The Socialist History Society presents a talk in its series on the history of popular protest this Thursday:
At 7pm, Thursday, 17th May
'Rethinking Captain Swing: Rural Social Relations in 1830 and the Politics of the Parish'
Talk by Dr Carl Griffin, (Queen’s Belfast and author of The Rural War: Captain Swing and the Politics of Protest (CUP, 2012))
Venue: Bishopsgate Institute, Liverpool St
This meeting is free; all welcome.
Tuesday, 15 May 2012
Friday, 11 May 2012
Women's Library under threat
Save the Women's Library at London Metropolitan University - sign this petition and find out more about the campaign here
BFI Film Showing: The Spook Who Sat by the Door
African Oddysseys - The Spook Who Sat by the Door
The once effectively banned cult action film in which CIA operative Dan Freeman returns to Chicago and prepares his brothers for revolution. This fanciful conceit is both a biting satire and a razor-edged provocation in response to the urgency of its times, and features a highly charged score from Herbie Hancock. This 'not to be missed' rarity screens with a new documentary putting into context an extraordinary piece of film history: Infiltrating Hollywood – The Rise and Fall of The Spook Who Sat by the Door (USA 2011, dir Christine Acham & Clifford Ward, 57min). 26 May 2pm BFI Southbank
The once effectively banned cult action film in which CIA operative Dan Freeman returns to Chicago and prepares his brothers for revolution. This fanciful conceit is both a biting satire and a razor-edged provocation in response to the urgency of its times, and features a highly charged score from Herbie Hancock. This 'not to be missed' rarity screens with a new documentary putting into context an extraordinary piece of film history: Infiltrating Hollywood – The Rise and Fall of The Spook Who Sat by the Door (USA 2011, dir Christine Acham & Clifford Ward, 57min). 26 May 2pm BFI Southbank
Political Economy Day school and Marxist theory seminar
ISJ Conference: 'Crisis, Class and Resistance'
Saturday 12 May
A one-day conference on political economy hosted by International Socialism journal
School of African and Oriental Studies (Vernon Square Campus), Central London (Kings Cross/St Pancras tube) - with speakers including Robin Blackburn, Alex Callinicos, Guy Standing, Jane Hardy and Guglielmo Carchedi
LONDON SEMINAR ON CONTEMPORARY MARXIST THEORY
Peter Hallward (Kingston University) 'The Dictatorship of the People'
Wednesday 16th May, 5pm
King's College London, S-1.06, Raked Lecture Theatre
Saturday 12 May
A one-day conference on political economy hosted by International Socialism journal
School of African and Oriental Studies (Vernon Square Campus), Central London (Kings Cross/St Pancras tube) - with speakers including Robin Blackburn, Alex Callinicos, Guy Standing, Jane Hardy and Guglielmo Carchedi
LONDON SEMINAR ON CONTEMPORARY MARXIST THEORY
Peter Hallward (Kingston University) 'The Dictatorship of the People'
Wednesday 16th May, 5pm
King's College London, S-1.06, Raked Lecture Theatre
Thursday, 10 May 2012
SHS Meetings
The Socialist History Society presents
Saturday 12th May 2012 at 2.00pm
Freemasonry and Communism: The tortured relationship between the Communist Parties and Freemasonry
Speaker Ron Heisler
This talk is open to all and follows the AGM of the Society which is at 12.30pm.
Taking place at Bishopsgate Institute, 230 Bishopsgate, London EC2M 4QH, nearest tube: Liverpool St .
Free entry
Also:
After The Party: Reflections on life since the CPGB
Book Launch, 7pm (until 8.30pm), Wednesday 6th June
Co-hosted by publisher Lawrence & Wishart and the Socialist History Society
Twenty years after the demise of the Communist Party of Great Britain, eight former members, all of whom who stayed in the party until the bitter end, reflect here on some of the personal, political and cultural changes of the last twenty years. The paths of the book’s contributors have followed very different political trajectories since 1991 - taking them into the Green Party, the Labour Party, the CPB, SLP, Respect and no party at all. But most have remained politically active.
Combining personal and political history, analysis and autobiography, anecdote and argument, the contributors consider the consequences of the Party's dissolution for British political and intellectual life.
The event will be at Housman’s Bookshop, King’s Cross. Speakers will include: Andy Croft (Editor), Kate Hudson (General Secretary of CND), Lorna Reith (deputy leader of Haringey Council), Stuart Hill (Labour councillor in North Tyneside ) and Dave Cope (Left on the Shelf).
Book discount on the night.
For more information about the book, see www.lwbooks.co.uk/books/archive/AfterTheParty.html
Saturday 12th May 2012 at 2.00pm
Freemasonry and Communism: The tortured relationship between the Communist Parties and Freemasonry
Speaker Ron Heisler
This talk is open to all and follows the AGM of the Society which is at 12.30pm.
