Saturday 25 April, from 11am to 6pm
Trinity Centre,
Trinity Road Bristol BS2 0NW
It’s that time of year again….Bristol Radical
History Group’s Radical History Zone will be taking place again next month. As per previous year’s events this will take place
alongside the Bookfair.
The
programme of events is shaping up as follows:
Radical History Zone
Saturday 25 April 2015, from 11.30am to 6.30pm
Hydra
Books, 34 Old Market , Bristol BS2 0EZ.
12-1 Merilyn
Moos: Siegi Moos and the Anti-Nazi Movement in pre-War Germany.
Siegi Moos was an active anti-Nazi 1928-1933
in Berlin, a time which ended with the Nazis gaining power and Siegi going
underground, before escaping Germany altogether. Little publicity is given to
anti-Nazi movement in Germany, which Siegi’s activities shed light on. Although
many of the organisations which make up this movement were originally
established or supported by the German Communist Party (KPD), they were in
practice semi-autonomous. Indeed, the Red Front, a crucial - and from
1929, illegal - organisation of which Siegi was an active member, and
which was key in protecting working class communities against both the growing
strength of the SA and the police, was far more alert to the Nazi threat than ,
Merliyn suggests, the Central Committee of the KPD. Merilyn attributes
Siegi’s greater awareness to his growing up in Bavaria and witnessing first the
rise and fall of the Soviet Republic in 1918/19 and then the rise and rise of
the ultra-right .’
1-2 "Mac" McConnell: Housing
Activism and Squatting in 1970’s Bristol. Includes a screening of
18-minute documentary The Law Breakers (1973).
Mac will begin by giving a brief personal/political
history of what motivated him to get involved. He will be covering the
squatting campaign that took place between 1972-1974 in Ashley Road Bristol,
and direct action taken like the occupation of The South West Electricity Board
showrooms (SWEB,) for example.
The BBC West documentary will feature
previously homeless single parent families, a support meeting by 'Bristol
Squatter's Association,' and an interview with the then council housing chief
Bill Graves.
All Out! Dancing in Dulais! tells the story
of London Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners, a group which twinned with a
mining community in South Wales. The inspiration for the recent film Pride,
it is one of many examples of grassroots film-making during the 1984-5 British
miners' strike. After watching the documentary, we will discuss the broad range
of solidarity activism during one of the most significant strikes in British
labour history: trade unionists, feminists, black activists and others created
a diverse support movement alongside the industrial struggle. We will explore
the roots of this activism in longer histories of connections and cultures of
solidarity.
3-4 Roger Ball, Steve Hunt, Steve
Mills and Mike Richardson: Book and pamphlet launch: Strikers,
Hobblers, Conchies and Reds: A Radical History of Bristol 1880-1939 and
‘The Berkeley Poachers’. http://www.breviarystuff.org.uk/strikers-hobblers-conchies-reds/
Members of our very own Bristol Radical History
Group will share some choice snippets from their research as an appetiser to
promote two new publications, including the group’s first book-length
collaboration.
4-5 Anthony Iles and Tom Roberts: Talk
and discussion led by the authors of All Knees and Elbows of Susceptibility and Refusal: Reading History From
Below.
5-6.30 Tracing
Movements: Resistance Struggles against
Immigration Controls in Europe.
Tracing
Movements is a collection of films documenting struggles against immigration
controls in Europe. At RHZ, we will be screening two films:
Patra, Dead End relates the campaigns to stop the destruction of migrant camps in the
port-town of Patra, Greece. Today, migrants continue to live in limbo, with no
chance of gaining in Greece, and stopped from continuing their westward
journey.
Across the
Adriatic in the fields of southern Italy, seasonal migrant workers live
segregated from Italian society. The Invisible Workforce explores
the obstacles migrant workers face attempting to organise together.
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