Fifty Years On From One Of The Greatest Political Speeches Ever Lessons Still Haven't Been Learnt
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Fifty Years On From One Of The Greatest Political Speeches Ever Lessons Still Haven't Been Learnt
On 15 May 1976, Tony Benn stood in Burford Church, Oxfordshire, to commemorate three men who had been executed 327 years earlier. Private Church, Corporal Perkins and Cornet Thompson were members of the Leveller movement, shot in 1649 after Oliver Cromwell crushed a mutiny within the New Model Army. What might have seemed a historical footnote became, in Benn’s hands, a powerful lesson about democracy, power and political participation. The spee…
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