Taking place at Bishopsgate Institute, 230 Bishopsgate, London EC2M 4QH, nearest tube: Liverpool St .
Free entry
Also:
After The Party: Reflections on life since the CPGB
Book Launch, 7pm (until 8.30pm), Wednesday 6th June
Co-hosted by publisher Lawrence & Wishart and the Socialist History Society
Twenty years after the demise of the Communist Party of Great Britain, eight former members, all of whom who stayed in the party until the bitter end, reflect here on some of the personal, political and cultural changes of the last twenty years. The paths of the book’s contributors have followed very different political trajectories since 1991 - taking them into the Green Party, the Labour Party, the CPB, SLP, Respect and no party at all. But most have remained politically active.
Combining personal and political history, analysis and autobiography, anecdote and argument, the contributors consider the consequences of the Party's dissolution for British political and intellectual life.
The event will be at Housman’s Bookshop, King’s Cross. Speakers will include: Andy Croft (Editor), Kate Hudson (General Secretary of CND), Lorna Reith (deputy leader of Haringey Council), Stuart Hill (Labour councillor in North Tyneside ) and Dave Cope (Left on the Shelf).
Book discount on the night.
For more information about the book, see www.lwbooks.co.uk/books/archive/AfterTheParty.html
Tuesday, 8 May 2012
New Book: A Peoples History of London
From a review from the Independent here...
The LSHG will of course review this work in time in our Newsletter, and we are happy for the authors to respond to the Independent's review on this blog if they wish...
Edited to add: a link to an short extract from the book itself
Monday, 7 May 2012
1936: A Play about the Olympics
ATTIC Theatre Company presents 1936: A Play about the Olympics
Former Olympic Coach Tom McNab’s portrait of the 1936 Berlin Olympics
Lilian Baylis Studio at Sadler’s Wells 18th July – 05th August, 2012
PRESS PERFORMANCE: Friday 20 July 7.45pm
World-class athletics coach and award-winning writer Tom McNab depicts the lead-up to one of the most controversial sporting events in history. 1936 conjures up the conversations and conflicts leading up to the Berlin Olympics, as seen through the eyes of American journalist William Shirer. Juxtaposing scenes between Hitler and Goebbels with the discussions taking place in the International Olympic Committee and the American Amateur Athletics Union, the play reveals the political and cultural tensions surrounding the event and highlights the stories of the athletes involved, with Jesse Owens at the centre.
The Berlin Games were the first time that the Olympics were used as a powerful political tool for propaganda. In spite of Hitler’s treatment of the Jews and Jewish athletes, and lengthy debates amongst influential figures surrounding the Games, no boycott took place. Could the cancellation of the Games have changed world history? 1936 is a pertinent reminder of the political dimension of the Olympics, from the Civil Rights ‘Black Power’ salute of 1968, to the murders at Munich in 1972 and the human rights protests outside the Beijing Bird’s Nest, as the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games begin.
Every performance of the play is followed by short film excerpts from Leni Riefenstahl’s Olympia (1936) and a discussion chaired by Tom McNab with a panel drawn from cast members, historians and ex-Olympians such as Peter Radford and Geoff Capes.
Former Olympic Coach Tom McNab’s portrait of the 1936 Berlin Olympics
Lilian Baylis Studio at Sadler’s Wells 18th July – 05th August, 2012
PRESS PERFORMANCE: Friday 20 July 7.45pm
World-class athletics coach and award-winning writer Tom McNab depicts the lead-up to one of the most controversial sporting events in history. 1936 conjures up the conversations and conflicts leading up to the Berlin Olympics, as seen through the eyes of American journalist William Shirer. Juxtaposing scenes between Hitler and Goebbels with the discussions taking place in the International Olympic Committee and the American Amateur Athletics Union, the play reveals the political and cultural tensions surrounding the event and highlights the stories of the athletes involved, with Jesse Owens at the centre.
The Berlin Games were the first time that the Olympics were used as a powerful political tool for propaganda. In spite of Hitler’s treatment of the Jews and Jewish athletes, and lengthy debates amongst influential figures surrounding the Games, no boycott took place. Could the cancellation of the Games have changed world history? 1936 is a pertinent reminder of the political dimension of the Olympics, from the Civil Rights ‘Black Power’ salute of 1968, to the murders at Munich in 1972 and the human rights protests outside the Beijing Bird’s Nest, as the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games begin.
Every performance of the play is followed by short film excerpts from Leni Riefenstahl’s Olympia (1936) and a discussion chaired by Tom McNab with a panel drawn from cast members, historians and ex-Olympians such as Peter Radford and Geoff Capes.
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