Peterloo Massacre

Earlier this year in Manchester, England, there was a furor around a public monument to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Peterloo Massacre, a central event in British labor history in which mounted soldiers rode into a workers’ protest, killing 18 people.

Hundreds of people are gathering in Manchester to mark the 200th anniversary of the Peterloo massacre.

Today Two hundredth anniversary of the Peterloo Massacre, the violent quelling of a peaceful protest for parliamentary reform at St Peter's Field, Manchester, in which an estimated 18 people were killed.

Worse, an estimated 18 people would lose their lives – bayoneted, sabred, trampled by cavalry – in what came to be known as the Peterloo massacre, a parodic comparison with the British victory at the Battle of Waterloo four years earlier.

A few weeks before the 200th anniversary of the Peterloo massacre, the Radisson Blu hotel advertised for a “monitoring and evaluation assistant” on zero hours.