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Feb 2019
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Oliver Cromwell and the English Revoluti...

Revolutionary Communist Party
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In this video from the 2018 Revolution Festival, Alan Woods (editor of In Defence of Marxism) discusses the events of the English Civil War - England's revolution.The civil war in the 17th century saw the forces of Parliament battling against the monarchy of Charles I, fighting for power over England.In essence, this was a revolutionary struggle for dominati ... Show More
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