A short history on the influence of William Cuffay, a black tailor, and Irish Catholic workers in the Chartist movement and how the British ruling class used racism to divide an increasingly ...
An article by Past Tense on the first attempted general strike called by the Chartist movement for August 1839. It also compares the ideas of the strikes main proponent, William Benbow with other ...
This is the second part of a two-part article. The first part was posted on November 4. There had been talk of a “sacred month,” effectively a general strike, throughout August 1839. There was some ...
A researcher at The University of Manchester has found the Labour Movement of old was more cultured than its modern-day counterpart. Dr Michael Sanders from the School of Arts, Histories and Cultures ...
A tiny 165-year-old pamphlet identified by a University of Manchester academic as the only surviving copy of a Chartist hymn book has been transformed into a CD by a veteran protest singer. After ...
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The suicide of Tamara Jade Logon after her disability benefits were wrongly withdrawn is the latest in a series of deaths in which coroners have cited DWP failings, exposing a pattern of preventable ...
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The following is the first of two-part article. The second part will be posted November 5. On November 4, 1839, several thousand Chartists, carrying arms, marched into Newport, Wales. They surrounded ...
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