As always, Spirit of Revolt have been a bunch of busy beavers, in the coming month they have two events coming up. The first is their now popular and regular, Show and Tell, in conjunction with The Mitchell Library. This on is on conscientious objectors from WW1 and WW2. So far the interest has been exceptional, so if interested do come early. the details are:
The Mitchell Library, 5th. floor. in the Blythswood Room.
Monday 5th. November, 12:00-2:00pm. FREE EVENT.
It will take the form of an open discussion which will be opened by SoR member Eric Chester. On display will be some material on conscientious objectors, select from the SoR archive by Paula, our archivist. As the world still faces continuous wars and the threat of more flaring up in other parts of the world, the thoughts behind conscientious objectors is well worth bring to the forefront of our minds. This one is a must.
Though we at SoR believe we do a valuable job in creating a wonderful resource of the history of the ordinary people of Glasgow/Clydeside area, and making it easily accessible to the general pubic, we are an independent volunteer group with no affiliation to political parties nor trade unions. That means we need to raise that filthy stuff, money, for all manner of day to day cost of what we do.
So the other event is a fund raiser where our friends,
Thi Wurd will have a slot.The event is built round an event that took place during the miners strike, put together by a group, Artists in Solidarity and was called Writers for Miners. It was held in The Third Eye Centre, now the CCA, in Sauchiehall Street. a group of well know writers, musicians and poets came together to raise funds for the striking miners. The audio files of the event turned up and with the consent of those performers, we have produced a CD. The event will be the launch of this CD and some of those original performers will performing at this event, with an input from
Thi Wurd.
The CD, which has 21 tracks, comes with a booklet with a description of what Artists in Solidarity was all about, and other interesting information, written by James Kelman, who will also be at this event.
The details of this event are:
Mono, Kings Court, (off King Street, near Trongate.)
Wednesday, 28th November, from 6:00pm
This will I'm sure, be a wonderful night of great entertainment, an opportunity to hear some great and well known performers do what they do best. More info on this event will be issued from time to time as we approach nearer the time.
For more info on either of these events you can get in touch via our
Contact Page, or
info@spiritofrevolt.info
On top of these events, the group have managed to put up on their
"Read on line" facility an other interesting list of pamphlets/serials/booklets. You can read you way through this interesting and informative list of works from the links below.
T SOR-6-7-49 The Commune. Vol. II, no. 13. 1929.
T SOR-6-7-55 Poll Tax Handbook.1989.
T SOR-6-7-56 Trades Councils. Joe McDonald. 1930.
T SOR-6-7-57 The Rights of Labour according to John Ruskin.
T SOR-6-7-58 A Public Nuisance: Tales of adventure & a spirit of revolt, Glasgow Anarchists 1974 to 1986. Jim McFarlane.
T SOR-6-7-59 The Working Class Against Fascism. G. Dimitrov 1935.
T SOR-6-7-62 Two Pages from Roman History. Daniel De Leon. Socialist Labour Party
T SOR-6-7-66 As We Don’t See It. Solidarity London.
T SOR-6-7-67 Rent Strike! The Clydebank Rent Struggles of the 1920s. Sean Damer 1982.
T SOR-6-7-77 Feminism As Anarchism. Lynne Farrow. Black Bear Pamphlet No. 2.
T SOR-4-1-18 Echanges: Bulletin of the Network ‘Echanges et Mouvement’. Nos.48&52 1986/1996
Keep coming back, we add to the list regularly, so there will always be something new and interesting to browse.
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