RADICAL HISTORY NETWORK (RaHN)

A CELEBRATION, AND A LOOK BACK AT SOME ACTIVITIES, GROUPS AND CAMPAIGNS OVER THE DECADES FOOTAGE FROM EVENT ON SATURDAY 30TH MARCH 2024 @ LORDSHIP HUB N17 6NU Films, Desert Island Discs, photo-d...

https://radicalhistorynetwork.blogspot.com/2024/04/dave-morris-tottenham-community.html

Dave Morris was invited by the Co-Directors of Greenpeace UK to do a talk/discussion on 30th March 2023 at their HQ. It was attended by 30 Greenpeace office staff and at least another 25 online.�...

https://radicalhistorynetwork.blogspot.com/2023/05/london-greenpeace-mclibel-poll-tax-and.html

A post on this blog in January looked at where Alan Woodward's publications about past and present struggles could be found online. Two more are now available: POOR BOY'S TALE: Alan's aut...

https://radicalhistorynetwork.blogspot.com/2023/04/alan-woodward-autobiography-now-online.html

Alan was one of the original organisers of the Radical History Network of NE London and as the RaHN Convenor he organised and wrote up summaries of dozens of local talks and meetings on a wh...

https://radicalhistorynetwork.blogspot.com/2023/01/alan-woodwards-publications-online.html

 NEWS FROM NOWHERE CLUB  Patron: Peter Hennessy Founded in 1996, the club challenges the commercialisation and isolation of modern life and meets monthly on Saturdays.  ‘Fellowship is he...

https://radicalhistorynetwork.blogspot.com/2021/12/news-from-nowhere-club-2022-programme.html

Guardian obituary by Penny Warren: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/jul/25/dinah-murray-obituary      Dinah's own website:  https://productiveirritant.org/ In it she describe...

https://radicalhistorynetwork.blogspot.com/2021/07/dinah-murray-north-london-activist.html

 A previous post on this blog profiled several radical history podcasts which may be of interest.  To these we can now add the excellent #SPYCOPSPOD, with weekly instalments that have mai...

https://radicalhistorynetwork.blogspot.com/2021/06/new-spycops-podcast.html

  Institute of Contemporary Arts: 6 July – 26 September 2021   Photograph: Robert Croma   > While War Inna Babylon was originally scheduled to open in May > 2020 –...

https://radicalhistorynetwork.blogspot.com/2021/06/exhibition-war-inna-babylon-communitys.html

  Haringey Solidarity Group www.haringey.org.uk   Tuesday May 11th, 7.30-9.30pm - online A review and celebration of 30 years of radical ideas and campaigning in Haringey and beyond Introd...

https://radicalhistorynetwork.blogspot.com/2021/04/tuesday-11th-may-730pm-celebration-of.html

  Join us to celebrate the launch of We Have Always Been Here   Please join us online on Friday, 26 February at 18:00 to celebrate the launch of We Have Always Been Here, an exhibit...

https://radicalhistorynetwork.blogspot.com/2021/02/we-have-always-been-here-exhibition-of.html

Email received recently which may be of interest: MARCH 20-21, 2021: A TWO-DAY ONLINE CONFERENCE TO COMMEMORATE THE KRONSTADT COMMUNE OF MARCH 1921. We invite you to “Kronstadt as Revolutio...

https://radicalhistorynetwork.blogspot.com/2021/02/kronstadt-uprising-100-years-on.html

The proliferation of podcasts in recent years is an interesting trend that probably tells us something about the eagerness of radicals (and egotistical self-promoters) to grasp the opportunities ...

https://radicalhistorynetwork.blogspot.com/2021/02/radical-history-podcasts.html

A previous post on this blog celebrated Ken Weller's 80th birthday and the influence he had on us. So we were greatly saddened to hear of his death recently, but also amused by this absurd press...

https://radicalhistorynetwork.blogspot.com/2021/02/ken-weller-1935-2021.html

  This month is the 50th anniversary of the Great Post Office Strike of 1971. It is said that it was the longest mass strike (200,000 workers, for 44 days) since the 1926 General Strike. Althou...

https://radicalhistorynetwork.blogspot.com/2021/02/the-great-post-office-strike-of-1971.html

Liz Willis (born Elizabeth Ann Smith) has died in hospital in London with family around her, age 72, following diagnosis of pancreatic cancer last year. Liz was born in Stornoway, daughter ...

https://radicalhistorynetwork.blogspot.com/2019/11/liz-willis.html

LSHG seminar - David Edgerton 'Some reflections on the rise and fall of the British Nation' SOCIALIST HISTORY SEMINAR AUTUMN 2019 Monday October 28th 5.00pm  David Edgerton, 'Some Reflec...

https://radicalhistorynetwork.blogspot.com/2019/10/selection-of-onward-events.html

Further to previous posts on the origins of Solidarity (for Workers' Power) and Socialisme ou Barbarie , we post here extracts from a recent email giving details of where to find a vast amount of...

https://radicalhistorynetwork.blogspot.com/2019/10/bibliography-cornelius-castoriadis.html

The freedomtoprotest.org.uk  site is due to close imminently.... In 2005 the McLibel case defendants, after the longest trial in English history (vs the McDonald's Corporation), celebrated ...

https://radicalhistorynetwork.blogspot.com/2019/09/freedom-to-protest-2005-conference.html

SATURDAY 12TH OCTOBER 2019 BRISTOL RADICAL HISTORY GROUP (BRHG ) and the REMEMBERING THE REAL WORLD WAR I GROUP (RRWWI) have organised a full programme of events, in collaboration with our h...

https://radicalhistorynetwork.blogspot.com/2019/09/bristol-radical-history-festival-2019.html

> NEW ANARCHIST RESEARCH GROUP, LONDON  >  >  Meetings in September and October to be held in the MayDay Rooms,  > 88 Fleet Street, London EC4Y 1DH  > Saturday 28 S...

https://radicalhistorynetwork.blogspot.com/2019/09/new-anarchist-research-group-london.html

(see also previous listing ) From CND DAY OF ACTION AT THE EXCEL, LONDON • 4 SEPTEMBER 2019 Nuclear weapons manufacturers are visiting London in September.   They will exhibit at one of...

https://radicalhistorynetwork.blogspot.com/2019/08/notices-and-alerts-for-september-and.html

FROM TRANSLATION OF AN ARTICLE BY MPT ACHARYA IN L'EN DEHORS, 15-8-1932 LETTER FROM GERMANY  WRITTEN BEFORE THE RESULT OF THE ELECTIONS Comrade Styr-Nhair asks what readers of l'en deho...

https://radicalhistorynetwork.blogspot.com/2019/08/letter-from-germany-august-1932.html

Pursuing his consideration of questions of the personal as political in relation to anarchism (see previous post ) MPT Acharya took issue not only with traditional morality but with some manifes...

https://radicalhistorynetwork.blogspot.com/2019/08/sexual-revolution-and-loving.html

FREEING FEELINGS IN RUSSIA FROM TRANSLATION OF AN ARTICLE BY M P T ACHARYA IN L'EN DEHORS, JULY 1932 > Pursuing an argument in the pages of the French anarchist > paper l'en de...

https://radicalhistorynetwork.blogspot.com/2019/07/freeing-feelings-or-liberating-libido.html

See also previous listings post NEWS FROM NOWHERE CLUB SATURDAY 13TH JULY 2019   Vi Gostling Memorial Lecture                    WHY PRIVATE FINANCING OF PUBLIC INFRA...

https://radicalhistorynetwork.blogspot.com/2019/07/some-summer-and-subsequent-events.html