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This walking tour explores the radical history of the university city of Oxford Radical Walking Tour of Oxford - 800 years of struggle.
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This tour covers the history of radicalism in Oxford, from the Levellers in the English Civil War, through the Ranters, Percy Shelley, Oscar Wilde, both William Morrises (the revolutionary socialist and the Mosley-supporting motor boss), the Irish revolutionary James Connolly's visits at the turn of the last century, the battle against Oswald Mosley's fascists and support for the republican side i

n the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s, strikes and the growth of radical trade unionism in the city's car industry, and the tradition of radical history and politics, especially at Ruskin College, up to the miners' strike of 1984-85 and everything in between. Ciaran Walsh is an experienced and highly engaging tour guide, with a wealth of knowledge and commitment to preserving and continuing Oxford's radical traditions. Tours generally last around two hours and are on Sunday starting at 1pm from the steps of the Clarendon Building on Broad Street (near the Bodleian Library). Advance booking is essential by phoning 01865723604. The recommended price is £10 per person - £5 for unemployed and students, though group rates can also be negotiated. Tours, especially for groups, can also be arranged at other times. Ciaran also does an additional tour of Jericho, the old working class and industrial district of Oxford. Contact 01865723604 for further details.

15/04/2024

40 years since the miner's strike.

A unique insight into one of British history’s most dramatic events: the 1984-85 Miners’ Strike. Forty years on, this is the raw first-hand experience of those who lived through the UK’s longest strike.

06/03/2024

STOP THE GENOCIDE, LET THE REFUGEES RETURN, FREE PALESTINE NOW! ✊🏻🇮🇪🇵🇸

We are marking the sad loss of Shane MacGowan and Sinéad O'Connor in the last twelve months with this arrangement of a traditional Irish Gaelic song that celebrates the fight against colonial invasio

01/03/2024

17/10/2023

Shameful!

17/10/2023

FREE JULIAN ASSANGE NOW!

16/10/2023

They hang the man
And beat the woman
Who steal the goose
From off the Common
But let the greater criminals
Loose who steal the Common
From off the goose!

Pleacher, ether, frith, smeuse, prick-nickle... Meet the lost words of the hedgerow, your names for the evening, a foragable feast for all!

16/10/2023

Anyone interested in a Radical Walking Tour soon? The students are back, there is intense and passionate organising going on in Oxford in Solidarity with the Palestinians, and the Town and Gown divide and struggle remains an ever present factor of daily life in Oxford. And of course the uk government is populated (as ever) by reprobates who attended the University here. Message me if you want a survey, and drift through '800 Years of Social Struggle in Oxford'!

02/10/2023

Arrogant self-entitled sh*tehawks, who dwelt in Oxford, for a few years, are perfectly happy to see the world burn, as long as they can maintain their sick fantasy of wealth, power and the good life, at the expense of everyone else.

The Westbury People's Gallery brings you the Crazy World of Rishi Sunak!MusicCiaran Walsh: vocalsMalcolm Atkins: keyboards and productionChris Hills: drumsDa...

29/09/2023

You Noble Diggers All Stand Up Now, Stand Up Now!

The Modest Proposals proudly present the Diggers Song Copyright Gerard Winstanley . Dedicated to the people who are taking away Oxford' s community spaces and in solidarity with Land Justice Oxfordsh

29/09/2023

You Noble Diggers All Stand Up Now!

24/09/2023

We may add some more events in the coming days, so please check this page for updates! If you have any questions about the accessibility of any events below, please get in touch with us at landjust…

20/09/2023

Undoubtedly, a slow motion Genocide, and shame on the Human Race.

This is episode 1 of “The International,” a world-spanning video series brought to you by Jacobin and the Progressive International.75 years ago, the Palesti...

18/09/2023

Absolutely brilliant!

07/09/2023

Remembering the International Brigades in Oxford, Friday 8th December 2023

On Friday 8th December 2023, The Oxford International Brigade Memorial Committee (OxIBMComm) and “The Mighty Redox” celebrate, in film and in music, the solidarity of the anti-fascist International Brigades of the 1930s. More than 50,000 volunteers from over 50 countries across the world came to...

06/09/2023

Excellent stuff from Rory 'Rawz' Campbell, curator of this event. The authentic voice of Oxford.

