Remembering Jeremy Hardy d 1st Feb 2019. The left needs activism but it also needs a sense of humour kmflett.wordpress.com/2024/02/01/rem…

Todmorden, west Yorkshire, by Steven Scholes (b.1952). #NorthernArt

Today EP Thompson would have turned 101. Reminder that you can find several films online from our 100th birthday celebration event in Halifax. First, highlights from the day: youtube.com/watch?v=sPKxwM…

#OTD 1947. Death of Ellen Wilkinson. One of Labour's prominent working class MPs, she rose to national attention during the Jarrow March in the 1930s before becoming Education Minister in 1945 Bevin leads the tributes: “She would never accept the inevitability of poverty”

A Date for your Diary - Thursday 3 April at 6.30 at WCML Eileen Turnbull will talk on the campaign to get the convictions of 24 striking building workers quashed.

#OTD 1900. Labour Party is founded. The Labour Representation Committee (LRC) is formed in London following a socialist conference. The 129 delegates pass Keir Hardie's motion to create “a distinct group to represent working class people in Parliament”.

Continuing the Irish theme, Fin Dwyer will discuss “Genocide or Famine? The Great Hunger of the 1840s”, one of most contested chapters in Irish history, at the 7th Bristol Radical History Festival (@MShedBristol, 26-27 Apr): tinyurl.com/5n88x3ch#BRHF2…

Workers take a break outside Protector Lamp company in Monton, Salford, 1966, photo by George Shepherd George Shepherd Photography Salford & Manchester.

"We raise the watch-word liberty; We will, we will, we will be free!" The Tolpuddle Martyrs, a group of Dorset rural labourers who were arrested for swearing a secret oath as members of a friendly society, were sentenced to penal transportation to Australia #OnThisDay 1834.

My biography of script writer Malcolm Hulke (Pathfinders in Space, The Avengers, Doctor Who, etc) has been reviewed in the Morning Star by John Green. morningstaronline.co.uk/article/dr-who…

22 years on Robin Cook's resignation speech in opposition to the Iraq War(18th March 2003) kmflett.wordpress.com/2023/10/24/20-…

#OnThisDay 1649: "The Commons of England, finding by too long experience, that the House of Lords is useless and dangerous to the People of England...have thought fit to Ordain and Enact...that the House of Lords, shall be and is hereby wholly abolished and taken away..."

my biography of Malcolm Hulke "Things are not always what they seem" is featured in my local newspaper tamesidecorrespondent.co.uk/2025/03/31/mos…

This wonderful classic text - which includes Hal Draper’s famous pamphlet ‘The Two Souls of Socialism’ - makes the case that genuine liberation can only come from below, from the self-activity of workers and ordinary people Haymarket Books WCML Socialist Historians North West Labour History

Superb meeting at the Working Class Movement Library last night with indomitable fighters Eileen Turnbull and Terry Renshaw on ‘A Very British Conspiracy: The Shrewsbury 24 and the Campaign for Justice’ - would highly really recommend Eileen’s book WCML North West Labour History

Along Liverpool docks, women workers cleaned and repaired the thousands of sacks and bags used in and around the docks. The work was hard, dirty and very low paid. In April 1924,1,600 women, led by Mary Bamber, went on strike. For more info at Snippet nwlh.org.uk/?q=node/317

Superb presentation by Taj Ali on ‘The Making of the British South Asian Working Class’ at for the 2025 )Eddie and Ruth) Frow Memorial Lecture at the WCML

Check out the halls, clubs, coffee taverns and houses across the country where branches of the Social Democratic Federation, Britain’s first Marxist organisation, used to meet 125 years ago in 1900 Tides of History

The Red Scar Mill strike of 1965 was one of the first led by Asian migrants—it is a struggle that should encourage us all ⁦North West Labour History⁩ ⁦MIRS⁩ ⁦Manchester Histories⁩ ⁦Strike Map⁩ socialistworker.co.uk/in-depth/the-a…