May 25, 2012 Length:68 words

1839: The Chartist Insurrection from International Marxist-Humanist on Vimeo.

This short video (8.34 mins) was made and uploaded to accompany the new book, 1839: The Chartist Insurrection by David Black and Chris Ford (Unkant Publishing, London 2012), which tells the story of the birth of the Chartist movement, and the chain of events which brought Britain closer to Revolution than any time since the English Civil War, or any time since – Editors.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Chris Ford

Chris Ford is a British trade unionist involved in solidarity work with the independent workers movement in Poland and Ukraine, and the coauthor of 1839: The Chartist Insurrection.
David Black

David Black is the author of Helen Macfarlane: A Feminist, Revolutionary Journalist and Philosopher in Mid-Nineteenth Century England, of The Philosophical Roots of Anti-Capitalism: Essays on History, Culture and Dialectical Thought, and the coauthor of 1839: The Chartist Insurrection.