United Kingdom

Ein faktenhaltiges Gedankenspiel für die Debatte über Aufstandsstrategien der Arbeiter_innenklasse: Erste Schritte in einer sechsmonatigen…

In response to the growing Charist movement the government turned to the army and the police to maintain control of the northern districts. As a…

Some of us take part in the ’40 years of Lucas Plan’ conference in Birmingham, 26th of November 2016 (http://lucasplan.org.uk/) - We wrote down…

A detailed, full-length history of the UK Chartist general strike of 1842 against pay cuts and for universal male suffrage, by Mick Jenkins with…

A historical overview and analysis of the Luddite movement 1811-1816 which swept parts of the UK as workers smashed machines to defend their jobs…

Originally written for the Freedom building fundraising blog as part off a history series kicking off the campaign, this article looks at the…

The recent employment tribunal ruling against Uber is not the end of the 'gig-economy' and might not change anything

A short personal account of a strike at the British Film Institute in 1974 by Jonathan Rosenbaum.

A short personal account of the strikes at the British Film Institute (BFI) in London in 2002.

This extract is from a centenary history of Freedom, published in 1986. Written by Heiner Becker, it offers as full a biography as we're likely…

Welcome to this special edition of the Socialist Standard, a commemorative issue marking one hundred years in the political life of the…