![WMCommonweal's tweet photo. "O me! O me! How I love the earth, and the seasons, and weather, and all things that deal with it, and all that grows out of it, - as this [some lichen] has done!"
Ellen, one of the few people with any depth in News from Nowhere, on loving nature.
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The second edition of Commonweal, from March 1885, in the words of EP Thompson, "must sure have been one the most remarkable issues of any British Socialist periodical." #Commonweal #WilliamMorris
Bound by Thomas Cobden-Sanderson after the original binding started to fray. The English translation was a few years away, and not having German, Morris first read Capital in French
William Morris’s own copy of Marx’s Capital, bounded especially for him.
Interesting to think here of Morris's criticism of General Gordon's orders to cut down the fruit-trees of the local people, a frequent strategy through to the present day, particularly the destruction of thousands of olive trees in the West Bank
William Morris on the unveiling of the statue of General Gordon (originally in Trafalgar Sq., now Victoria Embankment), "that most dangerous tool of capitalistic oppression, the 'God-fearing soldier'"
Commonweal 4.146 (27 Oct., 1888)
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The Vale of Tears.
By Heinrich Heine. Translated by Sir Theodore Martin.
Commonweal 4.145 (20 October, 1888)
Also in this edition was an optimistic Notice, expecting an "immense demand" for the next issue with a printing of La Carmagnole. Earlier in the year Morris had stopped financing losses on the paper due to its increasingly violent tone. It would soon be financially unsustainable.
Also in this edition of Commonweal was someone (N.) wishing John Morley had had his head smashed so he could feel firsthand the treatment often dealt out by "our admirable police".
"Yes, surely! and if others can see it as I have seen it, then it may be called a vision rather than a dream."
The last installment of William Morris's News from Nowhere, published #OTD in 1890.
Commonweal 6.247 (4 October, 1890)
Also in this edition was an optimistic Notice, expecting an "immense demand" for the next issue with a printing of La Carmagnole. Earlier in the year Morris had stopped financing losses on the paper due to its increasingly violent tone. It would soon be financially unsustainable.
"Yes, surely! and if others can see it as I have seen it, then it may be called a vision rather than a dream."
The last installment of William Morris's News from Nowhere, published #OTD in 1890.
Commonweal 6.247 (4 October, 1890)
Also in this edition of Commonweal was someone (N.) wishing John Morley had had his head smashed so he could feel firsthand the treatment often dealt out by "our admirable police".
Morris frequently targeted these "soft Socialists, who so long as they are allowed to steal the goose will not object to give the giblets to the poor".
Commonweal 5.194 (28 Sept, 1889)
"Therefore it is that the middle-class semi-Socialists, driving by class instinct, preach revolution without the class struggle; which is an absurdity and an impossibility."
William Morris on the Fabians and others like them.
Commonweal 5.194 (28 Sept, 1889)
"And it must be understood that it is only by the due working out of this class-war to its end, the abolition of classes, that Socialism can come about."
William Morris on the "fact of the class-war".
Commonweal 5.194 (28 Sept, 1889)
Morris frequently targeted these "soft Socialists, who so long as they are allowed to steal the goose will not object to give the giblets to the poor".
Commonweal 5.194 (28 Sept, 1889)
"And it must be understood that it is only by the due working out of this class-war to its end, the abolition of classes, that Socialism can come about."
William Morris on the "fact of the class-war".
Commonweal 5.194 (28 Sept, 1889)
"Therefore it is that the middle-class semi-Socialists, driving by class instinct, preach revolution without the class struggle; which is an absurdity and an impossibility."
William Morris on the Fabians and others like them.
Commonweal 5.194 (28 Sept, 1889)
"O me! O me! How I love the earth, and the seasons, and weather, and all things that deal with it, and all that grows out of it, - as this [some lichen] has done!"
Ellen, one of the few people with any depth in News from Nowhere, on loving nature.
Commonweal 6.246 (27 Sept, 1890)
![WMCommonweal's tweet photo. "O me! O me! How I love the earth, and the seasons, and weather, and all things that deal with it, and all that grows out of it, - as this [some lichen] has done!"
Ellen, one of the few people with any depth in News from Nowhere, on loving nature.
Commonweal 6.246 (27 Sept, 1890) https://t.co/MSzhql54pR](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F7Bx1kDWcAAJxk0.png)
"it is well worth a penny"
William Morris' brief note on the first issue of the anarchist paper Freedom.
Commonweal 2.37 (25 September, 1886)
"it is well worth a penny"
William Morris' brief note on the first issue of the anarchist paper Freedom.
Commonweal 2.37 (25 September, 1886)
Walter Crane had also used the figure of Atlas in his illustrations for this Imperial Federation Map. Here Britannia is sat atop the globe, which is held up by Atlas, who has the words 'Human Labour' across his chest, a slight reminder to viewers of the ultimate basis of empire.
"On Atlas' Top"
Predominately known for his illustrations, cartoons, and work in the Arts & Crafts Movement, Walter Crane also wrote poetry.
Commonweal 3.88 (17 Sept, 1887)
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