My main object was to write a readable story full of human interest and based on the happenings of everyday life, the subject of Socialism being treated incidentally."

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A Very British Coup – the book can be seen being read by the former girlfriend of the British Prime Minister In 2008, an adaptation by Tom Mclennan, was commissioned by the PCS Union as part of its contribution to the 2008 Liverpool Capital of Culture events. It was performed at various venues in Liverpool and later in Hastings at an event organised by the Tressell Society. RT is very good on the painful subject of working class stupidity, meaning their limitless capacity to vote for the parties of the rich and view any leftwing socialist parties as limbs of Satan. Most of this book is made up of a series of very uncomfortable debates between a couple of goodlyhearted socialist guys and their hostile fellow workers. They say stuff like I first came across this while reading the Secret Diary of Adrian Mole - a "sacred text" of mine when I was about 12. Adrian, wanting to be an intellectual, had got hold of the book but - I think - wasn´t sure he wanted to read a book about badly dressed stamp collectors. Now this book itself has become something of a sacred text to a lot of people and - finally getting around to reading it at 44 years young - I can see why. We've had Free Trade for the last fifty years and today most people are living in a condition of more or less abject poverty, and thousands are literally starving. When we had Protection things were worse still. Other countries have Protection and yet many of their people are glad to come here and work for starvation wages. The only difference between Free Trade and Protection is that under certain circumstances one might be a little worse that the other, but as remedies for Poverty, neither of them are of any real use whatever, for the simple reason that they do not deal with the real causes of Poverty.'Over-population!' cried Owen, 'when there's thousands of acres of uncultivated land in England without a house or human being to be seen. Is over-population the cause of poverty in France? Is over-population the cause of poverty in Ireland? Within the last fifty years the population of Ireland has been reduced by more than half. Four millions of people have been exterminated by famine or got rid of by emigration, but they haven't got rid of poverty. P'raps you think that half the people in this country ought to be exterminated as well." This book is about the ugly side of capitalism and the hardships it causes working people, it is a book calling for socialism by pointing out the systemic failures of the capitalist system and how these will only be overcome once private ownership is abolished. There would have been quite a long period after the second world war when people might have smugly felt that that harsh face of capitalism had become a thing of the past and that now the abject poverty facing people as described in this book, where people were required to be able and willing to work all day and all week, and still live in poverty, had become unthinkable. But we have returned to a time when people can work (and even work in multiple jobs) while still not having the basic requirements of life: shelter, food, clothing. Tressell was the pen name of an Irishman, Robert Noonan; he took it in honour of his trade, painting and decorating. Last year I adapted his masterpiece as a play which was performed at the Liverpool Everyman Theatre then at the Chichester theatre festival. The idea to do the adaptation came from its director, Christopher Morahan. He says of the novel: "It's the antidote to the double dip, what it's like to be working or not as the case may be, funny, true, angry and timeless. It changed my dad's life as it did mine." Writing in the Manchester Evening News in April 1946 George Orwell praised the book's ability to convey "[w]ithout sensationalism and almost without plot... the actual detail of manual work and the tiny things almost unimaginable to any comfortably situated person which make life a misery when one's income drops below a certain level". He considered it "a book that everyone should read" and a piece of social history that left one "with the feeling that a considerable novelist was lost in this young working-man whom society could not bother to keep alive". [4] RT was also not around to observe the progress of the Russian experiment in socialism. I wonder what he would have said to that.

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A stage adaptation, written by Archie Hind and directed by David Hayman, was performed in 1984 by the Scottish agitprop theatre company 7:84. There are echoes in the art of a range of socialist artists and posters, especially of the kind that is held at the People's History Museum in Manchester, yet it never feels unduly owing too much to any of these reference points. And the art is at its best when it happily wheels through genres (the lectures of Barrington) and time (there's a beautifully subtle appearance at the inquest of a particularly awful politician at his historically worst), whilst also happily allowing these to be secondary to the narrative. There's a lovely physicality to all the characters which also means the dialogue stretches - of which there are many - are not too gloopy because the characters are always in motion in some way. These are the wretches who cause poverty: they not only devour or waste or hoard the things made by the worker, but as soon as their own wants are supplied--they compel the workers to cease working and prevent them producing the things they need. Most of these people!' cried Owen, his usually pale face flushing red and his eyes shining with sudden anger, 'most of these people do not deserve to be called human beings at all! They're devils! They know that whilst they are indulging in pleasures of every kind--all around them men and women and little children are existing in want or dying of hunger.' " In the 1900s the two paths socialism could take were already mapped: revolutionary and parliamentary. The party Tressell joined, the SDF, was revolutionary. We know that path led to the disaster of the Soviet Union. But the reformist path taken in Britain has led, after the successes of the 1945 Labour government, to the watering down and sluicing away of all socialist aspirations by New Labour. Does Tressell say anything to us? Can we compare our world to the Hastings of 1905?Ball, F. C. (1979) [1973]. One of the Damned: Life and Times of Robert Tressell. London: Lawrence & Wishart Ltd. p.10. I read the complete, unedited text, after being given it as a rather thoughtful Christmas present. It is rightly heralded as a classic piece of working-class literature, as it takes you into the brutish yet everyday horrors endured by the British working-class, at a time when socialism was beginning to gain ground. As Owen thought of his child's future there sprung up within him a feeling of hatred and fury against the majority of his fellow workmen."

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Almost 100 years after it was first published, the relevance of this work, and it's ability to speak to us in the 21st century is surely a stark indictment of our time.

The workers at Rushton & Co were typical of the firms employing labour at that time. Rushton was the boss, whilst Hunter (also known as Nimrod or Misery) was the foreman, but both these men put the fear of God into the workers, because the actual fact of being watched or the fear of being watched loomed large. Within the group were the painters, decorators, boy apprentices, as well as people like Owen who could turn his hand to more intricate drawing and painting. Their wives and children shared their misery, with women doing sewing, cleaning or washing whilst their betters were seen in carriages and big hats. The novel exposed the raw competition, not just between the different building companies or the classes, but also between workers at every level with the employers always trying to cut the cost of the job by taking the wages down from seven pence an hour to five pence halfpenny, with everybody pitched against each other. Even families wouldn’t help in the support of their mother and father who lived with their daughter-in-law. My father was a house painter – and this is set amongst a group of house painters. I worked with my father for a couple of years while I was finishing my first degree. I’ve never really had a head for heights, and so that made a lot of the job an exercise in terror for me. But one of the things that painting does, that most of the other jobs I’ve done since don’t do, is it allows you to see a job finished. So much work today is task based and all part of an extreme division of labour, such that nothing one does ever really feels like it was you that did it. Painting isn’t like that. 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