tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6791096.post7935735056313616374..comments2024-03-02T22:28:45.521-05:00Comments on Inveresk Street Ingrate: Manchester, So Much To Answer FourImposs1904http://www.blogger.com/profile/04043116442576404667noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6791096.post-90983032698334898572010-12-20T10:49:10.490-05:002010-12-20T10:49:10.490-05:00My considered answers:
1. Damn. Not a good start....My considered answers:<br /><br />1. Damn. Not a good start. I don't have the foggiest and all my Billy Bragg albums are on our broken down lap top. <br /><br />Maybe the mention of gold in the lyric is a clue? A Spandau Ballet single when Gary Kemp came over all Red Wedgish? Through the Barricades?<br /><br />2. More than it has now? The number 142 rings a bell for some reason. It's either the number of members at the SPGB's foundation or it's the number of emails I've received from Toys 'R' Us in the last three days.<br /><br />(Actually, I'll go out on a limb and guess there was 142 signatories at the inaugural meeting but three names were later discovered to be false.)<br /><br />3. Arthur Ransome.<br /><br />4. The late, great Michael Gill.<br /><br />5. I want to say he was the leader of the Newport rebellion in the early nineteenth century, but given the musical tastes of Manchester Branch he probably played the flute in Pentangle.<br /><br />6. Philoren was Israel Renson and (Ian) Phillips. Their book was Money Must Go. <br /><br />More info on Renson <a href="http://invereskstreet.blogspot.com/2006/12/catching-up-keeping-up.html" rel="nofollow">over here</a>. (Scroll down.)<br /><br />7. Lenin, sealed trains and the worst Martin Rowson joke in the world . . . ever.<br /><br />8. I'm guessing Jack Fitzgerald. Hawkins? Whatever di happen to the Socialist Propagandist League?<br /><br />9. Hard one. It may be the establishment of the Dock Labour Scheme but I'll hazard a guess it was when Attlee's Labour Government sent in troops to smash a Dock Workers Strike.<br /><br />A controversial answer I know. Not because Attlee is everyone's favourite Labour Prime Minister but because it's controversial to mention class struggle and SPGB in the same blog post. ;-)<br /><br />I'm probably wrong, anyway.Imposs1904https://www.blogger.com/profile/04043116442576404667noreply@blogger.com