Putney Debates

Revolutions: classic revolutionary writings set ablaze by today’s radical writers. This essential series features classic texts by key figures who took center stage during a period of insurrection. Each book is introduced by a major contemporary radical writer who shows how these incendiary words still have the power to inspire, to provoke and maybe to ignite new revolutions...

This specially-priced shrink-wrapped set contains the first 13 volumes in the series:

• Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman(introduced by Sheila Rowbotham)
• Thomas Müntzer’s Sermon to the Princes(introduced by Wu Ming)
• Thomas Paine’s The Rights of Man and Common Sense(introduced by Peter Linebaugh)
• Simon Bolivar’s The Bolivarian Revolution(introduced by Hugo Chavez)
• Toussaint L'Ouverture’s The Haitian Revolution(introduced by Jean-Bertrand Aristide)
• Fidel Castro’s The Declarations of Havana(introduced by Tariq Ali)
• Leon Trotsky’s Terrorism and Communism(introduced by Slavoj Zizek)
• Maximilien Robespierre’s Virtue and Terror(introduced by Slavoj Zizek)
• Thomas Jefferson’s The Declaration of Independence(introduced by Michael Hardt)
• Jesus Christ’s The Gospels(introduced by Terry Eagleton)
• Mao Zedong’s On Practice and Contradiction(introduced by Slavoj Zizek)
• The Levellers The Putney Debates(introduced by Geoffrey Robinson)
• Ho Chi Minh’s Down With Colonialism!(introduced by Walden Bello)

Evolving from Oliver Cromwell’s New Model army in Parliament’s struggle against King Charles I, the Levellers pushed for the removal of corruption in parliament, universal voting rights and religious toleration. This came to a head with the famous debates between the Levellers and Cromwell at St Mary’s church in Putney, London. Renowned human-rights lawyer and author Geoffrey Robertson argues for the relevance of the Levellers’ stand today, showing how they were the first Western radical democrats.

In a series of debates with Oliver Cromwell in Civil War England of 1647, the Levellers argued for democracy for the first time in British history.

Evolving from Oliver Cromwell's New Model army in Parliament's struggle against King Charles I, the Levellers pushed for the removal of corruption in parliament, universal voting rights and religious toleration. This came to a head with the famous debates between the Levellers and Cromwell at St Mary's church in Putney, London. Renowned human-rights lawyer and author Geoffrey Robertson argues for the relevance of the Levellers' stand today, showing how they were the first Western radical democrats.

In a series of debates with Oliver Cromwell in Civil War England of 1647, the Levellers argued for democracy for the first time in British history.

Evolving from Oliver Cromwell"s New Model army in Parliament"s struggle against King Charles I, the Levellers pushed for the removal of corruption in parliament, universal voting rights and religious toleration. This came to a head with the famous debates between the Levellers and Cromwell at St Mary"s church in Putney, London. Renowned human-rights lawyer and author Geoffrey Robertson argues for the relevance of the Levellers" stand today, showing how they were the first Western radical democrats.

Classic texts by key figures who took center-stage during a period of insurrection.

Evolving from Oliver Cromwell’s New Model army in Parliament’s struggle against King Charles I, the Levellers pushed for the removal of corruption in parliament, universal voting rights and religious toleration. This came to a head with the famous debates between the Levellers and Cromwell at St Mary’s church in Putney, London. Renowned human-rights lawyer and author Geoffrey Robertson argues for the relevance of the Levellers’ stand today, showing how they were the first Western radical democrats.

Evolving from Oliver Cromwell’s New Model Army in Parliament’s struggle against King Charles I, the Levellers pushed for the removal of corruption in parliament, universal voting rights and religious toleration.Philip Baker is a Senior Research Officer at the Centre for Metropolitan History. He has published a number of articles on the social and economic history of early modern London.Geoffrey Robinson QC is founder and head of Doughty Street Chambers. He is the author of many books, including Crimes Against Humanity: The Struggle for Global Justice and The Tyrannicide Brief. He is a Visiting Professor in Human Rights Law at Birkbeck College and Queen Mary, University of London.