georgestapleton
8th November 2010, 15:15
Following our successful series of talks on political organisation over the summer, where we looked at series of communist political organisations (Komunist Kranti in India, Potere Operario in Italy and finally at Big Flame in England), the commune is hosted a series of discussion forums on revolutionary syndicalism.
The third meeting of that series is:
Monday, December 13, 7pm: "Syndicalism without Syndicalists": The British Experience of the 1970s - With a lead off by Sheila Cohen
Eric Hobsbawm once referred to the period of working class militancy during the 1970s as "Syndicalism without Syndicalists". This period saw the miners strike of 1974 bring down the Heath government and perhaps reached its apogee in the Winter of Discontent of 1978-1979. Sheila Cohen, a union activist in the 70s, author of the book Ramparts of Resistance: Why Workers Lost Their Power, and How to Get It Back and currently on the editorial board of the magazine Solidarity, will speak on this period.
All meetings will be held in The Artillery Arms, 102 Bunhill Row, London, EC1Y 8ND
The third meeting of that series is:
Monday, December 13, 7pm: "Syndicalism without Syndicalists": The British Experience of the 1970s - With a lead off by Sheila Cohen
Eric Hobsbawm once referred to the period of working class militancy during the 1970s as "Syndicalism without Syndicalists". This period saw the miners strike of 1974 bring down the Heath government and perhaps reached its apogee in the Winter of Discontent of 1978-1979. Sheila Cohen, a union activist in the 70s, author of the book Ramparts of Resistance: Why Workers Lost Their Power, and How to Get It Back and currently on the editorial board of the magazine Solidarity, will speak on this period.
All meetings will be held in The Artillery Arms, 102 Bunhill Row, London, EC1Y 8ND