https://www.facebook.com/1437009556596154/photos/a.1437013883262388/2062...
I see from the WCH account that today is a proper historical Geordie anarchist anniversary: https://twitter.com/wrkclasshistory/status/1116335147526295553
i would love to have been there to see the faces when the 20 or so Chopwell Anarchists / miners who turned up .
an obituary for a dear friend, comrade, and activist
https://tynesideanarchistarchive.wordpress.com/2019/05/01/ewan-brown-obi...
Thanks for that tyneside anarchist. I first met Ewan through the student movement, likewise he then became a dear friend of mine. I'll miss him, as will many others.
sorry to hear that. Our thoughts to all of his friends, comrades and family.
Just reposted the obituary on our site.
thankyou
Anyone know anything about Yankee Jim Roberts, former Wobbly and "Geordie miner" but possibly originally from Kentucky? He's mentioned in P. Wood's book about the folk-singing Elliott mining family of Birtley as being a friend of theirs and a political influence. According to the book he'd returned to the UK after he'd "been chased out of the USA for his politics" and worked alongside the Elliotts at the local pit.
i,ll check this weekend as iam sure i read something about the Elliott family recently, cant remember where but will backtrack
Don't You Hear the H-bomb's Thunder?: Youth and Politics on Tyneside in the Late 'Fifties and Early 'Sixties
by John Charlton
is where i recently read aboot the elliotts, cant recall J Roberts tho...sorry
OK, thanks. Roberts seems a very obscure, likely interesting, character.
NEWCASTLE 'EWAN BROWN' ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR. MAY 9TH 2020
STAR N SHADOW CINEMA
https://www.facebook.com/NewcastleAnarchistBookfair/
Confirmed Stalls:
-Sisters Uncut
-Anarchist Federation
-Tyneside Anarchist Archive
-North East Anarchist Group
-SolFed
-Northumbria IWW
-Earth First!
-PM Press
-AK Press
-Active Distribution
-Freedom
-North East Hunt Monitors
-Sign it hear
-Dog Section Press
-Kate Sharpley Library
Confirmed Workshops:
-Supporting workers in struggle
-Chav Solidarity by D. Hunter
-Greif Spaces
-Stencil Art
-Newcastle Fight Center Workshop
Confirmed Music:
- The Whippet Beans
- Ex Total Chaos / Reptiles...new band.
-The Almighty Uprisers
-Andy T & band
https://tynesideanarchistarchive.wordpress.com/2019/03/24/virus-no-11-19...