#ToryScumBag @Jacob_Rees_Mogg says 'we should celebrate..our wonderful history'. I celebrate the Peasants Revolt of 1381 which saw rebels kill the Lord Chancellor & the Lord High Treasurer and gave our rulers such a scare they didn't try another Poll Tax for another 600 years
#ToryScumBag @Jacob_Rees_Mogg says 'we should celebrate..our wonderful history'. I celebrate the victory of Parliament over Royalty in the English Revolution.
#ToryScumBag @Jacob_Rees_Mogg says 'we should celebrate..our wonderful history'. I celebrate the Putney Debates of 1647 where Thomas Rainsborough took on rich scum like Rees-Mogg:
#ToryScumBag @Jacob_Rees_Mogg says 'we should celebrate..our wonderful history'. I celebrate the great radical Tom Paine who played a key role in the American Revolution of 1776 & the French revolution of 1789 who ridiculed Royalty & religion and everything Rees-Mogg loves.
#ToryScumBag @Jacob_Rees_Mogg says 'we should celebrate..our wonderful history'. I celebrate The Chartists - the first mass working-class organisation in the World. It was led by the black tailor William Cuffay and the Irishman Feargus Edward O'Connor. Two fingers to Rees-Mogg.
#ToryScumBag @Jacob_Rees_Mogg says 'we should celebrate..our wonderful history'. I celebrate the wonderful Mary Woolstonecraft who fought for The Rights of Women!
#ToryScumBag @Jacob_Rees_Mogg says 'we should celebrate..our wonderful history'. I celebrate The Levellers and Gerrard Winstanley who knew who the enemy is.....
#ToryScumBag @Jacob_Rees_Mogg says 'we should celebrate..our wonderful history'. I celebrate The Levellers
#ToryScumBag @Jacob_Rees_Mogg says 'we should celebrate..our wonderful history'. I celebrate the 600 who gathered at St Peter's Field, Manchester, on 16 August 1819 to demand parliamentary representation . They were cut down by the guardians of the ruling-order. #Peterloo
#ToryScumBag @Jacob_Rees_Mogg says 'we should celebrate..our wonderful history'. I celebrate the #TolpuddleMartyrs - six agricultural labourers from who were deported to Australia by the ruling-order for the 'crime' of joining a a trade union.
#ToryScumBag @Jacob_Rees_Mogg says 'we should celebrate..our wonderful history'. I celebrate The Match Girls - young immigrant women who struck against their evil bosses and created the modern Trade Union movement.
#ToryScumBag @Jacob_Rees_Mogg says 'we should celebrate..our wonderful history'. I celebrate every worker who took on the bosses in The General Strike of 1926.
#ToryScumBag @Jacob_Rees_Mogg
says 'we should celebrate..our wonderful history'. I celebrate those who fought Mosley at #CableStreet and broke the ruling-class fascist and his Blackshirt scum.
#ToryScumBag @Jacob_Rees_Mogg says 'we should celebrate..our wonderful history'. I celebrate the Spithead and Nore mutinies when sailors stuck against their officers. Up The Floating Republic!
#ToryScumBag @Jacob_Rees_Mogg says 'we should celebrate..our wonderful history'. I celebrate the heroes of the Indian Rebellion of 1857 who rose up against British Imperialism of the East India Company.
#ToryScumBag @Jacob_Rees_Mogg says 'we should celebrate..our wonderful history'. I celebrate Britain’s working-class and poor who detested slavery and British slavers.
#ToryScumBag @Jacob_Rees_Mogg says 'we should celebrate..our wonderful history'. I celebrate the 10,639 Mancunians who signed a petition calling for the abolition of slavery in 1787.
#ToryScumBag @Jacob_Rees_Mogg says 'we should celebrate..our wonderful history'. I celebrate the 20,000 Mancunians who signed an anti-slavery petition in 1792 -one of 500 anti-slavery petitions were sent to Parliament that year.
#ToryScumBag @Jacob_Rees_Mogg says 'we should celebrate..our wonderful history'. I celebrate the 100 artisan cutler's who met in Sheffield in 1794 demanding abolition:
“Wishing to be rid of the weight of oppression under which we groan, we are induced to compassionate those who groan also". They declared "there can be no compromise between freedom and tyranny” and called for the "total emancipation" of slaves.
#ToryScumBag @Jacob_Rees_Mogg says 'we should celebrate..our wonderful history'. I celebrate the 1.500.000 who signed 806 anti-slavery petitions which were presented to Parliament in 1814.
#ToryScumBag @Jacob_Rees_Mogg says 'we should celebrate..our wonderful history'. I celebrate the anti-slavers of the West Riding town of Guiseley. Of its population of 7,000, over 2,000 put their names to an anti-slavery petition in 1814.
#ToryScumBag @Jacob_Rees_Mogg says 'we should celebrate..our wonderful history'. I celebrate the irrefutable solidarity the British working-class showed with slaves - they had a common enemy in the British ruling order.
In 1819, the Jamaican revolutionary Joseph Wedderburn organised a debate on slavery attended by many working-class Londoners. They debated if a slave had the right to kill his master.
It was reported that: “The question was decided in favour of the slave without a dissenting voice; indeed several gentlemen declared their readiness to assist them”.
#ToryScumBag @Jacob_Rees_Mogg says 'we should celebrate..our wonderful history'. I celebrate the fact that Karl Marx and Fred Engels wrote The Communist Manifesto in The Red Lion, Soho.
#ToryScumBag @Jacob_Rees_Mogg says 'we should celebrate..our wonderful history'. I celebrate the cotton weavers of Darwen who stood by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and supported his campaign for Indian independence from Great Britain.
#ToryScumBag @Jacob_Rees_Mogg says 'we should celebrate..our wonderful history'. I celebrate Udham Singh, the man who avenged the Jallianwala Bagh massacre by executing the butcher of Amritsar Michael O'Dwyer.
#ToryScumBag @Jacob_Rees_Mogg says 'we should celebrate..our wonderful history'. I celebrate the 1945 Labour victory and the widespread nationalisation it carried out.
#ToryScumBag @Jacob_Rees_Mogg says 'we should celebrate..our wonderful history'. I celebrate the creation of the #NHS in which the #Tories have always despised because its about public service, not private profit.
#ToryScumBag @Jacob_Rees_Mogg says 'we should celebrate..our wonderful history'. I celebrate the #Windrush generation, answered the call to come and help rebuild Britain after the war. They made this country a better place to live in.
#ToryScumBag @Jacob_Rees_Mogg says 'we should celebrate..our wonderful history'. I celebrate the Miners who struck in 1972 and 1974 and brought down the #Tory government of Edward Heath.
#ToryScumBag @Jacob_Rees_Mogg says 'we should celebrate..our wonderful history'. I celebrate the anti-racist who stopped the Nazi National Front marching in Lewisham in 1977.
#ToryScumBag @Jacob_Rees_Mogg says 'we should celebrate..our wonderful history'. I celebrate Jayaben Desai and the strikers at the Grunwick factory in 1977. "We are the lions, Mr. Manager."
#ToryScumBag @Jacob_Rees_Mogg says 'we should celebrate..our wonderful history'. I celebrate those who fought The Great Miners Strike of 1984 against a brutal and violent state. Our revenge will come.
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