#OnThisDay 50 years ago these girls led hundreds of us in a #schoolstrike for poetry, dignity and working class solidarity. It became quite the story… 
The #StepneyWords strike of 27 May 1971 made local, national and even international headlines. Some of our lives have never been quite the same since…
The Sun and Mirror were both on the #StepneyWords story
On the second day of the #StepneyWords #schoolstrike of 1971 we even marched all the way to Trafalgar Square. And back.
Two of the poets, Ramona and Pauline, holding #StepneyWords in the rain - I love this pic.
There’s a chapter covering the strike and related events in the @Routledge_MandC book Alternative Journalism, Alternative Voices
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Chris Searle himself writes about the whole saga in his memoir: Isaac and I, published by @FiveLeavesBooks with a cover by the great Dan Jones
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And there’s even a special issue of the @SAGE_Publishing journal @Race_Class entirely devoted to the work of Chris Searle
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Oh yes, and we won and he got his job back (eventually).
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