Rebel Councillors - the history (and future?) of councils refusing to implement austerity - UCL Left Forum
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17/11/2015 - 19:00
UCL Roberts Building, Room G08, Torrington Place, London WC1E 7JE
History
Quote as Haiku: Rosa
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"Freedom is always
The freedom of dissenters"
Rosa Luxemburg
Mostly Hating Tories: an extra verse for the Tolpuddle Festival
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They've thresholds, scabs, and if you're rude
On pickets, then they'll jail you
Perhaps their Bill may still include
Transportation to Australia
This isn't fairness as they say
Look, we know what class war is
If Tolpuddle's Martyrs were here today
They'd be mostly hating Tories
Minnie Lansbury - illustrated talk at the East London History Society
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19/02/2015 - 19:30
Janine will be giving an illustrated talk about Minnie Lansbury - East End Suffragette, socialist, school teacher, champion of the victims of war, rebel councillor and my hero! as the guest speaker at the monthly meeting of the East London History Society.
Local Trade Unionists Slam East London Line Privatisation Plan
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Press release from Hackney Trade Union Council, 6 January 2004
London Underground has revealed that when the East London Line is extended into Hackney, it will not be a Tube line, but a privatised, mainline service.
The First Two Labour Governments
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I drafted this several years ago, for a discussion at a Workers' Liberty branch meeting on the first and second Labour governments. I found it useful to tell the story, then ask people to discuss some questions: the 'timeline' and discussion questions are below.
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THE FIRST AND SECOND LABOUR GOVERNMENTS – TIMELINE
1918: Representation of the Peoples Act
Video: British Work for British Hands
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Pink Pound Will Not Bring Liberation
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The attached article was included in the Workers' Liberty pamphlet Pink Pound or Red Flag? Socialists and the Fight for Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual Liberation in 1995.
'Government'
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by Janine Booth (intro) / Eva Gore-Booth (poem) - published in Solidarity 334
Eva Gore-Booth (1870–1926) was an Irish poet and dramatist, and a suffragist and labour movement activist.
Talk at Jewish East End Celebration Society AGM: Minnie Lansbury
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21/09/2014 - 15:00
East London Central Synagogue, 30-40 Nelson Street, London, E1 2DE
After very brief formal AGM proceedings, there will be two talks, including my presentation on Minnie Lansbury - East End suffragette, socialist, school teacher, champion of the victims of war, rebel councillor and my hero!
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