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JOHN REES, national officer of the Stop The War Coalition, political activist and historian, has just had published his new book John Lilburne and the Levellers: Reappraising the Roots of English Radicalism 400 Years On.
As a long-time admirer of Lilburne, the Agitators of the New Model Army and the civilian Levellers, I was eager to talk to him about their struggles to establish a democratic republic, their legacy, and their relevance today in these times of great social and political upheaval; times in which grassroots political activism is forcing change at the highest levels.
I took with me questions from members of Veterans For Peace UK, which organised the Putney Debates 2017 event at which Rees recently spoke.
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