Image 1831 The Jamaica Slave Rebellion A short account of the Baptist War, the revolt by Jamaican slaves in 1831 that forced the British Empire to abolish slavery within its borders in…
Image Grand National Holiday, and Congress of the Productive Classes: William Benbow Published in 1832 this pamphlet is possibly the earliest published advocacy for a general strike as…
The Chartist Grand National Holiday: The General Strike of 1839 An article by Past Tense on the first attempted general strike called by the Chartist movement for August 1839. It also compares the ideas of the strikes main proponent, William Benbow with other theorists on Mass and General Strikes.
Image 1831: the Merthyr Rising and Dic Penderyn An account of an brief uprising in South Wales in 1831 and the fate of Richard Lewis, known as Dic Penderyn. The uprising was the largest…
Image 1831: Merthyr Tydfil uprising In 1831, Merthyr Tydfil, iron workers struck against redundancies, rising prices and bailiffs, leading to several thousand workers involved in…
Image 1839-1846: The Anti-Renter movement Howard Zinn's short history of the Anti-Renter movement against the patroonship system, created in the 1660s when the Dutch ruled New York.
