The Levellers and Irish History

[PRC-UTE]

http://irsm.org/history/levellers.html

[Vanguard1917]

Interesting article. People often forget the role played by the wider masses in the English Revolution - and indeed they forget the revolution itself. Like Trotsky says (cited in the article), 'the English workers should discover the English Revolution and should find in it, under its ecclesiastical garment, the powerful conflict of social forces.'

[Forward Union]

Originally posted by [email protected] 21, 2007 02:33 pm
Interesting article. People often forget the role played by the wider masses in the English Revolution - and indeed they forget the revolution itself. Like Trotsky says (cited in the article), 'the English workers should discover the English Revolution and should find in it, under its ecclesiastical garment, the powerful conflict of social forces.'
Trotsky was talking sense for once! The English Revolution certainly saw the birth of many radical anarchist and communist ideas.

Thanks for the link PRC, it was a good read.

[PRC-UTE]

It's a good docuoment, and important for someone like me to read. As it says, most associate the English Civil War with Cromwell and his ethnic clensing as I grew up knowing, missing the revolutionary working class tradition that emerged then.

I think it was AK press that reproduced a Leveller pamphlet, originally distributed by soldiers in Cromwell's army that argued against the subjugation of Ireland.