Fighting the Cuts: How they did it in 1931.

SmothPubs  Invergordon booklet tells the story.

See also:

Barry Duncan, Invergordon ’31: How Men of the RN Struck! and Won. Southampton, Duncan, 1976. 53pp. Original price £1 (out of print).  A very readable, informative account by a writer who knew the Navy, understood the politics, and had met some of those involved.   “The cover signal spells STRIKE.“

 

OUT NOW

Himalaya and Invergordon pamphlets (see previous postings)

 

COMING SHORTLY: Two new pamphlets due out midweek (week beginning 7/11/11)

Himalayan Encounters: Ladakh 1944. (Notes on a ‘Trip’ from Srinagar to Khalatse) by Kenneth Behrens.(2011). 20pp. £1.50

... with additional notes and observations on Kashmir and the North West Frontier Province.  

From Recollections: An Album, containing 136 photos with handwritten captions and notes, 2 maps, and 2pp. handwritten text. Kenneth Behrens, an officer in the British army in India, put the book together and sent it to his young daughter in 1945. The original album was presented to the British Library in December 2007.

UPDATE (June 2017)

A new pdf of this pamphlet with images is now available

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Invergordon 1931. Shipshape and Mutiny Fashion: How they Fought the Pay Cuts, by Liz Willis (2011). £0.70p

Financial crisis, national (coalition) government imposing a programme of drastic cuts in wages, supposedly forced on them by the state of the world economy, and insisting on the need for public-sector workers to accept a lowering of living standards, extending even to the armed forces, in the national interest… The year was 1931, and one of the first and most effective shows of resistance came in an unexpected quarter.

A shorter version of this text appears in the current issue of  Black Flag, No.234, late 2011, pp.17-19 (with some nice pictures).

Titles already available or coming shortly

Back-list (retrospectively added to this imprint):

As ‘Safety’ Saw It: Around Stornoway in the 1950s. Articles by Calum Smith.(2009). 56pp. £3

Women in the Spanish Revolution by Liz Willis (2010 edition)16pp. £1.00

What is Libertarian History? by Liz Willis (2011) 12pp. £0.60p [price marked 90p]

Forthcoming:

Himalayan Encounters: Ladakh 1944. (Notes on a ‘Trip’ from Srinagar to Khalatse) by Kenneth Behrens.(2011). 20pp. £1.50.

Invergordon 1931. Shipshape and Mutiny Fashion: How they Fought the Pay Cuts by Liz Willis (2011). £0.70p

Availability:

Copies of some of these may be found in Housmans bookshop or at meetings of the Radical History Network [Haringey/North East London].

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