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journeymanblog: Strike !
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Socialism - history - martial arts - motorcycles . life and other stuff. Thursday, 13 November 2014. This is the third day of me being on strike. One day last week - and now two days this week. Not national strikes with a day-out in central London and a few pints in the afternoon - but a proper local dispute against the school management and the local authority, complete and some vicious national and local press coverage. And with all the fall-out and personalised bitterness that comes with it. Nothing t...
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journeymanblog: Je suis ... un ouvrier du monde
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Socialism - history - martial arts - motorcycles . life and other stuff. Sunday, 11 January 2015. Je suis . un ouvrier du monde. Or the paramilitary thugs of the CRS? Maybe we should all think a bit more carefully about some of this stuff:. I am hearing a lot of genuine confusion amongst the liberal-minded:. When does ridiculing religion turn into racism? Just because you have a right to do something does it mean that you should? Fair enough. These things can and must be discussed - but it's also wor...
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journeymanblog: One last throw of the dice?
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Socialism - history - martial arts - motorcycles . life and other stuff. Friday, 24 July 2015. One last throw of the dice? The Labour Party and I parted company back in 1991. In the meantime we've seen New Labour, Blair, the ditching of Clause 4, a couple of illegal wars, breaking the Trade Union link and countless other acts of betrayal that would get Nye Bevan spinning in his grave. Friday, July 24, 2015. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Life and other stuff. One last throw of the dice? Local electi...
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A Trumpet of Sedition: April 2015
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A Trumpet of Sedition. The consciousness of the past weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living'. - Karl Marx. Friday, 24 April 2015. Light Shining in Buckinghamshire by Caryl Churchill - Lyttelton Theatre. The Play Light Shining in Buckinghamshire by Caryl Churchill is currently playing to packed audiences at the Lyttelton Theatre in London. The play has been well received by a diverse audience. Having not been performed for a good while the play marked as one writer put it “a major UK rev...
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A Trumpet of Sedition: July 2015
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A Trumpet of Sedition. The consciousness of the past weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living'. - Karl Marx. Wednesday, 15 July 2015. God, Duty and Community in English Economic Life, 1660–1720, by Brodie Waddell. The Boydell Press. 2012; pp. 273. £60. Even after a cursory look at the work of Brodie Waddell it becomes clear that he holds an empathy with the oppressed and working people both past and present. He delivers his history with a passion that is all too absent. As Ann Talbot writes ...
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A Trumpet of Sedition: May 2015
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A Trumpet of Sedition. The consciousness of the past weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living'. - Karl Marx. Monday, 4 May 2015. Review: The Crimson Ribbon by Katherine Clements ISBN-10: 1472204220 11 Sep 2014. The Crimson Ribbon is a very well written and researched debut historical novel by Katherine Clements. The supreme test of a historical novel is how well the author blends fictional characters with real life figures and events. The Crimson Ribbons passes that test. The opening chapter of...
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A Trumpet of Sedition: June 2014
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A Trumpet of Sedition. The consciousness of the past weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living'. - Karl Marx. Sunday, 29 June 2014. At the R H Tawney Archive. A society which reverences the attainment of riches as the supreme felicity will naturally be disposed to regard the poor as damned in the next world, if only to justify itself for making their life a hell in this. R H Tawney. The archivists have been thorough and the documents are presented in easy to access boxes. Some of Tawney̵...
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A Trumpet of Sedition: August 2014
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A Trumpet of Sedition. The consciousness of the past weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living'. - Karl Marx. Wednesday, 20 August 2014. David M. Hart, Tracts on Liberty by the Levellers and their Critics Vol. 3 (1646). [2014]. As reported on this blog the online library of Liberty has started the process of publishing large swathes of Leveller writings in digital form. More will follow in 2016. A Trumpet of Sedition. Links to this post. Monday, 4 August 2014. It is clear that Thompson was a nat...
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A Trumpet of Sedition: December 2014
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A Trumpet of Sedition. The consciousness of the past weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living'. - Karl Marx. Saturday, 27 December 2014. The Levellers: Radical Political Thought in the English Revolution Rachel Foxley , Manchester University Press, 2013, ISBN: 9780719089367; 304pp. Price: £70.00. Certainly in my field of study a veritable historian’s war has existed for well over fifty years. While the battle lines maybe a little blurred at times when the smoke clears the debate has l...It is n...
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A Trumpet of Sedition: Light Shining in Buckinghamshire by Caryl Churchill - Lyttelton Theatre
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A Trumpet of Sedition. The consciousness of the past weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living'. - Karl Marx. Friday, 24 April 2015. Light Shining in Buckinghamshire by Caryl Churchill - Lyttelton Theatre. The Play Light Shining in Buckinghamshire by Caryl Churchill is currently playing to packed audiences at the Lyttelton Theatre in London. The play has been well received by a diverse audience. Having not been performed for a good while the play marked as one writer put it “a major UK rev...