The Battle of Cable St, 1936 - Joe Jacobs Joe Jacobs was in 1936 a local Communist Party activist in London's East End. This is his account of his involvement in the famous defence of the…
London tube workers strike over safety A section of the Bakerloo line is suspended as 150 workers stage a 24 hour strike over staffing levels.
The many headed hydra: Sailors, slaves, and the atlantic working class in the eighteenth century - Marcus Rediker and Peter Linebaugh Article on class struggle and compositon in the period leading up to and during the…
The Stop The City demonstrations, 1983-1984 A short account of the Stop the City demonstrations of 1983 and 1984 which were described as a 'Carnival Against War, Oppression and Destruction…
A review of Joe Jacob's 'Out of the Ghetto' - Al Richardson A review of the late Joe Jacob's excellent autobiography. Growing up in London's Jewish East End, Joe was variously a Communist Party militant, anti-fascist, Trotskyist, and in his later years a member of the Solidarity libertarian socialist group.
Academy site occupied in Brent Protestors have occupied Wembley Park sports field in an attempt to prevent the construction of a City Academy.
Barker, Ambrose, 1859-1953 Short biography of East London radical secularist and anarchist, Ambrose Barker, who was active in the Socialist League, Walthamstow Anarchist Group and the London Freedom Group.
The Destruction of Toytown UK - BM Blob A collection of accounts and analysis of the Poll Tax riot, 1990, published by BM Blob.
The Wapping printers' dispute, 1986-7 - Sam Lowry A short history of a strike and subsequent lockout by printers in the Wapping area of London, which began in the winter of 1986 and ended just…
15. Waterloo, Blood and Honour gig, London, 1992 A personal account of the battle of Waterloo, when Anti Fascist Action trashed a gig by neo-nazi label Blood and Honour by disrupting their…