Radical Stroud is a community-led initiative based in Stroud, Gloucestershire, which serves as a hub for exploring and promoting radical political ideas, environmental activism, and social justice. The website documents a range of local and global issues, hostings talks, events, and workshops focused on themes such as anti-capitalism, climate change, decolonization, and alternative economic models. It also archives historical activism in the Stroud area, connecting past struggles with contemporary movements.
The platform includes articles, event information, and resources that engage with grassroots organizing and participatory democracy. Radical Stroud emphasizes collective action and ecological sustainability within its efforts, fostering a space where activists, scholars, and community members can share knowledge and coordinate efforts. The content reflects an intersectional approach to social change, addressing interconnected issues in a regional context.
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A Swindon General Strike Walking Guide
Introduction This guide for a walk through the General Strike in Swindon will be half-way between a conventional guide for a walk (turn left then right for the bus station sort of thing) and a guide for a psychogeographical ramble. ‘What do you mean by...
Stroud General Strike Walking and Writing Guide
Introduction This guide for a walk through the General Strike in Stroud will be half-way between a conventional guide for a walk (turn left then right for the bus station sort of thing) and a guide for a psychogeographical ramble. ‘What do you mean by ...
A Jolly Dystopian Ramble to the Oasis
It felt like textbook psychogeography: Walking in a straight line along the old North Wilts Canal, In a ‘playful wandering exploration’, Reimagining the railway works and the seemingly endless sidings, Remembering where I used to train-spot and ...
Football and the General Strike 1926-2026
Stroud Park Walking Football Tournament for Stroud Food Bank Monday May 4 2026 Centenary Commemoration of the General Strike May 4th 1926 STRATFORD PARK MONDAY MAY 4th 2026 9.25 -11.25 A unique event happened towards the end of the strike. A football m...
The Forest of Dean and the General Strike and the GWR
I popped in the Centenary Lounge at Stroud Station Before catching the train to Gloucester for Lydney: I was on the scent of the industrial Dean In 1926 and the Great Western Railway, And, therefore, studied the GWR map From 1923 up there on the wall, ...
Plymouth Strikers v Police 1926
Plymouth Strikers v Police 1926 Imagine the scene if you are able: A procession of some 4,000 people, With union banners and a brass band (The day after the same number of people Battled with police when ‘volunteers’ Attempted to break the General Stri...
Stroud Park Walking Football Tournament and Stroud Food Bank
Stroud Park Walking Football Tournament and Stroud Food Bank May 4th The General Strike May 4th 1926 On May 4th 1926, twenty per cent of the workforce went on strike in a first wave of action called by the TUC in support of almost one million mi...
A Stroud Supermarket General Strike Centenary Ramble
It’s easy to forget that a walk around our local supermarkets Can take you back in a glance to the early twentieth century: Names like Coronation Road, King’s Road, Queen’s Road, With the red brick villas lining the streets: Their soot mixed with morta...
Beatrice Webb and the General Strike
Beatrice Webb’s May 1926 Diary (a small selection) The net impression left on my mind is that the General Strike will turn out not to be a revolution of any sort but a batch of compulsory Bank Holidays without any opportunity for recreation and a lot o...
The Bespectacled Historian and the Blue Plaques
The bespectacled historian has had a good idea. Stuart (for it is he) said, “Why don’t we have a train ride and a bus ride and a walk and conjoin the Rev Awdry blue plaques at Rodborough and Box?” Everyone said it was a great notion and so they made a ...
1825 STROUDWATER WEAVERS’ RIOTS BICENTENARY COMMEMORATION WALK
1825 STROUDWATER WEAVERS’ RIOTS BICENTENARY COMMEMORATION Saturday November 15th. Meet outside The Prince Albert at noon for a commemorative walk of some five or six miles maximum along the River Frome and the canal before climbing up towards Amb...
Rodborough Fields Ridge and Furrow
Rodborough Fields Ridge and Furrow When you walk down the footpath towards Kwik Fit, You can see a clear pattern of ridge and furrow (‘Like corrugated fields or waves in a land-sea’), Particularly on frosty midwinter days: A glimpse of a world before e...
Stations like Stroud (and Macbeth)
Stations like Stroud (and Macbeth) They’re great theatre, railway stations, don’t you think? The platform as the stage with Life and Existence itself in the limelight. For it’s almost as if a state of beatitude is attained whilst sitting on that plat...
View from a Carriage Window: Fields of Ridge and Furrow near Minety
View from a Carriage Window: Fields of Ridge and Furrow near Minety Gaze out of your window between Kemble and Swindon, Look left and right between Purton and Minety, And you will see a clear pattern of ridge and furrow (‘Like corrugated fields or wave...
Samuel Baker, Enslavement and the Railways
Gloucester Quays and Making the Connections Start your walk by Phillpott’s Warehouse – No plaque mentions that Thomas Phillpotts Benefitted from some seven hundred enslaved people, Nearly three hundred of whom were shared ‘investments’ With Samue...
Stroud to Swindon and Brunel all the Way
From Stroud to Swindon for a Football Match (Brunel All the Way) Start your journey at the Platform One Café, Coffee and croissants and Katie and Rick, 3 tables, 6 chairs, a trunk, 15 railway puzzles (Always one on the go for travellers with a brief en...
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But Is It Art?: The Spirit of Art as Activism
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