Last night I bought a copy of the Daily Mail (for the first time in my life) as I am into surrealism in a big way. I just had to do it. There several headlines which took my fancy:
"BBC 'Witch' Song Insult to Maggie" (front page)
"....and now even a police sergeant tweets meassages of hate" (front page)
"I hope Thatcher's death was degrading and...
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Subject Index: Modern History (Post World War II)
Thatcher's Cold
Vasquez: All right, we got seven canisters of CN-20. I say we roll them in there and nerve gas the corpse just to make sure.
Hicks: That's worth a try, but we don't know if it's gonna affect her.
Ripley: I say we fire the corpse into low earth orbit and nuke it. It's the only way to be sure.
Hudson: Fuckin' A!
Burke: Hold on a second. Thatcher's...
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Running down Whitehall with a black flag
Running down Whitehall with a black flag. Memories of anarchism in the 1960s
Di Parkin was a revolutionary activist from the early 1960s to the 1980s. She was employed as a community worker and an Equal Opportunities Adviser. Her PhD was on opposition to the myth of National Unity in Second World War Britain and she published a book on the history...
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Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power
Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power: Race, Class and Gender in the 60s U.S.
This talk is based upon a series of books that have recently appeared covering the hidden history of the white working class radical community groups who formed the 'Rainbow Coalition' with the Black Panthers, Young Lords, Native American and...
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Three Minutes to Midnight: The Women’s Anti-Nuclear Protest at Greenham Common
Elaine Titcombe.
History PhD Student, The University of the West of England, Bristol.
In 1984 the doomsday clock reached three minutes to midnight. This was the closest recorded time to global destruction defined (at that time) as imminence to nuclear war, since 1953. This crisis arose as a result of an escalation of militarism between the East...
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Libres: Songs of the Spanish Revolution
Pilar Lopez’s performance about the Spanish Social Revolution of 1936 aims to draw inspiration from these amazing times, sharing the beauty and relevance of those events and making links with what's currently happening in Spain.
In 1936, after a partially unsuccessful military coup and by popular demand, the libertarian unions took control of...
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The Fight against Blacklisting
Di Parkin has been a left activist since the 1960s. She is a historian and published “60 years of struggle” history of Betteshanger, a militant Kent pit. She will be speaking about the actions on the Economic League in the 1970s, providing blacklisting information to employers and the impact on militants in places such as Cowley car works and...
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Kings Cross Tube Fire 25 years on: Health and Safety, Fight Club and neo-liberal logic
Today (18th Nov 2012) is the 25th anniversary of the fire at Kings Cross tube station which killed 31 people and injured over 100 (see http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20383221) . The fire was 'blamed' at the time on a lit match which fell below the escalator and began the deadly inferno. The fire and subsequent inquiry led to the banning of smoking...
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Boris Johnson Airbrushed From History
On October 16th 2004 The Spectator published an unsigned editorial by Boris Johnson (aparently with a little help from Simon Heffer) in which he stated that Liverpool fans were wallowing in self pity when they themselves were responsible for the Hillsborough disaster. This article has since gone missing from The Spectator online archive. In an...
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Why The Hillsborough Panel Has Not Reported The Truth
On April 15, 1989 I was sitting in the North Stand at Hillsborough with a perfect view of the Leppings Lane end. Along with 40,000-odd other people I witnessed what has now been described as the biggest cover up in modern British history. How can you cover up something which is witnessed by over 40,000 people?
As a 19-year-old, I returned to...
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