Rebellious Daughters of History #48 by ,,Judy Cox Marie Curie’s socialist, scientist daughter Irène Joliot-Curie (1897 – 1956) Irène was the daughter of Marie Curie and Pierre Curie, born in Paris in 1897. Her father was killed in a carriage accident in 1906. Marie Curie was now a single mum. She joined “The Cooperative”, in […]
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Anne Ellis and the 1875 Weavers Union Strike; and the Women’s Bus Strike 1918
Rebellious Daughters of History #46 by ,,Judy Cox Anne Ellis and the Dewsbury weavers’ strike (1875) On 1 February 1875, weavers In West Yorkshire learned that mill owners planned to impose a wage cut of two to three shillings per week. Male and female weavers walked out of the Stubley and Taylor mills in Batley. […]
Aufstehen gegen Rassismus
Stand up Against Racism. Stop the AfD
Sir Keir Starmer’s Panorama Court Case Drama
(not featuring a llama)
German – Anti-German – Syn-German?
The Afterlife of the Pro-Israeli Left in Germany
Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) Berlin
Building the US Left post-Bernie2020
The Uprising of the 20,000 and Clara Lemlich
Rebellious Daughters of History #45 by ,,Judy Cox The Uprising of the 20,000 On November 23, 1909, more than twenty thousand Yiddish-speaking immigrants, mostly young women in their teens and early twenties, launched an eleven-week general strike in New York’s shirtwaist industry. Workers shared common grievances about wages, hours, workplace safety, and workplace indignities suffered […]
What is Cancel Culture? And Does it Matter?
Everyone’s talking about ‘cancel culture’, although there is no clear definition about what it actually is. This discussion is, to a large part, down to an article published in Harpers magazine and signed by various prominent writers ranging from Noam Chomsky via Francis Fukuyama to J.K. Rowling. [1] Although the article does not mention cancel […]
Hopscotch Reading Room
Alternative Reading in Berlin