News from Nowhere

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News from Nowhere

• How the change came
• historical and
• contemporary inspiration

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How the change came...

• Bloody Sunday etc.
• Dual power
• - The British experience since the Middle Ages
• 1381, 1640s, 1688, Chartism
• - The French experience of the Paris Commune
• Trade unionism
• General Strike
• Socialists and their papers

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Bloody Sunday etc.
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Dual power

• The British Experience
• - 1381
• - 1640s
• - 1688
• - Chartism

• The French Experience of the Paris Commune
• - Preparations
• - Committees
• - The Siege and food
• - National Guard and Insurrection

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The French Experienceof the Paris Commune

• Preparations calling witnesses to the bar...
• Committees wider and wider
• The Siege and food
• National Guard and Insurrection

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