23 July 2019, World Socialist Web Site (Austrlia) https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/23/assa-j23.html
By our reporters
As part of the global defence
campaign to secure freedom for Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning, the
Socialist Equality Party attended the Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival in Dorchester
on Sunday. A campaign stall won support from hundreds of workers, students and
retirees.
The annual festival commemorates the
lives of six agricultural labourers from Dorset, arrested and convicted in 1834
for swearing an oath to form a union. The men were sentenced to seven years’
transportation to Australia. Five were sent to New South Wales and the
sixth—George Loveless—was sent in chains
