Archive for July, 2010
Report from the 1234 Festival, Sat 24th July 2010 in Shoreditch Park, also published in Weekly Worker. From Greenpeace to Amnesty International, from the Metropolitan Police to Lucky Strike and the Socialist Workers Party, everybody was testing their credentials with those trendy young things at the July 24 1234 music festival in Shoreditch Park. “You […]
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Tags: 1234 festival, communism, communist party of great britain, cpgb, socialism, socialist workers party, subway sect, swp, weekly worker
Nick Cave novel adapted for TV
Do you remember when Nick Cave was a needle thin punk on a death trip? Probably not – his time as a self-destructive living nightmare in The Birthday Party goes as far back as the early 80s.
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Tags: death rock, goth, new wave, nick cave, nick cave and the bad seeds, post punk, Punk, the birthday party, tv series
A report from the SWP’s ‘Marxism 2010′ Festival by Claire and Zuri – published in Weekly Worker. Claire: I’m writing as a member of the SWP. Attending Marxism has always been enjoyable for me – the opportunity to listen to debates within a left forum can be inspiring and help foster the belief that we […]
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Tags: communist party of great britain, macho insecurity, marxism, marxism 2010, socialism, socialist workers party, stalinism, swp, unite against fascism
