Rotheram Demo – A Pictorial Record
By Max Musson: There follows a sequence of photographs taken by one of our activists at Rotherham last Saturday, 13th September, and the photographs illustrate some interesting aspects of the demonstration that day and the police response to it. While South Yorkshire Police had cancelled all leave and had drafted in a large number of Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs), police motorcyclists, mounted police and Riot police from as far away as Devon and Wales, there were strange anomalies in…
A Tale of Two Activists
By Max Musson: Bert’s Tale Bert walks down the bare concrete steps from the foreman’s office with a heavy heart and he thanks his old mate Geoff for his support. The two men have worked together at Ferndale Metal Fabrications for almost thirty years now and although Geoff has always been a socialist, his brand of socialism is of the ‘Old Labour’, patriotic socialist variety and of all the shop stewards at Ferndale’s he has been…
Richard Wagner: Genius, Visionary, White Cultural Hero
This year marks the bicentenary of the birth of one of the greatest composers and poets in the history of Caucasian man: Richard Wagner. I do not throw the words ‘genius’ around like confetti, like many people do these days, but I would certainly use that epithet to describe this man. His genius is such that, in spite of being constantly castigated and deconstructed, his music has survived and been enjoyed by millions around the…