English Civil War

English Civil War

• Restoration Tragedy review - an experimental encounter between early music, punk and politics

  

  This celebration of 'the world turned upside down' is a perfect blend of folk, punk, and English radical history, writes John Rees

• The hidden spaces of struggle

  

  Space and place in the cityscape are battlegrounds, and we have to fight to hold them, argues Chris Bambery

• The Leveller Revolution: John Rees on the Jeremy Vine show

  

  Listen to John Rees dicussing his new book on The Levellers, on the Jeremy Vine show

• Ten reasons why the story of Magna Carta is about rebellion

  

  Unfortunately for David Cameron, the real lesson of the Magna Carta story is that only a determined mass movement can win political and social equality

• John Lilburne: free-born 400 years ago…and still the man of the hour

  

  Saturday 14 March sees the Lilburne 400 conference in London. The Leveller leader should be remembered for many reasons, not least his commitment to building revolutionary organisation, says John Rees