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Muhammad Ali's Anti-War Defiance

Posted by Pete on 3rd Jun 2018

Muhammad Ali – 'The Greatest' – died today in 2016. He suffered septic shock while hospitalised in Scottsdale, Arizona. But he could have died 49 years earlier somewhere in Vietnam. On th … read more

The Levellers: Radicals Before Their Time

Posted by Pete on 17th May 2018

"To the Memory of Private Biggs and Private Piggen. Executed like their Leveller Colleagues at Burford by Forces Loyal to Cromwell." - Plaque at Gloucester Green, Oxford I spent three yea … read more

Enraged Students: The May 1968 Protests in France

Posted by Pete on 14th May 2018

You can say what you want about the French, but when it comes to civil insurrection they are without equal. 1789, 1830, 1871, and – 50 years ago – 1968.New William Morris design: Liberty, Equal … read more

Marx: Drunken Student with Unkempt Hair

Posted by Pete on 5th May 2018

After months of shoehorning dubiously relevant Karl Marx references into every email I can, I get to write you one about the man himself – today is his 200th Birthday, after all! Here's our Kar … read more