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Robert Tressell's great novel was a battle cry against a capitalist system based on exploitation and inequality Today marks 110 years since Robert Tressell's The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropis … read more

In eighteenth century Jamaica, Queen Nanny led liberated slaves in a guerrilla war against the British Empire Resistance can take many forms. In eighteenth-century Jamaica, for enslaved Africa … read more

Pasquale Paoli isn't a household name, but he was one of the greatest revolutionaries in European history Long before he became a famous general and declared himself Emperor of France, Napoleo … read more

Robert Frost may not have been a radical person, but his poetry is nevertheless part of radical history "I’d like to get away from earth awhile And then come back to it and begin over." … read more

A shopworker from Somerset was radicalised to join a Labour governmentMargaret Bondfield in 1919 "I had no vocation for wifehood or motherhood, but an urge to serve the Union." Margaret ‘Maggie … read more