'Ehud's Dagger: Class Struggle and the English Revolution'

[whichfinder]

Date: Sunday, 3rd November at 3.00pm

Venue: SPGB premises, 52 Clapham High Street, London SW4 7UN

Directions: About 4 minutes walk south-east from Clapham North station on the Northern line of the London Underground system and 3 minutes walk from Clapham High Street station on the Circular Overground line.

The English Revolution is central to both the radical and revolutionary history of the English-speaking world, as well as the development of the British state, society, class structure and, indeed, capitalism itself. Against a Whiggish ideology that portrays it as just another step to the Utopia of a free-market liberal democracy, and also early, mechanistic Marxist-Leninist view of the (inevitable) replacement of the aristocracy by the bourgeoisie, this talk will put popular beliefs and struggles at the centre of events, from the end of the King's Personal Rule in 1640, through to the Restoration of 1660-1.


A talk by Rob Worden
Chair: Bill Martin

Free entry and refreshments
Audience participation invited

http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/event/class-struggle-english-revolution-clapham-300pm

[Ceallach_the_Witch]

aaaah I'd actually really like to go to this since this is basically what my dissertation is going to deal with, but it's a 7-hour round trip from where I live :(

[Blake's Baby]

Research is good. Go anyway, I'd say. Maybe do some other stuff while you're in London, to make it more justifiable.

[Baritz]

aaaah I'd actually really like to go to this since this is basically what my dissertation is going to deal with, but it's a 7-hour round trip from where I live :(


There's a good chance it will be recorded, then uploaded to the SPGB website... Watch this space :)

[Ceallach_the_Witch]

excellent, I was actually about to ask whether there'd be a podcast or something.

[whichfinder]

There's a good chance it will be recorded, then uploaded to the SPGB website... Watch this space :)

Rob Worden's recent talk on 'Class Struggle and the English Revolution' is now available to listen to/download at:

http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/audio/ehuds-dagger-class-struggle-and-english-revolution