I've had some time now to track down others' reviews of "An Anarchist's Story", the BBC's docu-drama on Ethel MacDonald, Secretary of the United Socialist Movement and English-speaking voice of autonomous Barcelona.
This piece of agit-prop was created by RB Click image above to download high-resolution 1228 x 1538 version for making a stencil.
John Taylor Caldwell, seaman and anarchist, born 14 July 1911; died 12 January 2007 I have just learned of the recent death – at age 95 – of John Taylor Caldwell, long-time colleague, companion and co-conspiritor of Guy Aldred. John T Caldwell was Aldred's literary executor and dedicated his energies, following Aldred's death in 1963, […]
BBC Scotland have just shown An Anarchist's Story, a drama documentary about Ethel MacDonald – the Bellshill Girl Anarchist – a member of Guy Aldred's United Socialist Movement who became the English-language radio voice of the CNT in Barcelona shortly before the notorious May days.
:: Blog the First :: Traditionally – and emotionally – we are conditioned to believe that there is "power in a union", be it a partnership of two people or a syndicat of thousands. Whether this maxim holds for unions which are nothing more than casual associations of convenience, motivated by greed, habit or apathy, […]