#GerrardWinstanley and 30+ other #Diggers occupied #StGeorgesHill on #ThisDayInHistory in 1649 and began working the land collectively in an early form of agrarian #anarchocommunism. Their #DirectAction inspired others to join them and the movement grew until forcibly suppressed.

#GerrardWinstanley was on the level ...

Wigan Diggers Festival at the weekend - great blend of music, politics, camaraderie and booze as always - and a welcome antidote to the fascist filth going on elsewhere. #wigandiggers #wigan #gerrardwinstanley

On #ThisDayInHistory in 1676, the #TrueLeveller/#Digger ideologue #GerrardWinstanley died. He opposed the growth of #enclosures to cut people off from free land in the #EnglishCivilWar. Diggers broke these open to grow food, and this challenge to #capital power had to be stopped.

10th September 1676 – the Death of Gerrard Winstanley On this day in 1676, the most Visionary and Prophetic reformer of the entire English Civil War period died at the age of sixty-seven. Thrust into the revolutionary times surrounding Oliver Cromwell’s ...

#OTD 1676 the death of #GerrardWinstanley www.onthisdeity.com/10th-septemb...

What I think of when people talk about embracing tradition-
#history
#17thcentury
#politics
#levellers
#diggers
#GerrardWinstanley