In the month of August in 1819, Manchester's leading Magistrates disgraced that town in the eyes of the civilised world. Over sixty-thousand peaceful working men, women and children demonstrating for Parliamentary Reform had assembled on Saint Peter's Fields. They were slashed with sabres, trampled by horses and crushed to death by panic for having the temerity to do so. Shelley wrote The Masque of Anarchy as a result. Not surprisingly, many workers of the subsequent period could recite every single verse, word for word, and the scarcely hidden revolutionary message they contain wasn't lost on them. As a result Manchester and Salford took the lead in the struggle to advance the rights of working children, men and women and spear-headed the fight for social justice, universal suffrage and Parliamentary Reform. Video by the workers at www.penandmouth.com
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