Class consciousness in the North East

You are invited to visit the 2nd Ever North East Working Class Bookfair, sponsored by North East area NUM.

2nd Annual Working Class Bookfair
Sat 22 Nov 2008 12 - 4pm
Durham Clayport (central) Library
Millennium Place, Durham City

Here is some evidence of the degree of class consciousness in the North East UK region;

This was sent out;

"You are invited to visit the 2nd Ever North East Working Class Bookfair, sponsored by North East area NUM.

2nd Annual Working Class Bookfair
Sat 22 Nov 2008 12 - 4pm
Durham Clayport (central) Library
Millennium Place, Durham City

There are no bookshops in the North East for working class people to view our history and contemporary movements’ literature, and so building on the success of the first bookfair last year, we are launching the 2nd Working Class Bookfair.

The range of local groups invited includes; political groups, Trade Unions, community groups, campaign groups, and history societies. For further information - 07931301901"

The reply;

"Today at 4:58pm
Report MessageThanks for the information,I will try and make it.I am really into learning about the Working Mans struggle for his rights and decent conditions.
The old bitch Thatcher did "untold" damage to our once thriving area.the
legacy of Drink and Drugs is all down to her utter hatred of the Working
man and his organised Labour force.Drugs were "never" a problem,but
when you close a Coal Mine you close a entire Community,and they are
the result.Cheers again"

Working Class Bookfair

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Birth of Our Power

17.11.2008 20:10

"class happens when some men, as a result of common experiences (inherited or shared), feel and articulate the identity of their interests as between themselves, and as against other men whose interests are different from (and usually opposed to) theirs. The class experience is largely determined by the productive relations into which men are born--or enter involuntarily. Class-consciousness is the way in which these experiences are handled in cultural terms: embodied in traditions, value-systems, ideas, and institutional forms. If the experience appears as determined, class-consciousness does not. We can see a logic in the responses of similar occupational groups undergoing similar experiences, but we cannot predicate any law. Consciousness of class arises in the same way in different times and places, but never in just the same way." - Edward Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class

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