What a weekend it was at Marxism 2018! Here is a snippet of a video that was shown before the talk on 1968 with Bernadette McAliskey, @eamonderry and Aaron Dixon, showing the fight for civil rights across the world. Unfortunately it was too long to include all of it!
Bernadette Devlin having to endure 'Tansplaining' way back in 1972 ...
Q: "... why is it a problem to have a lot of Irish in a particular country?"
A: "Well Mr Buckley, they don't seem to behave like the English somehow..."
My dad gave me “the talk” when I was 18, it lasted 5 minutes, half of which was him telling me how he got his dick broken. Ive never recovered from the trauma
A reminder that the Bloody Sunday inquiry found
- the killings were unjustified
- none of the 14 dead (7 of whom were children) had guns
- no warnings were given
- no soldiers were under threat
- the troops were the first to open fire
One prosecution is a disgrace.
The year is 2073, 70% of the UK has sank below sea level, the DUP has once again voted down Theresa May’s latest Brexit deal over concerns about the backstop