If you’ve ever wanted to eat your lunch inside a pair of mating insects, this is the Grasshopper Cafe, South Korea.
New Wave Xmas: Just Can’t Get Enough
Rhino Records
1 Thanks For Christmas - The Three Wise Men (aka XTC)
2 Christmas Day - Squeeze
3 Fairytale Of New York - The Pogues Featuring Kirsty MacColl
4 Rudolph The Manic Reindeer - Los Lobos
5 2000 Miles - The Pretenders
6 Santa Claus - Throwing Muses
7 Little Drummer Boy - Miracle Legion
8 Xmas At K-Mart - Root Boy Slim And The Sex Change Band With The Rootettes
9 Peace On Earth/Little Drummer Boy - David Bowie And Bing Crosby
10 One Christmas Catalogue - Captain Sensible
11 All I Want For Christmas - Timbuk 3
12 Shouldn’t Have Given Him A Gun For Christmas - Wall Of Voodoo
13 Santa’s Beard - They Might Be Giants
14 Christmas - The Buzz Of Delight (Featuring Matthew Sweet)
15 Christmas Time - Chris Stamey Group
16 Mary Xmess - Sun 60
17 Careless Santa - Mono Puff
On this day, 1 December 1921, striking workers at Castleconnell fisheries in Ireland occupied their workplace and declared a soviet (workers council). The following day at a Dáil cabinet meeting, labour minister Constance Markiewicz was instructed to contact the Irish Transport and General Workers’ Union (ITGWU) and inform them that the soviet would be suppressed by the Irish Republican Army. Police and volunteers were also to be used to evict the strikers. However it appears this did not transpire, and the workers eventually vacated the premises voluntarily on December 22 after the boss agreed to arbitration, which later ruled in favour of the workers.
Pictured: a soviet at Bruree Creamery, 1921 https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/2149224838595988/?type=3
