The law of freedom in a platform - Gerrard Winstanley
Set out in 1652, this is Winstanley's vision for a future without money or such extreme laws of private property as we have today. Winstanley was aware that the English Civil War meant a consolidation of power for the Merchant Classes and Landowners and he - quite rightly - predicted the misery and corruption to come.
Levellers, True Levellers, and the Diggers of 1649
An incomplete dramatisation of the founding of the True Levellers or the "Diggers" and their first agrarian commune.
Wigan celebrates its radical communist heritage
Submitted by thegonzokid on Sep 9 2012 08:27
Several hundred people converged on the centre of the lovely town of Wigan to celebrate the life of local radical Gerrard Winstanley (1609-1676) and the Diggers' (True Leveller) Movement that he played a central role in establishing.
