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Tag: Social Democratic Federation

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The Red Flag and the White Cockade

Who wrote The Red Flag – and are you singing it all wrong? This brief history of a labour movement classic has some answers. Jim Connell was travelling the short distance home with friends by train from Charing Cross to New Cross after a meeting one evening shortly after the London Dock Strike of 1889 when he wrote the first two stanzas and chorus of … Continue reading The Red Flag and the White Cockade

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Great online events at the WCML for autumn 2021

he Working Class Movement Library offers an impressive and extensive series of talks, all of which are live-streamed and subsequently made available on its YouTube channel. Its autumn 2021 series of ‘Invisible Histories’ ranges from Thomas Spence to Jayaben Desai, and from the Social Democratic Federation to Militant Continue reading Great online events at the WCML for autumn 2021

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