A series
of short labour movement documentaries co-ordinated by Mark Metcalf, a member of
the NUJ and Calderdale Trades Union Council
As of 23rd October 2023
Mark Metcalf - Fighting Talk short documentaries
@markmetcalf07 metcalfmc@outlook.com
07392 852561
‘Bread
not Bayonets’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0UxMadnIEA
The
story of Halifax in August 1842 when local workers downed tools to join
a nationwide general strike for better pay and extended voting rights and
found
themselves ruthlessly suppressed with many killed and injured.
32 minutes long
Directed and edited by Francesca Platt and produced by Mark
Metcalf.
Remember
the Dead, Fight for the Living
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLyeMYnpVjo
Highlighting how work can kill and why joining a trade union
and getting organised is the best form of self-defence.
2 minutes long
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdcrdIlxs60
What happened to
orphan children from Liverpool who were moved from 1879 onwards to Halifax to work
for nothing?
5 minutes
Andrew
Watson Halifax's Black Footballing Pioneer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvYf6kZn_7A
A call for a plaque to be mounted at the Halifax school that
the first black football international attended in the late 19th
century
July
2023
Remembering
Ellen Strange - Memorial Walk for Domestic Violence Victims
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0_uhqtIuoI
9 minutes
July 2023
Keep Our
NHS Public Leeds - 75 Years of The NHS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2GVgLQVGDA
11 mins 19 seconds
June 2023
Pay Up to Save The NHS - The Junior Doctors Strike
Why Junior Doctors are taking strike action and how without
a victory in their pay battle the NHS faces even more problems in the future in
recruiting staff.
Halifax
Chartist Hero Remembered: Benjamin Rushton
On Friday 23rd June, 50 people attended a Calderdale Trades
Council Benjamin Rushton commemorative event in Lister Lane Cemetery,
Halifax.
Fourteen minutes of highlights of the event at:-
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