Against the grain: the British far left from 1956 A general history of the post-1956 British far-left. Its contents cover a range of organisations beyond the Labour Party, bringing together…
The Lessons of Angola - Walter Rodney, 1976 Walter Rodney criticises the support given to UNITA (backed by the CIA, apartheid South Africa, and Maoist China) in Angola by many leftists in…
The Memphis sanitation strike, 1968 A short history of the 1968 strike of 1300 African-American sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee, during which Martin Luther King Jr. was…
R.U.R. Rossum’s Universal Robots - Karel Čapek A stage play about an industrialists attempt to maximise productivity by replacing human workers with artificial ones dubbed `Robots`.
Falling star: Countering gender essentialism with sex essentialism Red and Black Leeds on the limitations of both gender essentialism and sex essentialism as a way to…
Protest without illusions Compilation of writings of British anarchist Vernon Richards from 1955 to 1964 on the anti-war movement and movement for the abolition of nuclear…
Lessons of the Spanish Revolution - Vernon Richards A critical account and assessment of the Spanish civil war and revolution, particularly focusing on the successes and failures of the anarchist…
Socialist Studies Socialist Studies is a quarterly journal published since 1989 originally by Camden and North West London branches of the SPGB and subsequently the group of the same name formed by some of…
The general strike and Irish independence Interesting article by John Dorney on the syndicalist tactic of the general strike and its relationship with the struggle for Irish independence…
The Iva Valley miners strike and massacre at Enugu colliery, 1949 On the 18th November 1949, 21 striking miners and a bystander were shot dead at a British government…
The postal strike of 1922 Cathal Brennan tells the story of the postal strike of September 1922, in which the postal unions struck against pay cuts in the infancy of the…
