El 1 de mayo es un momento de afirmación, de amor a la vida y de llegada de la primavera, así que ha de ser algo así como el principio del fin del sistema capitalista de explotación, opresión, guerra y miseria generaliza...
Inglaterra, 1217. Enrique, hijo del rey Juan sin tierra, ratifica la Carta Magna y la Carta del Bosque. La primera establece libertades: quedan prohibidas las detenciones arbitrarias (habeas corpus) y las torturas; los juicios seguirán el debido...
On February 21, 1803, Colonel Edward (Ned) Marcus Despard was publicly hanged and decapitated in London before a crowd of 20,000 for organizing a revolutionary conspiracy to overthrow King George III. His Black Caribbean wife, Catherine (Kate), helped...
"As Ned Ludd is the mythic symbol of Luddite resistance to unwelcome industrialisation in England, so Queen Mab, through her personification in Shelley's poem of that name composed in 1812, becomes the symbol of a radical critique of western civilisation...
In the popular imagination, informed as it is by Hogarth, Swift, Defoe and Fielding, the eighteenth-century underworld is a place of bawdy knockabout, rife with colourful eccentrics. But the artistic portrayals we have only hint at the dark reality. In...
This remarkable book shines a fierce light on the current state of liberty and shows how longstanding restraints against tyrannyâand the rights of habeas corpus, trial by jury, and due process of law, and the prohibition of tortureâ...
Peter Linebaughâs groundbreaking history has become an inescapable part of any understanding of the rise of capitalism. In eighteenth-century London the spectacle of a hanging was not simply a form of punishing transgressors.