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Take a look around refurbished craft and design centre
The Hub crafts and design centre in Sleaford has reopened this week after a £1.2million revamp and name change.
Tuesday, 25th May 2021, 6:11 pm
Taking a tour of the completed refurbishment project, from left - Adam Skidmore - architect, Paul Jenkinson - contract manager, Bryan Palmer - site manager, NKDC Executive Councillor Steve Clegg and Leader of NKDC Coun Richard Wright. EMN-211205-164832001
With one of the upper floors being rented out to a locally-based computer firm, owners, North Kesteven District Council took the opportunity to take on visitor and resident feedback to reshape how the arts space is used, resulting a new extension to accommodate extra, cafe, shop, workshop and dance studio space on the ground floor.
“Completed ‘under the difficult conditions created by the pandemic’ (xiii) the 2020 edition of the
Socialist Register seeks to ‘analyze the nature of digital capitalism and its contradictions’ (ix), doing so ‘within the history of technological change’ (x). In selecting this topic, the late Leo Panitch and Greg Albo’s goal was to highlight the extent to which ‘digital technology has become integral to capitalist market dystopia’ (ix), a necessary task given the prevalence of ‘cyber-utopian’ (ix) and ‘techno determinist’ (x) thought in the public and private realms. This kind of ‘celebrant’ ideology, which Robert McChesney (2013) outlined so well recently, provides a social license for centi-billionaires like Elon Musk, Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos to continue to have a disproportionate say in directing investments, allocating resources and setting the terms of production. In laying out this agenda, Panitch and Albo rightly place greater emphasis on ‘c
April 29, 2021
Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal We warmly welcome you to join us for a tribute to the life, activism and legacy of Ernie Tate (1934-2021).
Ernie Tate believed capitalism is a cruel and unjust system that has to be changed. Ernie was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1934 and emigrated to Canada in 1955. As a Marxist, union activist and revolutionary, Ernie spent his life working to achieve that in organizing against the war in Vietnam, in union struggles at Toronto Hydro, for protecting universal healthcare and living wages, and much else. Ernie, along with Tariq Ali, was a leading organizer of the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign in Britain, worked for Bertrand Russell’s International War Crimes Tribunal and was a founding member of the International Marxist Group in Britain.’ In 2014, Ernie published a memoir of his life on the far left in Canada and Great Britain called
April 23, 2021
Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Spring Following Ernie Tate’s death on February 5, 2021, numerous tributes have been published highlighting his lifelong commitment to socialism and remarkable contribution to the anti-war movement. (Links are provided below.) His two-volume memoir,
Revolutionary Activism in the 1950s & 60s, provides a detailed account of this work.
Ernie’s role as a union leader has received less attention. Working at Toronto Hydro from 1977 to 1995, he served as an Executive Board member and eventually as Vice-President of CUPE Local One, which represented roughly 500 blue collar and 450 clerical and technical workers at the utility.