‘The Levellers and the Diggers’
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Saturday 13 February 1pm at the Red Shed, Vicarage Street, Wakefield WF1 1QX
Directions: About 12 minutes walk from Wakefield Kirkgate rail station
Organised by Wakefield Socialist History Group
All welcome.. free admission…
https://www.facebook.com/events/1786291094931772/Unfortunately the party will not now be represented on this forum.
jondwhite wrote:I might go to be part of the audience.Good. There'll be a forum two weeks later at the same venue on William Morris; the party will be represented on this occasion.http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/event/william-morris-revolutionary-socialist-or-utopian-dreamer-wakefield-1pm
If you do go it might be worth making a few copies of this article from the June 1995 Socialist Standard:http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/socialist-standard/1990s/1995/no-1090-june-1995/levellers-or-diggersIn fact, if no one is going perhaps we could send them some copies to distribute.
ALB wrote:If you do go it might be worth making a few copies of this article from the June 1995 Socialist Standard:http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/socialist-standard/1990s/1995/no-1090-june-1995/levellers-or-diggersIn fact, if no one is going perhaps we could send them some copies to distribute.Yes, and other literature besides… Before our representative dropped out of the forum we were offered a table on which to display our literature; I've no reason to suppose that the offer has been withdrawn.
ALB wrote:Don't we have a Yorkshire branch.Well of course we do and as it happens meets this coming Sunday (31 January) in Leeds.http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/event/yorkshire-regional-branch-leeds-1pm-1Moreover, one of its members is on the Campaigns Committee.
This piece from the organiser of the Wakefield forums and our comrade's response:
Alan Stewart wrote:ComradesForwarding links (on Eleanor Marx and John Maclean) sent by Paul Bennett, a member of the Socialist Party of Great Britain, who spoke at our recent meeting on the EU: How Should Socialists Vote in the Referendum?Our next meeting is a week on Saturday -13 February- on THE LEVELLERS AND THE DIGGERS, 1pm onwards at the Red Shed (Wakefield Labour Club), Vicarage Street, Wakefield WF1.Paul B wrote:Thanks for the bulletins from the Wakefield Socialist History Group.I reviewed Rachel Homes' biography of Eleanor Marx last year: http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/socialist-standard/2010s/2015/no-1332-august-2015/book-reviews-global-minotaur-capitalism%E2%80%99s-crises-d(and scroll down) You'll probably not be surprised to learn that we weren't so keen on John Maclean, as in this piece from 1925: http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/socialist-standard/1920s/1925/no-254-october-1925/confusion-scotland I intend to be at the William Morris meeting on 27th.http://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1092/letters/A wee plug for it there as well, never knew Lilburne was a Mackem. Gone right off him now.
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