of Salford) with keynote speakers Sheila Rowbotham and Karen
Hunt.
It will celebrate the battles and achievements
of working class women in the drive to achieve a fairer and more balanced
society. Public-facing proposals for 30-minute papers on any aspect of
female radicalism have been invited, and details will be announced shortly at http://www.wcml.org.uk/radicalwomenconf.
Conference fee: £20 waged; £7.50 unwaged (including lunch). Places must
be reserved and paid for in advance. Please email Royston Futter,
trustees@wcml.org.uk
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Seminar - Kevin Davey on J B Priestley
New
Anarchist Research Group
Saturday, 25 June 2016 2.00pm to 4.30 pm at the MayDay Rooms, 88 Fleet Street,
London EC4Y 1DH - The nearest tube station is St Paul's, but there are others
close by.
J B PRIESTLEY: A Good Companion in our times?
Kevin Davey
"Author, broadcaster and cofounder of CND, J B Priestley was a loose cannon on
the left for most of the twentieth century. Are his ethical socialism,
antipathy to the big state and focus on community still relevant today?
"Kevin Davey is a libertarian socialist, formerly editor of New Times and chair of the Socialist
Society, author of English
Imaginaries (1999) and
co-author with Paul Anderson of Moscow
Gold: the Soviet Union and the British Left (2014)."
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Marx Memorial Library
Talk - Saturday 4th June
London Recruits - The Secret War Against Apartheid.
6pm at Marx Memorial Library. 37A Clerkenwell Green. London. EC1R
0DU.
The true story of the young people from London who went to South Africa
to fight apartheid. Speakers include Ronnie Kasrils (former Minister for
Intelligence Services), and other recruits. Tickets £3.
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Sunday 12th June (n.b. not Saturday as previously stated here)
Book Sale at the Marx Memorial Library
11am to 3pm at Marx Memorial Library. 37A Clerkenwell Green. London.
EC1R 0DU.
Join us for our quarterly second handbook sale featuring books and
pamphlets on a range of radical history subjects including the history of
marxism and the trade union movement - come and grab yourself a bargain
"... as there will be lots of radical history bargains!"
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[From CND:] Appeal for support at Burghfield protest:
CND sends congratulations to Trident Ploughshares and all those
who have participated in the very successful blockade of AWE Burghfield this
week. This is the site near Aldermaston which works on the development and
production of Britain's nuclear warheads. The protest aims to raise awareness
of the forthcoming parliamentary decision on replacing the Trident nuclear
weapons system.
Campaigners have blockaded one of the gates, day and night, since Monday,
stopping all traffic to and from the site in the process.
During the day the blockaders have been joined by many supporters from across
the country and internationally. But the same group of people have been staying
overnight to maintain the blockade. Now they need to leave!
More people are needed at the site to take their place. Are you free this
weekend and can get to AWE Burghfield, West Berkshire?
If so please contact Angie on 07456 588943 or email
admin@tridentploughshares.org. Please pass this on to anyone you think might be interested in joining the protesters.
Click here for more information on the blockade, whichcontinues throughout the month
.Click here to see The Guardian's coverage of the protest.
Mad Hatters’ Tea Party (2)
On June 20th, a group meeting at the CND Offices organised a
Mad Hatters’ Tea-Party on June 20th as part of the Burghfield Month of Direct
Action organised by Trident Ploughshares.
21 people took part in the Party and it was so enjoyable and
such a success that we decided to hold another Mad Hatters’ Tea Party in
support of CND’s anti-Trident lobby on July 13th (noon-6 p.m.)
The party will be held in Parliament Square, on the side
facing the House of Commons.
It will be held from 2 to 4 p.m. and have a table and chairs,
with members of the group dressed in costumes representing the characters in
Alice in Wonderland , naturally having tea, with a child’s tea-set, a large teapot, balloons,
music and dancing and more seriously holding up banners such as “Mad to Spend
£205 billion on Trident” and “We’re Mad Hatters; they’re Mad Bombers”.
Everybody is invited, especially children and those taking
part in the lobby. If you’d like to
dress up as an Alice in Wonderland character or bring suitable items to the
party that would be appreciated, but not obligatory. Either come for 2 hours or look in on us
before or after you attend the lobby – there is now a lighted crossing from the
Parliament side across to the side of the centre of the Square where we will
be. If you want to leaflet passers-by on
the Parliament side we will have Stop Trident lobby cards to give you.
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Saturday 6th August London CND Hiroshima Day Commemoration
12 noon Tavistock Square Gardens, London
Join
London CND to remember the victims of atomic bombing and wars everywhere. Joint comperes Kate Hudson (CND) and Tim Wallis (Quaker Peace and Disarmament) will preside over a ceremony which includes faith speakers, celebrities, performers, entertainers. Bring a picnic for a joint lunch afterwards!
