Readers and Supporters events

Readers and Supporters Events November


Ayrshire
Thurs, 15 November
6.30 p.m. Harbour Arts Centre, Harbour Street, Irvine
Organising Meeting


Lanarkshire
Wed 14 November
7 p.m. Blantyre Miners Welfare, Calder Street, Blantyre
A Progressive Future for Scotland - a Red Paper view
Chair Stephen Smellie
Speaker Richard Leonard, Political Officer GMB


Glasgow
Saturday 10 November
Morning Star Winter Fair
Helpers needed 10-3 p.m. at Reidvale Neighbourhood Centre
Whitevale Street, Dennistoun

Fife
Wed, 14 November
7 p.m. Benarty Community Centre, Hill Road, Balingry, Lochgelly KY5 8NN
Chair Mary Lockhart
From Happy Land struggles to the fightback against today's Coalition government
Speakers Cllr Willie Clarke and Cllr Ken Selbie

Paisley
Tuesday, 4 December
7 p.m. Paisley Town Hall
Chair  Brenda Aitchison
Renfrewshires Housing Struggles: rents and benefits 1981-2012
Speakers: George Kerr and Dr Chik  Collins

People's Charter Urgent On-line Petition

The Scottish Morning Star Campaign Committee urges all supporters to sign up to the People's Charter e-petition
www.scottish.parliament.uk/GettingInvolved/Petitions/peoplescharter

"Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to bring forward measures in all areas it has competency to fulfil the aspirations of the People's Charter. "

Video: Left Poetry and Song as Cultural Front (Our Class Our Culture)

First meeting of Autumn 2012 OUR CLASS OUR CULTURE Season
Tuesday 4th September in the STUC building  

A superb evening of poetry and song bringing to mind the common struggle of ordinary people against poverty, injustice & all inhumanity ... a struggle for equality, a better world, for human dignity & socialism.

Artists:
David Betteridge
Leanne Coyle
Eddie Coyle
Etta Dunn
Alastair Findlay
George McEwan 
Ewan McVicar


PART 1

 

PART 2


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

James Connolly - Nation, Class & Religion

Professor John Foster, speaking as a foremost expert on the trade unionist, Irish Republican, communist & internationalist James Connolly.
Opening event of the 2012 Edinburgh Festival of Ireland. Sponsored by the Morning Star newspaper - daily paper of the Left
http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/


Further Discussion -
A lively and thought provoking discussion following Professor Foster's talk, in which many more facets and facts about James Connolly come forth.
Notable discussion on the subject of Connolly and Scottish independence.

Claiming Date Autumn 2012 Morning Star Conference Sunday 7 October at the STUC

Claiming Date Autumn 2012 Morning Star Conference
Sunday 7 October at the STUC
THE CHALLENGE FACING SCOTLAND:
PARLIAMENTARY POWER TO OWN AND DEVELOP ?

Our Class - Our Culture series
Tuesday, 4 September Glasgow at STUC 333 Woodside Road
David Betteridge and Alastair Findlay