Alun Burge
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Alun Burge
@alunburge.bsky.social
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Wales and international solidarity - Chile, Nicaragua, Palestine Minnie Pallister, William Hazell & co-ops Honorary Research Fellow National Museum Wales & Swansea University
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Minnie Pallister now out in paperback. Lovely job...thanks @parthianbooks.bsky.social
Hello Julie. Good to be in touch.
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Women's History Today, the journal of the Women's History Network, is looking for new editorial team members.

Academics/independent scholars/PhD students with an interest in taking on a voluntary role, should contact Kate Murphy, Lead Editor, for more information: [email protected]
You’ll find this a far more agreeable space…
Where Minnie Pallister worshipped
I’m just going through the same process with my book on Welsh Solidarity with Chile - but my return trip is only to Merthyr. We should compare notes…
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Nazi Germany wasn’t Nazi Germany until it was. Everything was normal, life went on until it didn’t.
Early 1920s banner of Leningrad Bolshevik Party in its new home in Marx Memorial Library yesterday.
If you think it is right wing votes that are going to Reform and Labour’s going to Plaid in Wales, you need to look a bit more closely…
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Among yesterday's arrestees is Deborah Hinton, an 81-year old retired magistrate with an OBE.
That's Yvette Cooper's idea of a terrorist.
Language has been turned on its head.
The law has been turned on its head.
Murdering children is righteous.
Trying to stop it is terrorism.
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2nd reading of the Terrorism Bill, 14 December 1999. Home Sec Jack Straw responds to an MP asking if supporting international protests involve property damage would be counted as supporting terrorism: "Not even remotely".
This is the legislation being used to proscribe Palestine Action.
#Palestine
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If thousands of us stand up and say "I support #PalestineAction", what is the government going to do? Lock us all up for "terrorism" offences?
This is where we show them how solidarity works.
My latest with the great @doubledown.news
Brilliant afternoon taking Minnie Pallister Fearless Rebel back to @bexhillmuseum.bsky.social Thanks to Dave & John for invitation & hospitality
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The Netherlands just now ❤️❤️❤️🇵🇸

"If you're in the West Bank or Gaza in Iran or Syria or Lebanon and you see this...FREE FREE"

This is what the world thinks - turn off your tv and news station it's all propaganda.

The people want to stop the monstrous actions of Israel.
Not by chance that Reform was originally launched in Merthyr by Farage. Astute politician whatever the politics
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Gary lineker sends parting shot to BBC with George Orwell poem
Fair enough Molly. So in Wales would you recommend voting Plaid instead?
Wowzer gig last night talking about Minnie Pallister at a Purple Plaques event put on by Cardiff West Labour Party. (Aim = to get Minnie into the Welsh national consciousness)
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The deadline for the Pennar Scholarship in the Department of History & Welsh History at Aberystwyth University comes at the end of the month. The Department welcomes PhD proposals for research on the social and economic history of Wales in the period 1500 to 2000.
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Alchemy, alchemy, all they’ve got is alchemy…
Really enjoyed speaking with Dr Elin Jones about Minnie Pallister at the excellent Llandeilo Literature Festival yesterday. A memorable day