Monday, January 13, 2014
You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times by Howard Zinn (beacon Press 1994)
Thursday, April 22, 2010
One Bright Shining Moment: The Forgotten Summer of George McGovern (2005)
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Hairstyles and historians
Weekly Bulletin of The Socialist Party of Great Britain 135
Dear Friends,
Welcome to the 135th of our weekly bulletins to keep you informed of changes at Socialist Party of Great Britain @ MySpace.
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Recent blogs:
Re-cycling food waste Indian Earthquake: Did it really kill? Money Must Go
Coming Events:
Public Debate between Adam Smith Institute (Eamonn Butler) and the Socialist Party (Richard Headicar).
Thursday, 4th February, 7.00pm
Small Hall, Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London. WC1.
Film: Capitalism and Other Kids Stuff
2pm, Saturday 30th January
The Workshop 53 Earlham Road, Norwich NR2 3AD
Radical Film Forum,
Sundays 6pm - 52 Clapham High Street, London SW4 7UN.
31st January - Manufacturing Consent (part two)
Quote for the week:
"Read the paper - humdrum
Henley Regatta - page one
Eat die - ho hum
Page three - big bum
Giving a lunatic a loaded gun.
He walks - others run
Thirty dead - no fun
Foreigners feature as figures of fun
Do something destructive chum
Sit right down - write a letter to The Sun
Say... 'Bring back hangin' for everyone'"
John Cooper Clarke - 'Suspended Sentence'>
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Howard Zinn (1922-2010)
So sad to read that Howard Zinn died today of a heart attack. He was such a towering figure. His loss will be immense.
After all these years, this is still one of my favourite political essays:
Howard Zinn's 'Je Ne Suis Pas Marxiste'
Addendum
History Is A Weapon website have been good enough to place Zinn's best known work, 'A People's History Of The United States', online. You can read it here.
Pass on the link.
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
The dark haired bloke from the romcom films reads Eugene Debs
From a public performance of Howard Zinn's Voices of a People's History of the United States, Mark Ruffalo reads excerpts from Eugene Debs' 1918 Canton, Ohio anti-war speech. A speech for which Debs was arrested under the 1917 Espionage Act and sentenced to ten years in the Atlanta Penitentiary.
The full text of Debs' 1918 speech is available here.
More speeches from Zinn's Voices of a People's History of the United States - performed by the likes of Alfre Woodward, Danny Glover, Josh Brolin, Sandra Oh and Marisa Tomei - are available here.
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Howard Zinn's 'A People's History of the United States' 8/8
The final part of the audio book of Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States, as read by Matt Damon.
This episode deals with an overview of the audio series and also includes an epilogue from Howard Zinn himself.
DOWNLOAD LINK: A People's History (8 of 8)
FILE NAME: a peoples history 8 of 8.mp3
FILE SIZE: ~35.04 megabytes
LENGTH: 51:02
Further Reading on Howard Zinn:
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Howard Zinn's 'A People's History of the United States' 7/8
The penultimate part of the audio book of Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States, as read by Matt Damon.
The seventh part deals with the emergence of the United Farm Workers movement led by César Chávez; growing opposition to US Foreign Policy in Central America in the eighties; and the left's response to the rise of the 'New Democrats' in the nineties.
DOWNLOAD LINK: A People's History (7 of 8)
FILE NAME: a peoples history 7 of 8.mp3
FILE SIZE: ~35.04 megabytes
LENGTH: 51:02
Further Reading on Howard Zinn:
Monday, January 21, 2008
Howard Zinn's 'A People's History of the United States' 6/8
Apologies for the delay in putting up the rest of the Zinn audio book. The last three parts will be uploaded over the next three days.
This is the sixth part of the audio book of Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States, as read by Matt Damon.
It continues with the emergence of the American Indian Movement; deals with protest music and politics; the growing anti-nuclear movement; and the left's response to the new political climate of Reaganomics.
DOWNLOAD LINK: A People's History (6 of 8)
FILE NAME: a peoples history 6 of 8.mp3
FILE SIZE: ~31.02 megabytes
LENGTH: 45:10
Further Reading on Howard Zinn:
Tuesday, January 08, 2008
Howard Zinn's 'A People's History of the United States' 5/8
The fifth part of the audio book of Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States, as read by Matt Damon.
It continues with the history of the anti-draft movement; the prison revolts and the emergence of the American Indian Movement.
DOWNLOAD LINK: A People's History (5 of 8)
FILE NAME: a peoples history 5 of 8.mp3
FILE SIZE: ~35.73 megabytes
LENGTH: 52:02
Further Reading on Howard Zinn:
Monday, January 07, 2008
Howard Zinn's 'A People's History of the United States' 4/8
The fourth part of the audio book of Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States, as read by Matt Damon.
It continues with the history of opposition to the Vietnam War; the emerging Women's Movement and prison revolts in the early seventies:
DOWNLOAD LINK: A People's History (4 of 8)FILE NAME: a peoples history 4 of 8.mp3
FILE SIZE: ~35.17 megabytes
LENGTH: 51:13
Further Reading on Howard Zinn:
Sunday, January 06, 2008
Howard Zinn's 'A People's History of the United States' 3/8
The third part of the audio book of Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States, as read by Matt Damon.
It continues with the history of the growing opposition to the Vietnam War in the late sixties:
DOWNLOAD LINK: A People's History (3 of 8)FILE NAME: a peoples history 3 of 8.mp3
FILE SIZE: ~34.77 megabytes
LENGTH: 50:38
Further Reading on Howard Zinn:
Saturday, January 05, 2008
Howard Zinn's 'A People's History of the United States' 2/8
The second part of the audio book of Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States, as read by Matt Damon.
It covers such subjects as the aftermath of the Civil Rights Movement, the emergence of such groups as League of Revolutionary Black Workers, and the growing opposition to the Vietnam War:
DOWNLOAD LINK: A People's History (2 of 8)FILE NAME: a peoples history 2 of 8.mp3
FILE SIZE: ~34.84 megabytes
LENGTH: 50:45
Further Reading on Howard Zinn:
Friday, January 04, 2008
Howard Zinn's 'A People's History of the United States' 1/8
Following on from the uploading of the Socialist Thinkers Series, I thought I'd turn my attention to posting the audio book of Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States, as read by Matt Damon.
It's in eight parts, so please bear with me.
A note of information: though the book of the same name covers the period of 1492 onwards, the audio book focuses on the twentieth century. Part one covers the subject of the Civil Rights Movement, and the earlier period of American-African self-organisation in the twenties and thirties:
DOWNLOAD LINK: A People's History (1 of 8)
FILE NAME: a peoples history 1 of 8.mp3
FILE SIZE: ~34.87 megabytes
LENGTH: 50:47
Further Reading on Howard Zinn: