The 1970s - Life Before Thatcher

Life Before Thatcher

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"Make Them Grovel": The 1976 West Indies Cricket TourThe West Indies Cricket Tour to England in 1976 came at a time of mounting attacks and provocations on black communities both by fascist groups such...-
From The Ford Workers' Group to 'Made In Dagenham'Ford plants in the 1970s were epicentres of worker militancy as recently depicted in the film Made In Dagenham. Carlos was a founder member of the...Carlos Guarita
Brian Ashton
The Asian Youth MovementIn the mid 1970s, a new generation of South Asian youth were growing up in Britain. They emerged less prepared to tolerate the racism in British...Anandi Ramamurthy
Grunwick: The End Of An Era?The two-year strike (1976–1978) over trade union recognition at the Grunwick Film Processing Laboratories in Willesden, North London is iconic in...Chris Thomas
Spies, Lies And The Coup: State Repression In The 70sThe rise of militancy in the workplace, universities and the new left in the early 1970s Britain generated a reaction by the ‘secret state’. A...Larry O’Hara
Cry Freedom ConcertA concert celebrating St. Wulfstan, Thomas Clarkson and the Seven Stars Pub.-
How We Won: Strikes In The 70sThe dominant idea of strikes in the 1970s is that of the 'winter of discontent' of 1979 in which workers took industrial action in support of pay...Dave Douglas
Mike Richardson
Steve Higginson
Glam-Punk Disco Inferno70s music with sets from DJ Pretty Boy and DJ Dabble.-
The Anti-Vietnam War MovementThe student rebellion in America in 1968 was fuelled by revulsion against the Vietnam War. It gave momentum to previously existing anti-nuclear and...Mike Levine
Roger Ball
Punk And The PistolsA showing of the influential Arena documentary (1995), which takes a different angle to the more widely known 'The Filth and the Fury'. From the...Paul Tickell
From Recruitment To Dialogue: How Does The Radical Left Relate To Workers?What lessons can we learn from how the Left related to workers and industrial struggles of the 1970s and how should the Left relate to workers today?...Sheila Cohen
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Italy In The 1970s: Bodies In The Street, A Tale Of A Country Like OursIn the 1970s, Italy came to the brink of revolution, the most widespread assault on state power Western Europe had seen since the Spanish revolution....Keiron Farrow
Marco
"Can't Do Nothin' If You Ain't Bad"': The League Of Revolutionary Black WorkersThe League of Revolutionary Black Workers was formed in 1969 in Detroit, Michigan. The organisation united a number of different Revolutionary Union...Keiron Farrow
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