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CLASS AGAINST CLASS: (L to R) Samuel William Fores’s cartoon of the May Day Garland for 1820, with aristocrats dancing under the severed heads of the conspirators and, right, the building where the conspiracy took place
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THE Cato Street Conspiracy — named after the meeting place where the conspirators met near Edgware Road in the West End of London — was an attempt to murder all the British Cabinet ministers and the prime minister Lord Liverpool in 1820.
Most of its members were angered by the economic depression and political repression of the time and planned to assassinate the Cabinet, which on the night of February 23 was supposed to dine together in Lord Liverpool’s Grosvenor Square house.
They would then seize key buildings, overthrow the government and establish a committee of public safety to oversee a radical revolution.
Inspired by a hit TV show, KEITH FLETT takes a look at the murky history of undercover class war
NICK MATTHEWS recalls how the ideals of socialism and the holding of goods in common have an older provenance than you might think
While an as-yet-unnamed new left party struggles to be born, MAT COWARD looks at some of the wild and wonderful names of workers’ organisations past that have been lost to time
SUE TURNER is appalled by the story of the only original colonising family to still own a plantation in the West Indies