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One that you might like is red round glow pot burning,

a tail at the crossroads of commons and closure,

of love and tear, of race and class, and of Kate and class and of

and of Kate and Ned Disparred

by Peter Line-Bah with a forward from David Lloyd.

On February 21st 1803, Colonel Ned Marcus Despart was publicly hanged and decapitated in London

before a crowd of 20,000 for organizing a revolutionary conspiracy to overthrow King George the third.

His black Caribbean wife, Kate, helped to write his gallows speech in which he proclaimed

that he was a friend to the poor and the

oppressed. He expressed trust that quote the principles of freedom, of humanity,

and of justice will triumph over falsehood, tyranny, and delusion.

And yet the world turned, from the connected events of the American, French,

Haitian, and failed Irish revolutions to the Anthropocene's

birth amidst enclosures, war-making global capitalism, slave labor plantations, and factory machine production.

Red round globe hot burning throws readers into the pivotal moment of the last two millennia.

This monumental history, packed with a wealth of detail, presents a comprehensive chronicle of

the resistance to the demise of communal regimes.

Peter Linebaw's extraordinary narrative recovers the death-defying heroism of

extended networks of underground resistors fighting against privatization of the Commons

accomplished by two new political entities the USA and the UK that we now know would

dispossess people around the world through today.

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