For more information, contact London Region CND (david.lrcnd@cnduk.org / 020 7607 2302)
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[Reminder]
History and the Housing Crisis
A discussion event
Tuesday 14 June 2016, 6.30-8.30pm, London EC1
In this event we will ask what the historical roots to the current housing crisis are, what historical solutions have been posed, and how we might tell the history of housing politics...
The panel members will each approach the topic from a different vantage point based on their experiences and will speak for 15-20 minutes each. After which, the discussion will be opened up for the next hour or so to include the floor.
Date: Tuesday 14 June 2016
Time: 6.30pm-8.30pm
Venue: Marx Memorial Library, 37a Clerkenwell Green, London, EC1R 0DU
This event is supported by the Raphael Samuel History Centre.
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Walter Rodney -
Socialist (Activist) Historian
Socialist History
Society Public Meeting
Walter Rodney, the prominent
Guyanese historian, political activist and scholar, was assassinated in Guyana
on 13th June 1980. At long last, the report of the Commission of Inquiry into
his murder has been handed to the Parliament of Guyana. It is therefore a good
time to revisit the legacy of the author of A History of the Guyanese
Working People and How Europe Underdeveloped Africa.
Rodney was also founder of the Working People's Alliance, a
political movement in Guyana dedicated to social transformation and unity of
the Indian and African workers. He made a great contribution to
revolutionary thought by establishing new thinking on questions of fighting
racism and racial domination, the humanisation of the planet and the self
emancipation of working peoples. He was murdered for uniting this political
theory with practical, militant activity.
Speakers: Cecil Gutzmore & Leland
De Cambra
WHEN
WHERE
MARX MEMORIAL
LIBRARY - 37a Clerkenwell Green nearest tube Farringdon, EC1R 0DU - View Map
To book a ticket see the eventbrite page here
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Independent Working Class Education Network
Day School on 4th June
Getting the Record Straight and Winning
Again
Saturday 4th June 10.00 - 2.30
London UnitetheUnion Offices
128 Theobalds Rd., (Holborn Tube)
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Another IWCE Day School
Mineworkers Around the World; taking on the giants - and winning
Friday 8th July. 11.00 - 4.00 Durham Miners' Hall, Redhills.
This Independent Working Class Education Day School will give us all an insight into the way the Global Multinationals operate, and what we can do to stop their nonsense.
Elizabeth Cotton will lead the discussion; she co-authored the book "Global Unions Global Business" which is described as “the essential guide to international trade unionism" There will be other speakers.
(The Durham Miners Gala/Big Meeting is the next day.)
£5.00 includes lunch, pay on the day.
(UPDATE:) Are you looking forward to this year's Big Meeting? - thousands of us
will march through Durham on Saturday 9th July.
THE DAY BEFORE, join IWCE at the NUM's Redhill Centre for a special session
on "Mineworkers the world over and the power of education."
Friday 8th July, 11.00 - 4.00. Redhill, Durham.
We'll start at 11.00, with lunch provided, and feature Elizabeth Cotton,
who co-authored book "Global Unions Global Business" and Hilary Cave,
who was NUM Education Officer during the 1984/85 Miners' Strike, along with Colin Waugh and Keith Venables and lots of discussion.
We'll look at education and how it can help build the struggle.
£5.00 includes lunch, pay on the day.
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Wakefield Socialist History Group
SATURDAY 25 JUNE, 1pm at the Red Shed, Vicarage Street, Wakefield WF1
THE YORKSHIRE REBELLION OF 1820. All welcome.
"The Yorkshire Rebellion of 1820 was planned by working class radicals. It occurred just as those arrested during the Peterloo Massacre and at other reform demonstrations in 1819 were coming to trial.
The desire for universal suffrage, annual elections and an end to the Corn Laws were the main motivation."
Come along and hear Shaun Cohen from the Ford Maguire Society speak about this important event.
The chair will be Adrian Cruden from the Green Party.
The meeting -organised by Wakefield Socialist History Group- is on Saturday 25 June, 1pm at the Red Shed (Wakefield Labour Club), Vicarage Street, Wakefield WF1.
Admission is free, there is a free light buffet plus there is a bar with excellent real ale.
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On Saturday 16 July at 12 noon, the Wakefield Socialist History Group are holding a meeting at the Red Shed, Vicarage Street, Wakefield WF1 on "Tolpuddle..and the fight for trade union rights today." Admission is free; all welcome.
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June is to be a “month of direct action” against Trident at Burghfield near Reading, where Trident nuclear warheads are assembled.
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REMEMBERING
ERIC WALROND
Sun 5 June
The Harlem Renaissance, that great rebirth of African American
arts in the 20s, threw up such household names as Langston Hughes and Marcus
Garvey. But did you know one of the stars of this great cultural movement is
buried here in Stoke Newington, in Abney Park Cemetery?
The
life of Afro-Caribbean author Eric Walrond is an epic story in itself, full of
triumph, tragedy and mystery. How did this prodigious journalist, Guggenheim
fellow, and “the most promising literary talent of the Harlem Renaissance” just
disappear, along with his literary masterpiece?
