Labnet: Robert Tressell plaque to be unveiled on Sunday 3 February inLiverpool

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From: Bernadette & Michael [mailto:mossley at phonecoop.coop]
Blue Plaque to be unveiled to the author of  "The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists" 
Liverpool Trades Union Council will be unveiling a blue plaque dedicated to Robert Tressell at The Old Royal Liverpool Infirmary (Brownlow Practice, opposite Dental Hospital), Pembroke Place, Liverpool at 10.30 am on Sunday 3rd February 2008. The author died of phthisis pulmonalis (tuberculosis) in the hospital in 1911.
 
The unveiling ceremony will be conducted by Mr Reg Johnson, the last surviving member of the famous author's family, together with Mr. Stephen Nederlof an Apprentice Painter & Decorator employed by Mersey Tunnels and Ms. Eileen Gorry of Blackburne House, Construction Section Training Department. A reception will be held at 12.00.noon in the Casa Club, Hope Street after the event. Transport to the reception will be by courtesy coach.
 
Reg Johnson will be available at an informal reception at the Casa Club on Saturday 2nd February from 7.30pm to sign copies of the book brought to him by well wishers. A small number of  books will also be available for sale.
 
All are welcome to the events. Surplus funds will go towards providing a signed hard back copy of "The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists" to any Merseyside school that wishes to have a copy.
  
Contact John Flanagan of  Liverpool Trades Council,  on mobile 0779 101 9641 for further information.
  
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists  has so far been published at least 137 times - UK (105), Russia (6), Germany (6), Canada (3), Australia (3), USA (3), Czechoslovakia (3), Poland (2), Holland (1), Belgium (1), Bulgaria (1), Japan (1), Turkey (1), Unidentified (1) - and possibly others elsewhere. 
 
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists  has sold at least 1,100,000 copies worldwide and may well have sold twice or even three times that number. 
 
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists  is clear, straightforward and eminently readable; it has humour, parody, pathos, irony, rage, little victories, defeats, arguments and ideas, and it is brim full of hatred and contempt for the capitalist 'System', the ruling class and their hangers-on. 
 
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists  is about hope. It is about Socialist values and their continued relevance when we are being told that capitalism is here forever. That greed is good, that war, famine, poverty, racism and every form of oppression are natural, normal and permanent features of life on Planet Earth. 
 
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