SR - It’s Ecotastic, Mate!

Socialist Resistance have just produced the first issue of their glossy new quarterly. It includes important articles on ‘Building A United Left’, including Alan Thornett on Respect Renewal and Francois Duval on the LCR’s strategy of building a broad anti-capitalist party in France.
The magazine also reflects SR’s turn to ‘ecosocialism’, and includes the Green Party’s Derek Wall [...]

Ilan Pappe Speaks In Bristol

Ilan Pappe was one of the keynote speakers at the Bristol Nakba Conference last Saturday (26th April). The conference, organised by Bristol PSC, attracted a respectable-sized audience to the Malcolm X Centre, and featured a range of speakers and several useful workshops.
But for me it was Ilan’s speech which was the highlight of the day. An [...]

Jake Slays The Bear

Saxophonist Jake McMurchie’s Bristol-based quartet put in a superb performance on Friday night at The Be-Bop Club, which hosts regular live jazz each week at The Bear on Hotwell Road. Jake was accompanied by James Chadwick on guitar, Dave Goodier on bass, and Andy Hague on drums. Most of the numbers they played were originals, [...]

The Surprising Adventures Of Baron Münchhausen

Anyone familiar with the films of ex-Python Terry Gilliam will surely know all about the wonderful exploits of Baron Münchhausen. An officer in the Russian army of the eighteenth century, he was also the subject of a number of books claiming to recount his strange adventures - which included travelling to the moon, riding on a [...]

Bristol Respect - Stop John Bolton!

Bristol Respect has issued the following statement:
Last Monday’s Bristol Respect branch meeting unanimously voted to organise against John Bolton’s speaking engagement at The Watershed on 29th May. We call on the Stop The War Campaign and other progressive groups and individuals to come together in order to ensure that we achieve the strongest possible [...]

John Bolton on the U.N.

Thanks to Josh for flagging up this video on Bristol Social Forum. It’s essential viewing for anyone who hasn’t already seen this poisonous apologist for US imperialism in action. There WILL BE major protests against his visit to the Watershed on 29th May - come along and make your voice heard.

 

Anti-War Photo Archive

© Richard Searle
Thanks to Richard Searle for providing a link to the North Manchester Against Wars photo archive. This is an excellent and growing resource featuring pictures of the many anti-war activities going on around the country. As you can see you when you visit the site, the photos can be used by anti-war activists [...]

Mark Steel Live In Bristol!

Comedian Mark Steel will be doing a benefit gig at the Comedy Box, at the Hen & Chicken pub, on Friday 2nd May. The Hen & Chicken is at 210 North Street,  Southville. Tickets for the show, Vive La Revolution, are on sale for £10 from the Comedy Box website -
http://www.thecomedybox.co.uk/
and from Colston Hall Box [...]

Benn Blasts Bolton

In case you’re not familiar with the loathsome John Bolton, here’s a video from a couple of years back of Tony Benn giving him both barrels…

Watershed Hosts War Criminal

Bristolians will be appalled to hear that former US Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton will be speaking at the Watershed on 29th May as part of their ‘Festival Of Ideas’. A leading attack-dog for the neo-cons in the Bush administration, Bolton was one of the key figures behind that government’s so-called ‘war on [...]