@Mab_Taliesin@AllisonPearson remember when Cymru welcomed all those evacuees* from London and other English cities seeking sanctuary during WWII? Was that a bad thing @AllisonPearson?
*another word for 'refugee', much like 'ex-pat' is another term for migrant
@bigfanofmykids@AllisonPearson "no taxation without representation" is what the Chartists, rightfully, campaigned for. All those listed above are obliged to pay tax so they should be able to vote
POUM Antifascist Militia card issued to American marxist Harry Milton. On 20 May 1937, Milton saved George Orwell's life after the writer was shot through neck by sniper on the Aragón front, by quickly stopping bleeding. In Catalan reflecting party's strong (Marxist) Cat identity
With its sheltering mountains, the Glynmawr valley lay broad and green. To a stranger Glynmawr would seem not a village but just thinly populated farming country
- Border Country, 1960
In 1791 [Jeremy] Bentham defined the anarchist as one who 'denies the validity of the law...and calls upon all mankind to rise up in a mass, and resist the execution of it', a sense again near that of early [definition of] democrat
- Keywords, 2nd ed., 1983
#anarchism
There is no single relation between the nature of a society and the character of its literature, but there are significant and possibly significant relations which seem to vary with the actual history
- The Long Revolution, 1961
For thirty miles he had been able to look back at the mountains, at the blue peaks and the long grey ridge, gradually lowering in the sky. Now, when the last contact had gone, he looked at a different country, flat and open
- Border Country, 1960
Most of T.S. Eliot's mature work was in drama: in the plays from 'Murder in the Cathedral' (1935) to 'The Elder Statesman' (1958)
- Drama From Ibsen to Brecht, 1968