{"id":1912,"date":"2011-02-16T19:10:10","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T19:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/?p=1912"},"modified":"2021-03-05T11:20:02","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T11:20:02","slug":"charlie-rees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/2011\/02\/16\/charlie-rees\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Rees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have recently heard of the passing of Charlie Rees. Charlie was a member of the <acronym title=\"Republican Communist Network\">RCN<\/acronym> and <acronym title=\"Scottish Socialist Party\">SSP<\/acronym> when he lived in Scotland with Deidre McCartan, also a member of the <acronym title=\"Republican Communist Network\">RCN<\/acronym> and <acronym title=\"Scottish Socialist Party\">SSP<\/acronym>, before moving to England,<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1913\" title=\"Charlie Rees\" src=\"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/charlie-1a-260x300.jpg\" alt=\"Charlie Rees out campaigning for the SSP\" width=\"260\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/charlie-1a-260x300.jpg 260w, http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/charlie-1a-887x1024.jpg 887w, http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/charlie-1a.jpg 976w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What follows is a short poem he wrote when moving from his home in Dunure, Scotland to northern England<\/p>\n<p>March 18th 2001<\/p>\n<p>Comrades, friends, mates, pals<br \/>\nNone of these words describe the way I feel<br \/>\nA bond between us all<\/p>\n<p>They are my left hand<\/p>\n<p>Pure chance we met, just taking any seat<br \/>\nA trick of fate<br \/>\nA show of hands and there we were<\/p>\n<p>I bled today<br \/>\nI cut off my left hand<\/p>\n<p>Charlie Rees<\/p>\n<p>_______<\/p>\n<p>also see:-<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/2009\/03\/20\/deirdre-mccartin-1944-2009\/\">Deirdre McCartin, 1944 \u2013 2009<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have recently heard of the passing of Charlie Rees. Charlie was a member of the RCN and SSP when he lived in Scotland with Deidre McCartan, also a member of the RCN and SSP, before moving to England, What follows is a short poem he wrote when moving from his home in Dunure, Scotland&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1864],"tags":[264],"class_list":["post-1912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-our-history","tag-author-rcn"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"views":4353,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1912"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18166,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912\/revisions\/18166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}