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During the 1607 uprising in Rockingham Forest more than fifty people defending common right were massacred. The commotion of forest commoners was a major step in the history of class struggle in England. New kinds of writing arose describing the class struggle, such as the seditious writing wrapped around a ball of wax (“living the poor doth want and living they shall have”) and thrown into a church choir, or such as Shakespeare’s treatment of the hard-hearted ruler faced with a starving populace in his Roman play Coriolanus (1608).
Peter Linebaugh, The Magna Carta Manifesto: Liberty and Commons for All (via howtotalktogirlsdialectically) -
Jubilee - not just about the Queen, you know
Peter Linebaugh - Jubilee: Or, How The Atlantic Working Class Used the Biblical Jubilee Against Capitalism, With Some Success
http://www.midnightnotes.org/pdfnewenc12.pdf
Linebaugh criss-crosses centuries and the Atlantic to talk about pre-Christian property law, imperialism, slavery, civil disobedience, religious practice, autodidactism, the commons, communism, commoning, pamphleteering, pan-Africanism and singing - lots and lots of singing.
thinking about crises, cities, poetry, agitprop, architecture.
Stuff here is mainly interesting things I've seen and read, interspersed with poems and pictures by me and others.
