In September, 1974, a large number of lesbian and gay demonstrators entered the British Medical Association's Congress on Psycho-sexual Problems in Bradford, Yorkshire, United Kingdom. The demonstrators demanded a discussion on why the medical profession viewed lesbians and gay men negatively and why 'aversion therapy' in the form of electric shocks was still used to attempt to make lesbians and gay men heterosexual. Pictured is c a key leader of the demonstrators (right) discussing the demonstration with one of the organisers of the conference.
The conference was held at at the University of Bradford, Yorkshire, England, These images were taken on film by Terry Waller, in 1974 and he digitised them in 2022. Don Milligan is the author of The Embrace of Capital: Capitalism from the Inside, Publisher : Zero Books (29 April 2022). The publisher's blurb reads: 'The "spectre of communism" which Karl Marx confidently evoked in 1848 is now nothing more than a ghostly and ghastly nightmare, without form or substance. This is because working people have developed a love-hate relationship with capitalism. They hate insecurity, inequality, and greed, and love civic and political freedom. They love mass consumption, and accept the logic of commerce. Barreling along through wars, revolutions, epidemics, and crises of all sorts, working people in their millions have consistently dumfounded and dismayed the left, by their refusal to countenance any alternative to the capitalist mode of life. We have to ask: Is it possible to reverse this reality, and once again talk of the necessity of communism?'. The reviews on Amazon read: ''Genuinely thought provoking and provocative. A much-needed takedown of what Orwell once called the ‘smelly little orthodoxies’ of the left, and why they are so distant and alienated from the working class they claim to fight for.' --Ralph Leonard 'So refreshing, and joyously subversive, to read a communist's analysis of why communism is so terribly unappetizing.' --Yanis Varoufakis --This text refers to the paperback edition.' Don Milligan also wrote:the pamphlet 'The Politics of Homosexuality' Pluto Press, London, 1975, pp. 19. A 'Brief survey, which raises issue of how homosexuality should be addressed in the socialist movement.'
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