Talk at St Bride’s by Dr. Chris Allen
I have spent a lifetime searching for socialism. It all began when I was 13. I liked ‘alternative’ rock and punk music and, from that, my exposure to radical politics began. The ideas propounded by the bands that I was listening to fell into the categories of socialism and anarchism. They provided me with a way of understanding the world around me. It was 1983. This was Thatcher’s Britain. My father was variously in work, out of work and on strike. Why are good people treated so badly? It made no sense, until I began to listen to music.
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