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“Things cannot go well in England, until everything shall be in common, when there shall be neither vassal nor lord & all distinctions levelled; when the lords shall be no more masters than ourselves.”

John Ball, one of the leaders of the Peasants’ Revolt which began #OTD 1381.

H. Laski: "We, too, have been influenced by the authors of the [Communist] Manifesto."

C. Attlee: “The number of those who have entered the [British] Socialist movement as the direct result of his teaching has been but a fraction of the whole.”

Karl Marx was born #OTD 1818.

#OnThisDay 1797, during the French Revolutionary Wars, sailors on 16 Royal Navy ships anchored at Spithead staged a mutiny in pursuit of better pay and conditions. The mutineers eventually negotiated an agreement that saw a Royal pardon for all crews and a pay rise for sailors.

“We raise the watch-word liberty;
We will, we will, we will be free!”

The Tolpuddle Martyrs, a group of Dorset rural labourers who were arrested for swearing a secret oath as members of a friendly society, were sentenced to penal transportation to Australia #OnThisDay 1834.

The Treason Act, which made it high treason to assassinate the Prince Regent, gained Royal Assent #OnThisDay 1817. The Act was one of two 'Gagging Acts' which banned meetings of over 50 people and instructed magistrates to arrest anyone suspected of spreading seditious libel.

“You may call the people a mob, but do not forget that a mob too often speaks the sentiments of the people.”

#OnThisDay 1812, poet Lord Byron defended Luddite violence in his first address as a member of the House of Lords. Read the full speech here: https://t.co/wrNpkyB1a6…

“The law locks up the man or woman
Who steals the goose off the common
But leaves the greater villain loose
Who steals the common from the goose
The law demands that we atone
When we take things we do not own
But leaves the lords+ladies fine
Who takes things that are yours+mine.”

“I can fight as well as any man.”

Felicia Mary Browne, English artist and communist, was killed in action near Tardienta, Spain #OnThisDay 1936 while attempting to dynamite a Nationalist munitions train. Browne was the first British volunteer to die in the Spanish Civil War.

“When the pinch comes the common people will turn out to be more intelligent than the clever ones. I certainly hope so.”

George Orwell, 1940.