Niamh helping with research on cultural history of the picket line. We picked up a single by the 'The Flying Pickets', a group that emerged from the radical 7:84 theatre group, with a name influenced by the early 70 miners' strikes.

Great to see this article from our NCB1947 project out in Enterprise&Society - thank you Andrew Popp for your support.

Was pleased to be involved in this new BBC Sounds podcast available now. bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/p…

British workers have organised struggles in mines underground, on offshore rigs, at vast power station building sites and reactors.

I'm excited to give WCML's Frow Memorial Lecture on Energy Workers and the Transformation of Britain next week! eventbrite.co.uk/e/frow-memoria…

Extremely pleased with our latest print issue. I have a long read on how South Asian solidarity sustained the miners' strike featuring exclusive interviews with those who were on the frontline.

Really pleased to have contributed to this new Tribune issue on the 84-5 miners' strike. I've written about the support movement that helped sustain the dispute, and lessons for solidarity today.

Also particularly excited to read the David Peace interview!

The Indian Workers' Association was set up in Coventry in 1938 to fight for India's freedom & to champion the rights of workers.

IWA is working with University of Warwick to deliver a series of workshops, enabling students aged 18-25 to engage with this history.

Email: [email protected]

For the Guardian, I wrote about one of the defining questions of British life and politics: whether to stay in your hometown or leave it all behind
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Glasgow BURNOUT launch
CCA
Thurs 18 April, 6.15pm

with Helen Charman introducing readings from me plus various friends and comrades

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We congratulate the newly elected rector Ghassan Abu Sitta and are looking forward to working together on a range of issues that concern staff and students including opposing the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

really excited to be welcoming Ewan Gibbs to be giving this year's Frow Memorial Lecture!

Energy Workers and the Transformation of Britain

📅 Date: Wednesday 1st May
🕡 Time: 6:30 PM
📍 Venue: The Old Fire Station

eventbrite.co.uk/e/870973664677…

My book, 'The Politics of Intersectional Practice: Representation, Coalition and Solidarity in UK NGOs', will be published by Bristol University Press Bristol Uni Press in just 2 months!
Cover by Mary Martins bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-politics-o…

الجنسانية والتضامن: مثليات ومثليون دعماً لعمال المناجم
الكاتب: ديارمايد كيليهير Diarmaid Kelliher

الفصل السادس من كتاب صناعة ثقافة التضامن، لندن وإضراب عمال المناجم 1984- 1985، روتلدج، 2021
#minersstrike40
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Thanks to The Conversation for inviting me to contribute some words on The Tenementals debut track being archived in Germany. theconversation.com/peat-bog-soldi…

Pleased to see this exhibition that I worked on all of ten years ago in a new format

Delighted to share our full programme - what a group of amazing scholars and activists!

Some tickets still available:
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Looking forward to the Glasgow launch of Isaac Rose new book and discussion with Neil Gray, a vital analysis of capital’s hollowing out of our cities and the grassroots organising needed to reclaim them. Supported by Living Rent. Come along! Tickets:

eventbrite.com/e/glasgow-laun…

Thanks Christopher Patz https://bhre.social/@ChrisPatz, Raktim Ray (PhD) (@raktimplan.bsky.social), Dave Featherstone, Jackie Clarke, Diarmaid Kelliher & the audience for this very successful event last evening. It was wonderful to see so many people turn up, engage with the documentary & the issues it raises. Photo courtesy Mónica Legazpi
UofG Modern Languages & Cultures

Wonderful evening at Glasgow. Engaging panelists and audience. Discussed about the documentary Discounted Workers, and connected dots with solidarity networks, politics of liberation, Palestine and BDS. Thanks Piyusha Chatterjee for inviting. Always good to be with Dave Featherstone.