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The north-west's festival for fairness, justice and equality
This year we celebrate 10 years of the Wigan Diggers Festival, says TUC North West secretary LYNN COLLINS
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THIS year we will come together and celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Wigan Diggers festival.
Established in 2010, this free, open-air festival will be returning once again to the streets of Wigan, Lancashire to celebrate the life and legacy of Gerrard Winstanley, one of the founders of The True Levellers movement of the 1600s.
The Wigan Diggers Festival is a socialist celebration in the north-west, remembering and recognising those early pioneers for fairness, justice and equality. Over 400 years has passed since Gerrard Winstanley and his Diggers took direct action against the powerful and the privileged and reclaimed what they believed was common land, belonging to no-one, to feed everyone.
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