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Local trivia for my Hackney readers - the latest biog of Stalin reveals that the 5th Congress of the Russian Social-Democratic Workers Party took place in 1907....in the Brotherhood Church in De Beauvoir at the junction of Southgate Road/Balmes Road N1. ( now demolished ).
posted by Luke Akehurst at 8:41 am
Labour MP for North Durham since 2024. Labour Party activist since 1988 - firmly on the moderate wing of the party. Member of Labour’s NEC 2010-2012 and since 2020. National Secretary of Labour Students 1995-6. Parliamentary candidate for Aldershot (2001) and Castle Point (2005). Hackney Councillor (Chatham Ward) 2002-2014, Labour Group Chief Whip 2002-09, Chair of Health Scrutiny 2010-2014. Dad. Unite and GMB union member. All views expressed in a personal capacity. The rest will become evident from reading the blog.
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I think you should ask for a memorial to be put up to the many millions these three murdered (many of them socialists, all of them fellow human beings) - not only would it mightily p*** off all the nutters, it would serve as a reminder to all those who continue to peddle trite answers to the complexities of the real world.
9:26 am, May 22, 2007
But what would Luke and his running dog lackeys of world capital do with the cluster of betting shops, the bingo hall and the mini casino huddled on this famous site, the new opium of the people, from back when Stalin was a nice clean-shaven boy next door.
11:38 am, May 22, 2007
Actually Hackney Council has a "no casinos" policy.
You can blame our local magistrates for any betting shops - we keep opposing them but the magistrates keep licensing them.
11:53 am, May 22, 2007
I originally read this as 'the latest blog of Stalin'!
4:20 pm, May 22, 2007
Duncan,
I read it as Gordon Brown had been for a visit....
6:55 pm, May 22, 2007
Have you come across any pics of the church? I daresay any of the meeting will have been airbrushed...
Seriously, though, I'd be interested to see what the place looked like.
7:02 pm, May 22, 2007
and Lenin used to speak at public meetings in the Red Lion theatre pub in Angel...
3:40 pm, May 31, 2007
Quink, there's a film of an 'anti-pacifist riot' taking place at the Church in 1917 here http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/583515/index.html with a snapshot of the Church. I've been trying to find more images and Luke's just provided me with the exact location - thanks! I live on Southgate Rd and it's fascinating (not to say plain odd) to think of Stalin, Lenin and Trotsky lurking round here. The Evening Standard published a contemporary Mirror picture of the 'revolutionists' hiding their faces as they entered the church alongside an article outlining the Stalin biog.
1:54 pm, June 02, 2007
Another photo of the Brotherhood Church - being demolished in 1934:
http://www.viewimages.com/Search.aspx?mid=3365415&epmid=3&partner=Google
I used to live on Southgate Road myself and share Anon's fascination with this amazing fact.
A programme shown on BBC 4 a few weeks ago on historic relations between Russia and the UK mentioned the 1907 meeting and included a shot of the presenter, Stella Rimington, standing at the gateway to Rosemary Gardens, a photo of the church (which doesn't seem to be on Google Images) and the Mirror report on the meeting.
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