Issue 8 of the LWG bulletin, scanned in by Sparrows Nest Archive, Nottingham.
Contents include: Provincial Newspapers Wages Struggle, Post Office struggles, Direct Action Movement conference report, British Rail, Pour Une Intervention Communiste write, LWG - first quarter of 1980, 5th Congress of the CNT-AIT.
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Can we just take a moment to
Can we just take a moment to appreciate that cover, which is a brutally detourned image from the UK comic 2000AD?
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Fozzie wrote: Can we just
Fozzie
So good. Who's face is on Dredd's body?
Fozzie wrote: Can we just
Fozzie
So good. Who's face is on Dredd's body?
Looks like Neil Kinnock,
Looks like Neil Kinnock, though I don't recall his hair ever looking that bouncy.
Edit, wait probably Scargill, found this photo of the two side by side,
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/07/14/article-0-00EFF37F00000191-293_468x619.jpg
Never noticed how much they looked alike before.
My first guess had been
My first guess had been Livingstone but the small print says it's actually Ross Evans - not a name/face I recognised, but I suppose TUC heads aren't always the most recognisable figures? I like that the contents include "atrocious duplicating" as well.
R Totale wrote: My first
R Totale
Thanks, I could've seen that if I'd bothered to look properly. Sorry.
I have LWG Bulletin 13 and 14
I have LWG Bulletin 13 and 14 (although my 14 has a big chunk missing from the cover).
I will put out feelers for the missing issues.
That would be appreciated!
That would be appreciated! Thanks :)
The trade union leader whose
The trade union leader whose head we appropriated was Moss Evans who at the time was General Secretary of the TGWU. How soon they forget.
'Ross Evans' was either a result of a flaw in the typewriter (probably the rather decrepit one in the basement of Rising Free), or possibly of a flaw in the London Worker doing two fingered typing on it. A couple of generations of subsequent reproduction have completely lost the bottom of what started out as a capital B, and thus spoiled the 'joke'. Moss Evans = Boss Evans. I'd like to say we were able to sustain this level of wit. Unfortunately...