Fascism and anti-fascism in 1930s Manchester An account of the growth of fascism in Manchester in the early 1930s, and working class resistance to it.
The general strike of 1842 As many as half a million workers may have been caught up in a strike wave which linked demands for the Charter and an end to pay cuts. This page…
Eyewitness account of the Peterloo massacre - Samuel Bamford A first person account of the Peterloo massacre of pro-democracy demonstrators by the British army…
History of the Peterloo massacre, 1819 A short history of the mass killing of workers protesting for democracy and better conditions by the British army in 1819. While brutal, the…
LSSE Wobblies send solidarity to the sacked A2Z staff The IWW members at the Leicester Square School of English would like to send our fullest solidarity…
Porcelain Since I visited the Marx Memorial Library in Clerkenwell I have been harbouring an interest in porcelain, pots, ceramics and such folk, craft, popular art objects which commemorate radical…
Abe Lincoln and the 'sublime heroism' of British workers A blog by Paul Mason detailing the support of Manchester's white textile workers of black slaves…
The 1842 Strike In the summer of 1842 a great wave of strikes engulfed Lancashire and Yorkshire. The wave began in the Staffordshire coalfield in July when the miners went on strike for fewer hours and more…
Miserable worker The first of a bulletin produced by workers around the Manchester area, tirading against work, published in the Subversion journal.
Manchester Class Struggle Forum - How can the Working Class fight back? The next meeting of the Manchester Class Struggle Forum will be held on Wednesday the 6th of April,…
Only the beginning of their offensive Leaflet distributed by Manchester Class Struggle Forum at both Manchester universities on Tuesday the 22nd of March and Thursday the 24th of…
