Speech given on September 14 2017 in Bristol. REFORM OR REVOLUTION: The British Labour Movement and the Lessons of History: A Pattern Of British History? Over the course of the last three centuries, a clearly […]
Karl Marx wrote to his wife Jenny in 1856: “My love of you, as soon as you are distant, appears as a giant … the love, not of Feuerbach’s human being … not of the proletariat, but […]
Handsworth Stories Heathfield Road betrays its original status in its name, just as Birchfield Road does, since the former describes the landscape as it was when the latter-named road was merely the only track from […]
Tomorrow May Not Be the Same: Alienation Mike Quille (MQ) interviews Graham Stevenson (GS) for Communist Review in 2014. MQ: In the first article[1] in this series, Chris Guiton focused on a specific area of life, […]
This feature on migrant labour and the TGWU in the 1960s and 1970s is a work in progress, with ongoing research into relations in West Midlands foundries in the 1960s, the ban on bus workers […]
MIDLANDS CANAL BARGE MASTERS, CREWS, AND FAMILIES & THE TRANSPORT & GENERAL WORKERS UNION (1920-70) The biggest dispute ever organised by a trade union, which only concerned canal boat workers was the strike of Transport […]
Maurice Ludmer Ludmer was born in Manchester in 1926 to a Jewish family, his father being a Salford hairdresser and his mother a teacher of Hebrew. The family moved to Balsall Heath, Birmingham in 1939, when […]
Berit McFadden, who originally came from Schorndorf in southern Germany (pictured), died on 18 April 1997, aged 41, from a rare form of lung cancer. This was 6 weeks after diagnosis and 11 weeks after […]
Fred Gleason Fred Gleason was born in Liverpool and lived in the city his whole life, among other things, working as a painter and decorator for the city council. He proudly represented his co-workers as a […]
Fred Llewelyn Llewellyn joined the Communist Party in 1927 and was first elected as a Communist county councillor to represent the Nantymoel area, near Bridgend, on Glamorgan County Council in April 1932. Although receiving 732 […]
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