Filmed at 2013 Bristol Anarchist Bookfair Radical History Zone
Di Parkin was a revolutionary activist from the early 1960′s to the 1980′s. This talk focusses on her personal memories as an anarcho-syndicalist in the 1960′s and on records and interviews with other members of the Syndicalist Workers’ Federation (British section of the IWA) and its links to the Spanish CNT in exile in London.
Di recalls first-hand her journey towards the International Socialists and then anarchism, ‘disorderly demonstrations’, and attending meetings where she might encounter the likes of a Wobblie, a veteran of the Durutti column… or a police spy. “Viva La Revolucion, Viva El CNT!”
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