Revolution

"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 years of my life studying in Oxford.

You can say what you want about the French, but when it comes to civil insurrection they are without equal. , , , and – 50 years ago – 1968.

102 years ago today, while the Great War was burning the world down, a few hundred Irish men and women struck out for independence after 800 years of English rule.

170 years ago today, on Kennington Common in Lambeth, South London (now known as Kennington Park), 25,000 '' met to make their demands for democratic reforms including universal suffrage.

On 6th April 1320, thirty-nine Scottish nobles signed the – a letter to Pope John XXII calling him to support Scotland's claim to sovereignty against King Edward II of England. If you've seen Mel Gibson's Braveheart, you know the story.

The Cuban tradition of anticolonialism came late, but strong Lieutenant Maceo's cavalry charge during the Battle of Ceja del Negro Cuba was exceptional during the 1890s.

At a time when imperialism and racism were widely accepted, Cubans fashioned a different form of politics that was both anticolonial and egalitarian.