A People's Calendar
A People's Calendar (aPC) is an open-source project that seeks to promote the worldwide history of working class movements and liberation struggles in the form of a searchable "On This Day" style calendar.
Event of the Day
![A drawing of the Diggers digging in the commons, attacked by cavalry. Unknown author and year. A caption on the image quotes Gerrand Winstanley: "England is not a free people, till the poor that have no land, have a free allowance to dig and labour the commons..." [Spartacus-Educational]](https://stahmaxffcqankienulh.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/event-photos/Organizations/diggers.jpg)
On this day in 1649, a group of commoners began sowing vegetables on St George's Hill in Surrey, England. Their movement became known as the Diggers, agrarian proto-communist dissidents who opposed enclosure during the English Civil War.
Image: A drawing of the Diggers digging in the commons, attacked by cavalry. Unknown author and year. A caption on the image quotes Gerrand Winstanley: "England is not a free people, till the poor that have no land, have a free allowance to dig and labour the commons..." [Spartacus-Educational]