Cotters and squatters: housing's hidden history
Submitted by Anonymous on Sep 19 2017 10:36
Colin Ward's Cotters and Squatters explores the story of squatter settlement in England and Wales: from our cave-dwelling recent ancestors to the Diggers and on the industrial revolution; and from twentieth-century mass squatting to modern claims that The Land is Ours.
The Working Class Movement in England: Eleanor Marx
An account of the growth of the Working Class movement in England and the United Kingdom, from the middle ages to the 1890's.
The law of freedom in a platform - Gerrard Winstanley
Set out in 1652, this is Winstanley's vision for a future without money or such extreme laws of private property as we have today. Winstanley was aware that the English Civil War meant a consolidation of power for the Merchant Classes and Landowners and he - quite rightly - predicted the misery and corruption to come.
Levellers, True Levellers, and the Diggers of 1649
An incomplete dramatisation of the founding of the True Levellers or the "Diggers" and their first agrarian commune.
A true account of the New Model Army - Paul Z. Simons
An account of the New Model Army and its links with the Revolutionary movements unleashed by the English Civil War.
Wigan celebrates its radical communist heritage
Submitted by thegonzokid on Sep 9 2012 08:27
Several hundred people converged on the centre of the lovely town of Wigan to celebrate the life of local radical Gerrard Winstanley (1609-1676) and the Diggers' (True Leveller) Movement that he played a central role in establishing.
A shadow of glorious (though strange) good things to come: The Ranters and libertarian communism in the English civil war
Submitted by Farce on May 7 2010 10:22
An examination of the Ranters, one of the most radical groups to emerge during the English Civil War. Taken from issue 74 of Organise!, the Anarchist Federation's magazine.
1642-1652: The Diggers and the Levellers
Submitted by Steven. on Sep 12 2006 11:29
A history of the radical movements the Diggers and the Levellers which sprung up around the English Civil War.
A Declaration From the Poor Oppressed People of England
Submitted by Nemo on Sep 8 2006 08:58
A declaration from the poor oppressed people of England, directed to all those that call themselves, or are called Lords of Manors, through this nation; That have begun to cut, or that through fear and covetousness, do intend to cut down the Woods and Trees that grow upon the Commons and Waste Land.
Printed in the Yeer, 1649.
The Diggers - Lewis H. Berens
Chapter IV from The Digger Movement In The Days Of The Commonwealth, by Lewis H. Berens.
