In the summer of 1842 the whole of England's industrial economy was brought to a stop by an insurrection of the men and women who worked in it.
It was the one really striking example of a 'Marxist' uprising of the industrial workers, and in this documentary reconstruction Alan Ereira sets out to show that it was the inspiration for Marx and Engels to write the Communist Manifesto.

Narrated by Alan Ereira
With Nigel Anthony as Engels, Malcolm Gerard as Marx, Stephen Thorne as Pilling and Hugh Dickson as Reach