BBC QT Well Red Protest

Next Thursday, in protest that BBC Question Time doesnt even try to represent working people or poor on it's "political programme" we are convening a twitter "Well Red Book Club."

The excuse is that Question Time is representative of the electorate makes it more and more isolated from real people. As those elected are from a smaller and ever decreasing "elite," and as a direct response the electorate is becoming snaller and smaller. This is almost like the plot of the book, "Seeing," by Jose Saramago!

None of those on the panel last night represented me,my values nor my class. The only "working class" person on the panel was David Davis, for goodness sake!

The books we will be discussing will be "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes.

Week 2 and 3

To make this a regular event, the following week we will be discussing "Mockingbird" by Walter Tevis. Week three will be "Seeing" by Jose Saramago.

We will, next week, in protest at BBC Question Time's ridiculous policy of keeping the majority of people from political discourse, be using the hashtag #bbcqt. See you on twitter! (@nwsocialist)

Our next get together will be in the Kirkie Puffer on Saturday 28th July at 11am. We'll be discussing "Sunset Song" by Lewis Grassic Gibbon and any other book you may have read over the holidays!


While you are online why don't you have a read and a watch of two organisations we support in action at Faslane Peace Camp?  Click HERE to see the shenanigans!

Next meeting!

Hey! As well as appearing in Kirkie Herald, we appeared in Bearsden/Milngavie Herald! Click HERE to read! Next meeting in Kirkie Library this Saturday (26th May) at 11am. We are in a room upstairs this time - ask at the desk if you are not sure of where.

 Other events - We will be showing a DVD in Kirkintilloch Leisure Centre on June 23rd at 11am - "Sylvia Pankhurst, Everything is Possible" and hope to have someone to speak on the feminism and Sylvia's fight for universal suffrage as well as her opposition to WW1 and her internationalism (details on the film HERE )



We will be travelling up to Faslane on 28th June for our contribution to the 30th anniversary of the Camp. We hope to have a demo, some food and perhaps a bit of music and performance at the gates! Email plottracer@googlemail.com if you would like to be part of this...

 Oh, and our bookclub is on Facebook - please join - we can all continue the book conversations there!

Next meeting, plus events!

Well Red Book Club will meet on 26th May at Kirkintilloch Library at 11am... please invite any lefty friends you know who like to read! We will be showing a DVD in the Leisure Centre on June 23rd at 11am - "Sylvia Pankhurst, Everything is Possible" and hope to have someone to speak on the feminism and Sylvia's fight for universal suffrage as well as her opposition to WW1 and her internationalism. We will be travelling up to Faslane on 28th June for our contribution to the 30th anniversary of the Camp. We hope to have a demo, some food and perhaps a bit of music and performance at the gates! Email plottracer@googlemail.com if you would like to be part of this...

Next Meeting!

...on 24th March in meeting room on first floor of William Patrick Library at 11am...  see you there!


(We will be discussing To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee - and any other books you care to bring and introduce us to!)

To Kill A Mockingbird

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...is the focus of our next meeting (come back here to find out the next venue)!  Get a copy at your local library and either come along to the meeting - or post your thoughts to our Facebook page; as a comment here - or email wellredlit@gmail.com

Welcome to Well Red!

Welcome to Well Red Book Club!

The Well Red book-club was first suggested by a group of friends who also happened to have a progressive left political outlook, as a forum for discussion and debate about culture and books.

Our first meeting was in Kirkintilloch Library, which was fitting given it's connections with Tom Johnston, the great socialist who, among other things helped to establish the left journal Forward in 1905.  The Library cafe was an excellent venue as it meant that a family were able to come along - the proximity of the Children's Library meant that the children were able to read and be read to while mum and dad took part in the proceedings!

Eleven people of all ages came along to our first meeting, and each of us spoke about our relationship with books, and gave a short "review" of a favorite book.  Some of the books people described were politcal and some had political themes.  Books discussed ranged from the Stieg Larsson trilogy, Watership Down, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Koestler's "Scum of the Earth," science fiction books such as the books of Iain M. Banks and Ursula le Guin and the recent books on the recent political upheavals in the west and beyond by Paul Mason.

It was agreed that we meet again on the 24th March - venue to be decided (watch this blog for further details!) and we would be discussing "To Kill a Mockingbird," by Harper Lee as well as personal recommendations and reviews of what people have recently read!

Please check back here for meeting times etc, and reviews by members!  If you are on Facebook, please "like" our bookclub page - See HERE