Cry of the Poor

Reviewed by Keith Evans for Bristol Trades Union Council Cry of the Poor “being a Letter from Sixteen Working Men of Bristol to the Sixteen Aldermen of the City” First published by W. And F. Morgan, Bristol, 1871. This 2021 edition is published by Bristol Radical History Group with an afterword by Trish Mensah, IanContinueContinue reading “Cry of the Poor”

Support Bristol’s Library Assistants

Bristol libraries staff strike over antisocial shift patterns Thursday 28th April Picket lines will be in operation between 09:00 and 10:30 at Fishponds, Central, Bedminster, Henleaze and Redland libraries. Bristol Trades Union Council urges all trade unionists to support the pickets and join the “solidarity picnic” with supporters on College Green from 12 noon. AContinueContinue reading “Support Bristol’s Library Assistants”