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Old 30-08-2009, 23:49   #3
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Re: Accrington Discussion Class.

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Originally Posted by Bernard Dawson View Post
Before my time, but I remember being told about them by some of the older members of the Labour Party who use to attend on a Sunday night.

As you say the discussion classes were made up of lots of different people who shared an interest in radical politics.

I wonder if you could get people out on a Sunday night today to discuss political issues. Before television of course.
Thanks Bernard.
Groups like this, and other associations that offered workers further education, must have been very important places, to fight not just for themselves, and to be given a voice, but to fight for a fairer society in general.

I'm glad the meetings were moved to the Dowry Picture House, wherever that might have been, because it meant all those radicals who'd signed the pledge would also be able to join the debate.

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