Fight for Scottish Democracy
Fight for Scottish Democracy Three Scottish weavers, James Wilson, Andrew Hardie and John Baird, were hanged and beheaded for high treason in the summer of 1820. Their crime? Nineteen more men were…
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Fight for Scottish Democracy
Three Scottish weavers, James Wilson, Andrew Hardie and John Baird, were hanged and beheaded for high treason in the summer of 1820. Their crime? Nineteen more men were transported to the penal colony of Botany Bay.
The contempt and intransigence of the Tory government forced an escalation in tactics, and on Easter Monday of 1820, the call for a general strike was answered throughout the western counties of Scotland. To have taken up arms against a corrupt and nepotistic parliament, and the aristocratic government that refused to reform it.This 'Radical War' was the culmination of five years of unsuccessful mass petitioning of Westminster by working people in Scotland and England. Their demands were threefold: the vote for all men, annual parliaments and equal constituencies.
Coupled with an armed rebellion, the strike was met by the full military might of the British state;
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