United Kingdom

Content about events and struggles in what is now the United Kingdom.

Rebel Roo (issue 5, March 2017)

Issue 5 of the superbly produced "Rebel Roo", an industrial bulletin put out by Plan C for Deliveroo workers and other food couriers in the UK.

Counter-inaugural protests, 19 January 2016

2017: how we got here and how liberalism failed us

An overview of how the events of the past 25 years have lead us to the situation we now find ourselves in.

Thoughts on Mark Fisher and the “slow cancellation of the future”

Mark Fisher's Ghosts of My Past shows the world through Fisher’s eyes, a beautifully depressing…

Hulme Town Hall, late 19th century

Hulme against fascism, 1936

A short account of the attacks on Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists organisation in Hulme, Manchester.

Central Stockton around this time

The battle of Stockton, 1933

A short account, by David Walsh, of the smashing off the streets of Oswald Mosley's fascist Blackshirts in Stockton.

Mosley in hospital, 1937

Liverpool versus Oswald Mosley, 1937

A short account of the time in 1937 when fascist leader Oswald Mosley attempted to address the people of Liverpool, and was promptly hospitalised…

NHS on the brink? A nurse's view on the March 4th demonstration and where the NHS is heading

On March 4th, around 250,000 NHS workers, patient activists, union members and…

Blackshirts campaigning in Plymouth, 1930s

Fighting the fascists in Devon, 1930s

A review of Blackshirts in Devon, by Todd Gray, telling the story of resistance to fascism in Plymouth and Devon in the early 1930s.

Blackshirts on the streets of Manchester, 1934

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.

Illustration of levellers in discussion

The English Revolution, 1640

Christopher Hill's Marxist analysis of the English civil war and revolution in the 17th century, published in 1940.

Aba Station, 1920s

The Aba Women's War

The “Women’s War” is seen as the first major challenge to British authority in Nigeria and West Africa during the colonial period, and took…

Aba Women’s War of 1929

Short history by Lorna Lueker Zukas of the Aba Women's War of 1929-1930 against social, political and economic grievances with British colonial…