Monaghan, Terry
2013 "Monaghan, Terry", 2013, HistoryTalk Terry was born in 1943 and grew up in Paddington, west London. He went to Queens Park and Marylebone grammar schools. From his schooldays he was a radical and was involved in the music scene in the 1960s. his parents were both teachers and in th...
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"Monaghan, Terry", 2013, HistoryTalk
Terry was born in 1943 and grew up in Paddington, west London. He went to Queens Park and Marylebone grammar schools. From his schooldays he was a radical and was involved in the music scene in the 1960s. his parents were both teachers and in the CPGB. He attended Regent Street Polytechnic but then went to work on building sites and factories, for example the Walls meat factory and CAV as an inspector in the 1960s and AEC and later Heathrow Airport . He describes working conditions, the shop- floor regime and production process. He notes the engineering sector in west London- the era of mass factories and its destruction as well as the historical process from WW2. He also notes the Irish migration to west London and the blacklists of militants as well as Caribbean immigration to work on London Transport. He returned to HE in the 1970s at the City of London Poly and then got a job there as AVA technician for 15 years. He was also closely involved with dance. He discusses how working class people organise themselves at all levels.
Terry joined the YCL in 1959 and describes the political atmosphere of the period with racism and discrimination, the Mao- Mao uprising in Kenya and Mosleys interventions in local politics in North Kensington. He left the CPGB in 1964 after disputes with the CP stewards who were opposed to Trotskyism to which he was attracted. He outlines the reasons for his becoming involved with Trotskyist groups and became a journalist on The Newsletter as well as being politically involved in the London Docks. He was a member of the TGWU and then AEU. He was thrown out of Trotskyist groups but later re- joined in 1972. he describes the industrial disputes of the 1970s eg Saltley Gates and Grunwicks. He outlines issues of health and safety in this period and selling Trotskyist newspapers on the streets of west London. He also notes the role of music before Rock Against Racism in the 1970s. He was later a NALGO shop steward at City of London Poly.
In this clip he talks about being blacklisted and the difficulty of finding work.
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| language | English |
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| publishDate | 2013 |
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| title | Monaghan, Terry |
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