Ken Weller

Content by or about Ken Weller (1935–2021), member of Spies For Peace, Solidarity and a London radical historian.

Ken Weller

Strategy for Industrial Struggle

Strategy for industrial struggle - Mark Fore

The years 1970-72 saw industrial struggle in the UK reach levels which hadn't been seen since the 1920s. This pamphlet by "Mark Fore", a…

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Solidarity for workers' power #2.05

Issue of Solidarity from 16 September 1962 with articles about a Committee of 100 leaflet being distributed in Moscow, the situation in Vauxhall…

Solidarity for workers' power #2.03

Issue of Solidarity from 21 May 1962 with articles about an unofficial struggle against tea break reductions at Ford Dagenham, the civil rights…

Solidarity for workers' power #2.02

Issue of Solidarity from 19 April, 1962 with articles about a huge sit-in at the British Motor Corporation, the US civil rights movement, work on the London docks and more.

What happened at Fords - Ken Weller and Ernie Stanton

Solidarity pamphlet 26 containing three articles about the defeat of the workers in a dispute at the…

Truth about Vauxhall - Ken Weller

1967 reprint of Solidarity pamphlet 12 from 1962 about the situation at Vauxhall Motors in the UK. In particular it looks at how management had…

Jack Hayes, police union secretary, addresses strike rally on Tower Hill, 1918

A short history of the police strikes of 1918-1919 - Ken Weller

Ken Weller of Solidarity's brief history of the two strikes of London police officers during and…

Bus workers on strike, 1918

The London transport women workers' strike, 1918 - Ken Weller

A short history of the partially successful wildcat strike of women workers in London's public…

Antiwar demonstration in Trafalgar Square, 1914

'Don't be a soldier!' The radical anti-war movement in north London 1914-1918 - Ken Weller

Ken Weller of Solidarity's excellent and detailed historical account of working…

IWW pyramid of class relations

The north London IWW in the 1st World War - Ken Weller

A chapter from Weller's excellent Don't be a Soldier! - the radical anti-war movement in north…

The Lordstown struggle and the real crisis in production - Ken Weller

Fascinating pamphlet by Solidarity on the informal workers struggle against the frenetic pace of…