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Crowd braves rain from, & in solidarity with the Kurdish community & against West’s complicity with Islamist takeover in Syria. #Kurds #Bristol

07.02.2026 18:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

#OtD 7 Feb 1952 nine anarchist anti-Franco guerrillas of the Tallion action group were sentenced to death. Five were executed the following month but four (inc Miguel Garcia, pictured) had sentences commuted to life imprisonment and were later freed stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1069...

07.02.2026 16:25 — 👍 65    🔁 18    💬 1    📌 1

Our 'Coal Not Dole' exhibition is now on display at Bristol Archives until the end of February (Tuesday - Thursday).

07.02.2026 08:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Preparations for the 8th Bristol Radical History Festival (25-26 Apr) are advancing well! This year’s themes: General Strike; propaganda; Welsh risings; Utopias (& dystopias). Watch this space for full programme soon: tinyurl.com/458vrmmr #BRHF2026

07.02.2026 08:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It's crazy that Bristol had a statute of Colston the enslaver for decades, yet barely anyone knows about this guy. This book by @brisradhis.bsky.social is good at bringing him into the light.

19.01.2026 08:46 — 👍 30    🔁 10    💬 1    📌 0

Today in the US is Martin Luther King Jr. Day, commemorating the legendary civil right activist and socialist who was murdered supporting a strike of sanitation workers. While lauded today, when alive he was demonised by politicians and media stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1333...

20.01.2026 11:40 — 👍 70    🔁 25    💬 0    📌 1

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SATURDAY 25 APRIL @ M SHED
SUNDAY 26 APRIL @ THE CUBE MICROPLEX
8th annual Bristol Radical History Festival: talks, stalls, films, history walks & exhibitions.
This year’s event's 4 main themes: Propaganda, Utopias & Dystopias, Welsh history & the 1926 General Strike.

13.01.2026 20:27 — 👍 9    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1

Talk by Dave Hardwick tomorrow "How Chaddesley Corbett changed the world" Interesting slice of local working class history from SGMRG - South Gloucestershire Mines Research Group in #BS36. All welcome - see here - sgmrg.co.uk/diary-of-eve...

13.01.2026 20:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Online & In-Person Event: Wapping at 40. The Wapping Printworkers Strike was an important industrial struggle in the 1980's. Use this link and click through to book/register - www.marx-memorial-library.org.uk/event/521

13.01.2026 20:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0