As part of my English revolution reading, prompted by Arden’s Left Handed Liberty, I took a look at Magna Carta itself, what did it codify/concede? How relevant is it today? Here are my notes. …
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Internationale
I find it hard to believe, but I have not yet posted my soundtrack of the Internationale which I use as a ring tone to this wiki. Well, here it is! For more see also ringtones and revolution, which talks about the film and Finland Station and explains the featured image.
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When did Capitalism start?
I have been doing some reading recently on what I considered pre-capitalist history much of which I tried to put in a class struggle context, basically about the coming of the bourgeoisie. I always felt that Capitalism came into being at the end of the 17th century but others challanged this and since I can…
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Early (English) revolutionary spirit
I am playing a game of inverse “would I lie to you” each weekend. We don’t have so many rules as the TV shows; I was considering doing one on English Revolts, but decided not to; but made some interesting discoveries, which for me reinforces the need for a debate on English History teaching. I…
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The Levellers
The Leveller’s and the mutinies. Curious as to whether there’s a battle to propose to Class Wargames, as a result of further thinking beyond my comments here.. It seems there was. Here are my notes which focus more on the politics now, rather than the military actions.
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Class War 1939-1945
I was pointed at this review of, Chris Bambery’s book The Second World War: A Marxist History (2014) which takes a different from normal view of the politics of the second world war; the story where the people’s of the last democracies in Europe united with the United States to fight its fascist blight. This…
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Class Wargames & the ECW
I have been/am still reading Richard Barbrook’s book, “Class Wargames”. Among its many fascinating themes is his study of the collapse of democratic military forces into dictatorship.He name checks Napoleon, Toussaint Louverture & the Russian Revolution. I wonder why he didn’t start earlier with the English Civil War, it would seem to me to be…
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Introduction This is a suspended/abandoned project. Harold Wilson Harold Wilson (Wikipedia) Harold Wilson’s Guardian Obituary Harold Wilson’s No 10 .gov page Neil Kinnock Neil Kinnock (Wikipedia) Niel Kinnock’s wikiquote page Google Neil Kinnock at the bbc Tony Blair Tony Blair (Wikipedia) his own words, a youtube video Links British Library Microforms index, includes a collection…
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