Speaker: Colin Waugh. Colin, author of the pamphlet 'Plebs': The Lost Legacy of Independent Working-Class Education, will explain how trade unionists, mainly miners & railway-workers who were students at Ruskin College, Oxford in 1909, went on 'strike' (actually a boycott of specific lectures & lecturers) in an attempt to prevent the principal from being sacked, in the process creating a national system of socialist adult education genuinely independent of the powers-that-be, parts of which survived until the 1960s. He will say why he thinks there is an urgent need to rebuild this tradition today, & talk about some of the efforts that are being made to do this.
Times 7.30 Buffet (please bring something if you can) 8.00 Talk & discussion, followed by social ending.
Sat, 12/04/2014 - 19:30
Regular event?:
This is not a regular event
Town/City:
LONDON
Postcode:
E114LJ
Organised by:
News From Nowhere Club.
Member:
Organiser is not an NFP member
Price:
Free entry. Voluntary donations invited.
Venue:
Epicentre, West Street, Leytonstone E11 4LJ.
Contact:
Enquiries 0208 555 5248 or 07443 480 509 info@newsfromnowhereclub.org.uk http://www.raymondwilliamsfoundation.org.uk/NfNHome.html
Wheelchair Accessibility:
yes 