STEVE THOMPSON commends the grassroots movements seeking alternatives to economic growth The current edition of New Internationalist (NI434. July/August 2010) tackles what I consider to be one of the most crucial problems we face today, perhaps the most crucial. Headlined ‘Life beyond growth’, it deals with the conundrum that economic growth is not environmentally...
Jennie Cuthbert
On 27th August the ILP’s oldest member, Jennie Cuthbert, celebrates her 90th birthday. Jennie joined the ILP in 1942. She was taken to an ILP Summer School in Bangor by her aunt, Anne Hambley. Anne had been a member for many years and the visit to Bangor was a reward for Jennie gaining a...
Three months in Spain
Three months in Spain The British Battalion at Madrigueras and Jarama Saturday 7 August, 2pm People’s History Museum Left Bank Spinningfields Manchester M3 3ER FREE ENTRY Historian Dr. Richard Baxell lectures on the day-to-day experiences of the British and Irish volunteers in The Spanish Civil War, during the early part of 1937. The lecture...