08/08/2023

This genocide has been rumbling on for decades, with the concrete support ot the US, UK, Australia, France, and tacit support from the EU and UN and China. Are the West Papuans 'unpeople', 'subhuman' to be treated this way!? as the Indonesians and their unreconstructed imperialist allies seem to think? War mongering capitalist entities like Thales should be removed from the world. FORSHAME!
The West Papuans are the most heroic people on earth!
FREE WEST PAPUA NOW!

First contact was made with some Kiriwok villages in 2000 but modernity in the form of Chinese drones, Serbian mortars, French rockets came just twenty-one years later to annihilate them. The Indonesian military attacks on Kiwirok, some twelve kilometres from occupied West Papua’s border with inde...

09/07/2023

We may have lost Cowley Carnival this year but at least Horns of Plenty are here. Horrified to see what has been done to the much loved and historic East Oxford Community Centre.

14/05/2023

Support the Campaign to Keep Campsfield Closed as the solidarity fundraiser this Friday night
https://www.wegottickets.com/event/577634 #

An evening of international song, music and performance Featuring: Mila Todd; Rebel, entertainer, artist, singer/songwriter, spoken word poet Didcot Red Kites Socialist Street Choir Open Mike Session -all welcome to join in! Raising money to support the Keep Campsfield Closed Campaign https://keepca...

12/05/2023

Let us Rise!

⚒️ 𝗠𝗘𝗡 𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗜𝗦𝗛 𝗕𝗨𝗧 𝗣𝗥𝗜𝗡𝗖𝗜𝗣𝗟𝗘𝗦 𝗟𝗜𝗩𝗘 🚩
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James Connolly was a trade unionist, Socialist and Republican. Connolly led the Irish Transport and General Workers Union as well as its armed wing the Irish Citizen Army. Connolly was ahead of his time in many aspects of his politics, particularly in his feminist principles and effective organising among the working class.

Connolly led the Irish Citizen Army through the Easter Rising. Connolly was one of the main minds behind the wording of the Proclamation read by Padraig Pearse.
Connolly was defiant during the Rising and after the Rebels surrender he was ordered to be executed by the British.

On the 12th May 1916, a gallant Connolly was strapped to a chair and executed in Kilmainham Gaol.

Empire’s Fall and Tyrannies Perish
We Will RISE Again! 🚩

Connolly’s legacy continues to be a source of inspiration for our comrades and across the world, including being our namesake. We honour Connolly by continuing the fight, as young Socialist Republicans, for the Republic of equality and justice he envisioned!

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Agitate! Educate! Organise!

Connolly Youth Movement

11/05/2023

The bloodstained, greedy parasites should be expropriated. Their ill gotten gains should be redistributed for Reparations and global social justice.

Not only is the depiction of the royals a hostile act – it was painted on top of a mural by a local street artist

02/05/2023

The tendency of capitalism is the global devaluation of labor, an abstraction covering over the four-fold murders of war, famine, pestilence, and neglect that characterize our neo-liberal, incarcerating, planet-wrecking times. It is the widespread whisper, the secret thought, the unindicted accusati...

21/03/2023

Excellent piece on the importance and centrality of a critical pedagogy of resistence, and the complete refunctioning, and re-envisioning of education.
Agitate
Educate
Organise

In the face of the current fascist threat, progressives need to recover and reframe the discourse and purpose of education as an empowering political project.

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We may have lost Cowley Carnival this year but at least Horns of Plenty are here. Horrified to see what has been done to the much loved and historic East Oxford Community Centre.

'Autogeddon' by Heathcote Williams with backing from the wonderful Oxford Improvisers at the Confluence Cafe as part of the Great Big Green Week. It is a magnificent and explosive piece of writing by the great Heathcote Williams and as relevant as ever.

Impromptu, short notice recitation of the first part of Heathcote Williams' amazing critque of our mobile dystopia, 'Autogeddon' with backing from the wonderful Oxford Improvisers, at the Confluence Cafe as part of the Great Big Green Week, at St Mary & St Nicholas Church, Littlemore. Acoustics could be better, as could my rendition, but this explosive work remains relevant as ever. The inhabitants of North America Spend sixty-two thousand years a week Inside these prosthetic tin-cans Interminably punched out in cybernetic grease-pits Under militaristic conditions.