Fire Brigade: Will London burn? The inside story of what is really happening in the London Fire Brigade, as told to The Commune.
Local report from Hackney, London - Crisis in the city's ripped backyard A report on the effects of the crisis, cuts, restructuring and possibilities for struggle in Hackney…
Workers' report: general conditions and the conditions for generalisation at Hackney Street Cleansing Department A report about working life in refuse collection, recycling and street cleaning…
Dare to be a Daniel! - Wilf McCartney Wilf McCartney (1877-1949) was a catering worker from the age of ten. Here he gives a vivid description of the conditions in the kitchens of…
Strike for the living wage at the National Gallery Staff at the National Gallery in London have struck for the second time this year to demand the London living wage.
Chatterton, Dan autobiography Written a few years before he died, Chatterton describes his time as a lifelong London working class radical and revolutionist.
No God, No Devil. No Heaven, No Hell - Dan Chatterton, The Scorcher (1894) Chatterton's call for an end to religion, the abolition of Monarchy, Parliament, "the entire…
The Abolition of the Queen, Lords and Commons - Dan Chatterton, The Scorcher Addressed to the Prime Minister of the day - Chatterton's Communist programme for overthrowing the…
Keeping Occupied - Living on the Ocean Estate in Stepney Green An interesting personal account of squatting on an estate in Tower Hamlets, east London.
Cantwell, Thomas Edward, 1864-1906 A short biography of Tom Cantwell, anarchist active in the Socialist League and with Freedom
First buses London strike injunction After the banning of the British Airways cabin crew strike, now First bus workers have also been banned from striking by the courts.
Letter from a London street cleaner An account of working life for a London street sweeper hired through a temp agency.