Tag Archives: Chartists

By Scott Jones The Chartist mural in Newport, a beautiful 200,000 piece mosaic in memory of working-class struggle, was destroyed in October 2013. But unlike the hated Colston statue in Bristol, Newport’s mural was destroyed completely legally – not by any protesters, but by Newport’s Labour council. This disgraceful act of vandalism sneakily pre-empted a planned protest to save it ...

By Dave Reid Over 500 angry people protested against the destruction of the Chartist mural in Newport by the right wing Labour council and Queensberry property developers. There had been a rising tide of opposition to the plans to destroy the mural which was culminating in the protest on Saturday 5 October, but the council pre-empted the protest by sending ...

By Dave Reid Chartism in the 19th century was the first political movement of the British working class and arguably the first mass workers movement in history. In 1838 the People’s Charter had been drawn up by the London Working Men’s Association demanding equal political rights for the working class. Property qualifications prevented workers from standing for parliament or even ...