1976: The Notting Hill Carnival riots An account of the riots at the popular West London carnival which were sparked by the arbitrary harassment and arrests of young black attendees…
1976: The Soweto riots A short history of the riots against new education laws that turned into a mass collective rejection of apartheid South Africa by thousands of…
Riots in Budapest demand government's resignation Clashes have broken out in Budapest after the ‘Socialist’ Hungarian Prime Minister broke convention and admitted lying to get elected.
1977: The Battle of Lewisham An account of the street battles which took place in London when local residents decided to stop a fascist National Front march in their…
Beating back Mosley in Notting Hill, 1958 - Baker Baron A Notting Hill resident recounts his story of fighting racists and fascists in West London.
1973: Broadmeadows Ford workers’ strike In June 1973 workers at the Broadmeadows Ford factory exploded smashing up their workplace, facing off police and forcing union bosses into…
The Luton riots, 1919 The history of the riots which flared up in Luton. Ex-servicemen and their families, angered by extravagant publicly-funded victory celebrations…
1851: The Sydney sailors' riot A history of the violent clash between Australian sailors and police after officers attempted to arrest a sailor dressed as a woman.
Class war in Palestine A mass strike is due to erupt amongst civil servants in Palestine over the non-payment of wages, amidst party-political manoeuvres by the ruling…
News from Bangladesh Unrest continues across Bangladesh, with widespread strikes and the mass revolt against an attempt by a British company to begin destructive…
Garment workers revolt in Bangladesh RM analyses the strikes, riots and fires of the garment workers of Bangladesh for libcom.org/news.
Toxteth no better 25 years on A report by a regional newspaper into the Toxteth area of Liverpool, 25 years on from a popular uprising in the area that shook the city, has found that promises to invest heavily from the government