A3 (297 x 420 mm) Riso Print on Uncoated Paper (100gsm)
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1. Not One Word was Spoken by ADG member Rory Robertson-Shaw
The quote is from The True Levellers Standard Advanced by Gerrard Winstanley, published in 1649.
In the turmoil following the English Revolution, the King had been executed, and the world had been “turned upside down”. Radical groups like the Levellers emerged. Following the Leveller radical soldiers’ council movement within the New Model Army, where Leveller ideas briefly took over the army, showing how ordinary people could organise themselves without kings or lords, Gerrard Winstanley started calling his group the “True Levellers” (or Diggers). The Diggers subscribed to a form of proto-Anarchist-Communist Christianity, advocating the end of enclosure and the common ownership of land. They occupied land in order to farm it, but were ultimately driven out by local landowners.
2. Things Cannot Go Well in England by ADG member Celeste John-Wood
...declared the radical preacher John Ball in his drive to organise the peasants revolt of 1381.
Part of widespread uprisings happening across medieval Europe against feudal power, the peasants revolt was a struggle against the taxes and burdens issued on serfs and labourers “against nature and freedom”. John Ball’s sermons inspired thousands of people to march to London to ‘talk to the king’ and level their demands to power.
3. No People Can be Free by ADG member Bella Harter
“No people can be free…” is taken from Walter Crane’s famous ‘Garland for May Day’ poster, printed 1895. The Socialist League advocated for, amongst other things, a “commonwealth” where resources are shared, work is meaningful and workers aren’t exploited.
These ideas flow into the present, where (these dreams un-achieved), every hike in inflation leaves us less and less able to afford basic provisions, less and less able to afford rent, less and less able to afford meaningful and pleasurable pursuits.
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These ideas belong on our streets. Buying a poster will allow us to further our work of sending posters and stickers out to people for free to put into the street. So far we have sent out 170,000 stickers and posters.
To keep postage costs down, posters will be posted Royal Mail Second Class.
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