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- Ancestors of the Proletariat
Tercentenary of the English Revolution: 1649-1949
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1949
After Charles I had been executed, the Levellers aimed directly at the overthrow of the military government of Cromwell in the name of the people. The great political act of the abolition of the monarchy, dramatized in the execution of the King, was in their eyes entirely subordinate to the positive reorganization of society.
- Britain # Its contribution to Socialism, Marxism and Workers# Organisation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Links to writings from the history of the British Isles, relevant to the development of socialist ideas and Marxism.
- Chartism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A movement for political and social reform in the United Kingdom during the mid-19th century between 1838 and 1850 which takes its name from the People's Charter of 1838.
- The Condition of the Working Class in England
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1845
- Cromwell and the Levellers
Tercentenary of English Revolution: 1649-1949
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1949
Levelers were a loose organisation of kindred political thinkers who from stage to stage expressed the rapidly developing political consciousness of a great social and political mass movement.
- Decline of the English Murder
And Other Essays
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1981
A collection of essays by George Orwell.
- Diggers
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
An English group of agrarian communists in the 17th century.
- The End of Parliamentary Socialism
From New Left to New Labour
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
Argues against the assertion that there is no alternative to neo-liberalism. This account of the British Labour Party's recent history argues that Tony Blair's modernizing tendency was profoundly mistaken in asserting that the only alternative to traditional social democracy and narrow parliamentarianism was an acceptance of neo-liberalism.
- Engels, Manchester and the Working Class
Resource Type: Book
- The English Revolution
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The period of the English Civil Wars and Commonwealth period 1640-1660, in which Parliament challenged King Charles I's authority, engaged in civil conflict against his forces, and executed him in 1649.
- General Strike of 1842
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The strike started among the Staffordshire miners and soon spread through the country affecting factories, mills and coal mines from Dundee to South Wales and Cornwall.
- George Orwell: A Life
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1980
A biography of George Orwell.
- The Great Transformation
The political and economic origins of our time
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1968
- Hegemony or Survival
America's Quest for Global Dominance
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2004
- Hidden Agendas
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1998
Pilger's book is an indictment of Tony Blair's government and his easy acceptance of the Thacherite view of foreign affairs. Using the examples of Indonesia, East Timor, Burma, Murdoch and China he chronicles the scale and intensity of injustice around the world.
- Hill, Christopher
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
English Marxist historian and author. (1912-2003).
- Inclosure Acts
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A series of United Kingdom Acts of Parliament which enclosed open fields and common land in the country. This meant that the rights that people once held to graze animals on these areas were denied.
- Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
Volume I: State and Bureaucracy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1977
A wide-ranging and thorough exposition of Marx's views on democracy.
- The Life of Bertrand Russell
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1975
A biography of the political activist, philosopher and mathematician.
- Lilburne, John
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
English political agitator before, during and after English Civil Wars 1642-1650. (1614-1657).
- Luddites
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A social movement of British textile artisans in the early nineteenth century who protested # often by destroying mechanized looms # against the changes produced by the Industrial Revolution, which were leaving them without work.
- The Magna Carta
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1215
The Magna Carta consists of concessions wrung from the unwilling King John by his rebellious barons in 1215. It established for the first time a very significant constitutional principle: that the power of the king could be limited by a written grant.
- Midland Revolt
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A popular uprising which took place in the Midlands of England in 1607.
- The People's Charter
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1839
The Chartists' Peoples Charter of 1839.
- A People's History of the World
From the Stone Age to the New Millennium
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative or ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.
- The People's Petition
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1838
The Chartist Petition of 1838.
- The Road to Wigan Pier
Resource Type: Book
George Orwell's investigation of an English working class community in the 1930s.
- Scargill, Arthur
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
British trade unionist and political party leader. (Born 1938).
- Studies in the Development of Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1968
- United Kingdom general strike of 1926
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The 1926 General Strike in the United Kingdom was a general strike called by the General Council of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in an unsuccessful attempt to force the government to act to prevent wage reduction and worsening conditions for coal miners.
- Winter of Discontent
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A term used to describe the British winter of 1978#1979, during which there were widespread strikes by local authority trade unions demanding larger pay raises for their members.
- Working Class Communism
A Review of the Literature
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1971
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