11am-12pm Walrond's legacy, £5 Book here
James Davis, talks to Colin Grant (Negro With a Hat, Bageye at The Wheel),
Diane Abbott MP and Robin Travis (Prisoner to the Streets) about Walrond’s
life: his role in the Harlem Renaissance, his relationship with Marcus Garvey
and the factors that led to his until-now relative anonymity.
Abney Hall, 73A
Stoke Newington Church St
12.30-1pm Graveside readings, Free
Featuring Hackney MP Diane Abbott
Abney Park, meet at
Church St entrance
2-4pm Walrond's life and work revealed, Free
Talks by:
James Davis, author Eric Walrond A Life in the Harlem Renaissance and the
Transatlantic Caribbean
Dr Mike Niblett, assistant professor in Modern World Literature in the
Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick
Bill Schwarz, professor of postcolonial literature, Queen Mary University
of London
Abney Park
classroom, Stoke Newington High St entrance
5 JUNE TOUR MOVED TO 12 JUNE
Because of the Eric
Walrond events on 5 June, the regular monthly tour of Abney Park will be moved
to Sunday 12 June, 2pm. See here for more details.
www.abneypark.org
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Ciaran Walsh reading ‘Red Dagger’
Saturday 4th June, 4pm
Free Entry, downstairs in the Vaults
*Please note this event is being held downstairs in our Vaults, and is only accessible via a staircase.
BOOK EVENT
‘Killing Trayvons: An Anthology of American Violence’ with Thandisizwe Chimurenga Wednesday 8th June, 7pmEntry £3, redeemable against any purchase
BOOK EVENT ‘Refugees on Lesbos: one volunteer's story"
with Bev Jackson
Wednesday 15th June, 7pm
Entry £3, redeemable against any purchase
BOOK EVENT ‘Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics’
with Richard Seymour
Saturday 18th June, 6.30pm
Entry £3, redeemable against any purchase
BOOK LAUNCH
LEFT BOOK CLUB PRESENTS:‘Cut Out: Living without Welfare’ and ‘Island Story’
with Jeremy Seabrook and J.D. TaylorWednesday 22nd June, 7pm
Entry £3, redeemable against any purchase
SATURDAYS IN THE VAULTS
POETRY EVENT AND BOOK LAUNCH
‘Looking for Trouble’
by Roque Dalton, and presented by John Green and Michal Boncza
Saturday 25th June, 4pm
Free Entry, downstairs in the Vaults
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Radical Histories/Histories of Radicalism conference and festival, July 1-3
- See separate post.
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Rural Radicalism Conference,
Saturday 4th June 2016 at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge
Helmore 251 (first floor of the Helmore Building on East Road, Cambridge)
10:00am – 4.45pm
Organised by the Labour History Research Unit at Anglia Ruskin University and the Victorian Studies Centre, at Saffron Walden Town Library
Programme on LSHG blog
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London Socialist Historians:
Monday 6 June - LSHG seminar
Keith Flett on 'The European Referendum in 1975 and the Left'
Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Malet St London WC1E 7HU (Room 304 - 5.30pm)
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Marxism 2016 - Ideas for revolution runs from 30 June to 4 July in central London - it is roughly the same sort of time as the
Radical Histories conference, but nonetheless includes highlights for radical and socialist historians as per link - from
LSHG blog
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Medact and Queen Mary University London (QMUL) are holding an event:
'Tracking Health Through Peace' on July 4.
Panel discussion and Q&A
at the Morris Lecture Theatre in the Robin Brooke Centre,
6-8 p.m.
"The discussion will be based around the latest report from the Global Peace Index, which is the world’s pre-eminent think tank measuring peace. There is a growing global inequality in peace, and low peace levels have a profound impact on health systems and health indicators.
Academics and campaigners working on peace and health will be tying in this latest research on peace levels with national health indicators. They will also discuss the development and importance of the movement for peace in the health community."
An event poster is also available:
here
======================= And looking ahead...
Barnsley Festival of Labour History -
Friday 14th-Sunday 16th October 2016
The Civic, Hanson Street, Barnsley, S70 2HZ
Talks, discussion, music film - weekend ticket £10
Organised by Barnsley Trades Council to celebrate the 125th anniversary of our
founding
Sponsored by the Society for the Study of Labour History
Highlights include
Friday 14 October - opening with gig by David Rovics (£5 entry) at The Old No.
7 Market Hill Barnsley
Saturday 15 October - Sunday 16 October
Speakers include Malcolm Chase, Dave Burland, Jill Liddington, Keith Laybourn,
Louise Raw, John Newsinger, Donny Gluckstein, John Field, Anandi Ramamurthy,
Ralph Darlington
On Saturday night there will be a screening of Ken Loach's film The
Price of Coal.
Tickets / more info from Barnsley Trades Council c/o 33 Western Street,
Barnsley, S70 2BT
Cheques payable to Barnsley Trades Council. Tel 07594857960 for more
info.
