In the Name of the People: Angola's Forgotten Massacre

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The Roman geographer Ptolemy places them in the Southern uplands of Scotland, although it is not clear from the little evidence we have as to exactly where this people lived. Some scholars place their location as the upper Tweed Basin, and it is unclear if they were part of the Votadini. At the time of the Roman Conquest people in this region wore swords carried in distinctive local metal scabbards that were highly decorated. In this book Íñigo Errejón of Podemos and political theorist Chantal Mouffe discuss the emergence of these new movements, and in particular of Podemos. They critically engage with both the older traditions and the newly emerging parties and movements. They explore new ways of creating collective identities, and building majorities, while also reflecting on the major political challenges facing the left. The conversation between them is an intervention from two people who are ideally placed to draw on the seminal earlier theoretical work of Mouffe with Ernesto Laclau, and to link it directly into the practice of the new politics. Indeed, they may have been one of the first tribes to submit to the Romans, even before the Romans reached their territory. Centred in Dorset, this people were also found in southern parts of Wiltshire and Somerset and western Dorset.

The book … provides fresh direction for the future of left politics in a time when the left is facing defeat everywhere.’ For a time in the period around AD 45-57, they led the British opposition to the Roman advance westwards.

Open democracies, where opponents respect one another even as they contest for power, are under threat from a rising tide of populism. In this stark new world, political opponents are enemies to be destroyed by fake news and independent institutions are being turned in the tools of perpetuating power. They used coins, cremated their dead, ate from plates and drank from cups, They became part of the large kingdom established by the rules of the Catuvellauni. They were a small, but distinctive group of people who farmed the chalk hills of the Yorkshire Wolds.

The most successful king was Cunobelinus (Cymbeline), but after his death in the late 30's AD, his kingdom was beset by rivalries between his successors.The Dumnonii appear to have accepted the Roman conquest without resistance and as a result few garrison forts were placed in their territory, although this area never fully adopted Roman ways of life. They lived in small farms scattered across the countryside and shared many features of their lives with their neighbours across the Bristol Channel in Devon and Cornwall.