IMGpapers 1980–83

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1980–83

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Socialist Challenge No. 204, 2 July 1981 · p. 11 of the scan · 315 words

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page 11 of the scan

Having his head chopped off demands. These 'Required that henceforth no man should be a sert nor make nomage or anv Of service to any lord, but give four pence for an acre of land.

'They asked also that one should serve any man except at his own will and meurs of reguiar covenan Rebels To buy time the King agreed to the demands and the rebels, this time by Wat Tyler, celebrated by seizing the Archbishop of Canterbury and beheading him Encouraged his success, Tyler went back to see the King the following day and present a more radical set of demands. Clamour He and others "began to clamour for liberty, planning to by become equals of But this time the King and his advisers were ready for He was grabbed and had his head cut off.

And that was the effective end of the rebellion. The marchers broke Some returned home, thinking the first series of by would De mel as agreca, olners fled after the death of Tyler.

As is usual with unsuccessful revolutions, the ruling class tried to ensure that the revolt would never be Repression was the order of the day: "The time came for the King to punish the delinquents. Lord their lords. Robert Tresilion was therefore sent by the King's command to Tyler. investigate and punish had risen peace. 'He was active everywhere and spared no one, so causing a in saisarrav great slaughter. He condemned some to beheading, some to demands hanging, through the cities, and some to disembowelling, before them were still alive, repeated. Trust of 1381. those have been different? against his recognise that when it came to the peasants versus the lords his interests lay with the latter. "torcing' workers to come out on strike, or 'terrorists' are accused of all manner of horrors they never committed Even after the revolt was

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