Transcribing the Past

  It was a weird and bizarre scene. Typical of the men who lived in these great woods, where the sound of giant timbers crashing to the ground never seemed to cease. It caught hold of Bob Dennis's throat and seemed likely to strangle him.   Lurching and pushing each other aside, the big-framed lumberjacks among whom his lot, at least for a time, was cast, came into the smoke-dried, sweltering bunkhouse, the atmosphere of which had a choking, steaming tang, eager for their evening meal. Like ravenous animals they fell over each other in their anxiety to seize the steaming dishes of fried pork, beans, and hot bread straight from the cook's oven. the cook, poor wretch, who appeared to have all the earmarks of the unfortunate afflicted with weak lungs was at his wits' end to cope even unsuccessfully with the frenzied demands upon his service. Lumberman was stamped upon each face. Here, in a land where Nature shows herself in her most relentless mood, men were apt to become at...

    Translated from Esperanto, original article can be found at Esperenta Retradio What we lose when cars silence the neighbourhoods When we criticise cars, the conversation typically focuses on issues of pollution, accidents and the vast amount of space occupied by cars in cities. These are all true and important consequences of car dominated societies, but there is still another problem which is discussed far less often. Cars do not just change the air and the streets, they also change relations between people. The car makes our lives more isolated, more closed off and less human. When we travel on foot or by bicycle, or using public transport we see the world differently. We notice the vendors at the street corners. We meet familiar faces, we muddle through a conversation with a neighbour, we see children playing, dogs walking and people sitting on park benches. Even a short trip can become a small social experience. But, in a private car we sit alone or nearly...

 The Two Nations; A May-day Message. NOTE: This is one of the four speeches which Guy Aldred recorded on tape. It was not the first to be recorded, though it is the first to be printed. The other three speeches are being transcribed and printed. The publication date will be announced shortly. Donors and Subscribers will receive these pamphlets as they appear. Please order extra copies, and help the circulation. Printed and published in United Kingdom by The Strickland Press, Glasgow C. 1. GUY A. ALDRED THE TWO NATIONS A May-Day Message The text of a Speech delivered on May 5th 1963 in Central Halls Glasgow. First Published 1968 Guy Aldred, November, 1962 We do change the world. One generation merges into another. The hopes of yesterday’s heroes and martyrs become the inspiring slogans of the martyrs and heroes of today, and by them are passed on to the heroes and martyrs that will be tomorrow. An unchanging yet changeless logic of development. —The Word; January 1961 Foreword This ...