The Newport Rising - an historic event in the class struggle
Channel: The Communist
Date: 2021-11-04

Today marks the anniversary of the Newport Rising, where at least 20 workers were killed in an attempted insurrection. 182 years later, their memory lives on, showing the true revolutionary history of the British working class.

These events are vividly discussed in Rob Sewell's book 'Chartist Revolution', available from Wellred Books: https://wellredbooks.net/chartist-revolution.html

"The Newport rising was over in a relatively short period of time, but this is in the nature of insurrections, which are normally not drawn-out affairs, but decided one way or the other very quickly. 

"The deliberate attempt to downplay the rising must not be allowed to minimise this truly historic event…The Newport rising must be seen as the first generalised insurrection of the new industrial proletariat. It certainly reflected the insurrectionary mood of the times, and not only in South Wales."

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