The Magna Carta Manifesto: Liberties and Commons for All

Peter Linebaugh is a child of empire, schooled in London; Cattaraugus, NY; Washington, DC; Bonn; and Karachi. He went to Swarthmore College during the civil rights days. He has taught at Harvard University and Attica Penitentiary, at New York University and the Federal Penitentiary in Marion, Illinois. He used to edit Zerowork and was a member of show more the Midnight Notes Collective. He coauthored Albion's Fatal Tree and The Many-Headed Hydra and is the author of The London Hanged, The Magna Carta Manifesto, Stop, Thief!, and introductions to Verso's selection of Thomas Paine's writings and PM's edition of E.R Thompson's William Morris: Romantic to Revolutionary. He lives in the region of the Great Lakes. The final essay in this new collection constituted his retirement speech from the University of Toledo in Ohio. show less