PugJesusCampism means never telling the proletariat you're sorry 😊
Liam O'Mara IV, PhDOn 14 June 1381, #WatTyler and an army of peasants seized the Tower of London, the only time it fell. King Richard II agreed to parley, pledging to end #serfdom. On #ThisDayInHistory Tyler met the king and was instead executed and 1500 rebels were hanged. Do not trust the state.
On #ThisDayInHistory in 1381, the #PeasantsRevolt under #WatTyler began. It opposed high taxes for war and leveraged labour shortages caused by #BlackDeath. It was crushed by a lying king, though helped end #serfdom. #Capitalism's birth served to maintain structural inequalities.
MikeDunnAuthorToday in Labor History May 30, 1381: Tax collector John Bampton sparked the Peasants’ Revolt in Brentwood, Essex. The mass uprising, also known as Wat Tyler’s Rebellion, or the Great Rising, began because of attempts to collect a poll tax. However, tensions were already high because of the economic misery and hunger caused by the Black Death pandemic of the 1340s, and the Hundred Years’ War. During the uprising, rebels burned public records and freed prisoners. King Richard II, 14 years old, hid in the Tower of London. Rebels entered the Tower and killed the Lord Chancellor and the Lord High Treasurer, but not the king. It took nearly six months for the authorities to suppress the Peasants’ Revolt. They slaughtered over 1,400 rebels. Roughly 600 years later, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher tried again to impose a poll tax on Britain’s working class. It also sparked a revolt which brought an end both to the tax and Thatcher’s regime. Billy Bragg references Thatcher’s poll tax in his song, All You Fascists.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #peasant #revolt #rebellion #polltax #thatcher #wattyler #pandemic #plague #massacre #execution #billybragg #fascism
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It didn't have to succeed.
Just not be taken over.
So what sort of history have you learnt?
Freedom PressWat Tyler’s head was spiked and displayed as a warning upon London Bridge on June 15, 1381. In this literary essay, an anonymous author affiliated with the Kurdistan freedom movement reflects on that rebellion and its significance today.
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/06/15/remembering-wat-tyler-stakes-are-head-high/https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/06/15/remembering-wat-tyler-stakes-are-head-high/ #medieval #histodon #anarchism #WatTyler #kurdistan
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/06/15/remembering-wat-tyler-stakes-are-head-high/https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/06/15/remembering-wat-tyler-stakes-are-head-high/ #medieval #histodon #anarchism #WatTyler #kurdistan
Today in Labor History May 30, 1381: Tax collector John Bampton sparked the Peasants’ Revolt in Brentwood, Essex. The mass uprising, also known as Wat Tyler’s Rebellion, or the Great Rising, began because of attempts to collect a poll tax. However, tensions were already high because of the economic misery and hunger caused by the Black Death pandemic of the 1340s, and the Hundred Years’ War. During the uprising, rebels burned public records and freed prisoners. King Richard II, 14 years old, hid in the Tower of London. Rebels entered the Tower and killed the Lord Chancellor and the Lord High Treasurer, but not the king. It took nearly six months for the authorities to suppress the Peasants’ Revolt. They slaughtered over 1,400 rebels. Roughly 600 years later, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher tried again to impose a poll tax on Britain’s working class. It also sparked a revolt which brought an end both to the tax and Thatcher’s regime. Billy Bragg references Thatcher’s poll tax in his song, All You Fascists.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #peasant #revolt #rebellion #polltax #thatcher #wattyler #pandemic #plague #massacre #execution #billybragg #fascism