[FONT=Trebuchet MS, Trebuchet][FONT=Trebuchet MS, Trebuchet]First meeting of Autumn 2012 of the Morning Star OUR CLASS OUR CULTURE Season Tuesday 4th September in the Scottish Trade Union Centre (STUC) building, Glasgow. A superb evening of poetry and song bringing to mind the common struggle of ordinary people against poverty, injustice & all inhumanity ... a struggle for human dignity & socialism. Video at http://scottishmorningstarcampaign.b...-cultural.html [Scottish Morning Star blog] Poems and songs in the first set of the programme: - WILLIAM BLAKE Holy Thursday & London read by David Betteridge THOMAS BURNSIDE A Voice from the Workshop read by Etta Dunn MARY BROOKSBANK The Jute Mill Song sung by Leanne & Eddie Coyle & The Shipbuilders read by Leanne GEORGE McEWAN Ballad for Upper Clyde read by GeorgeMcEwan & The Price of Coal read by GeorgeMcEwan NANCY NICHOLSON Who Pays the Piper sung by Leanne & Eddie Coyle PAULINE PRIOR-PITT Criminals read by Etta Dunn MARY BROOKSBANK To the Reactionaries read by Leanne Coyle BERTOLT BRECHT A Worker Reads History read by Etta Dunn MARY BROOKSBANK Labour Omnia Vincit read by George McEwan EWAN MacCOLL & PEGGY SEEGER Legal, Illegal sung by Leanne & Eddie Coyle Poems and songs in the second set of the programme: - William McGonagall - The Tay Bridge Disaster (1879) - poem G.W.Hunt - 'By Jingo' (1877) & Henry Pettitt 'I Don't Want to Fight' (1878) -music-hall songs Patrick MacGill - Played Out (1916) - poem Bob Stewart - An Anti-Militarist Version of 'A Man's A Man' (1917) - song John S Clarke - If? (1919) - poem parodying Kipling Joe Hill - Casey Jones (early 20th C) - Wobbly song Hugh MacDiarmid - Crowdieknowe (1925) - poem Traditional - Jarama Valley (Spain, 1930s) - song Sorley MacLean - Heroes (1940s) - poem Matt McGinn - Boomerang (1950s) - song Thurso Berwick (Maurice Blytheman) - The Eskimo Republic (1960s) - song David Betteridge - Fighting Back (2008) - poem Ewan McVicar - Ga's Song (1980s) - song Hamish Henderson - Freedom Come All Ye (1960s) - song/art poem[/FONT][/FONT]
