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.
Marx on the piss; a London pub crawl with Karl Marx in the late 1850s - Wilhelm Liebknecht An account by Liebknecht of a smashing drunken evening in London town, written some…
Housing and cleaners' struggles in London in the 1960s-70s - May Hobbs In two chapters from her autobiographical account Born To Struggle, May describes her struggles…
Paper Boys - one man's accounts of picketing at Wapping One man's very personal account of the often violent picketing during the News International strike…
Bus strikes in East London Bus drivers and engineers in East London walked out today in a 24-hour action which stopped around 750 buses and either froze or disrupted 58…
Ford Visteon Enfield Workers Occupation - Alan Woodward An eyewitness account of the 2009 Enfield Ford-Visteon factory occupation, written immediately after…
Tower Hamlets College strikers interview The Commune interviews two participants in the September 2009 ESOL teachers strike in East London against job cuts.
Tower Hamlets College strike ends in partial victory After a month-long strike against cuts, teaching staff at Tower Hamlets College have voted to return to work.
Tower Hamlets College strike continues into fourth week ESOL teachers in east London continue their indefinite strike. A striker reports...