United Kingdom

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

The Story of Crass & The Day The Country Died

Two complementary books revisiting the experience of anarcho-punk provide fascinating insights into the evolution and development of the movement…

Hillary Clinton meets with Saudi puppet Abd Monsour Hadi 2012

In Yemen, the US finds itself fighting alongside al-Qaeda

The US claims to be fighting a war on groups like al-Qaeda and ISIS, but you wouldn't know it by…

States, Nations, Borders. Bullshit! Oppose Fascists in Dover! - Plan C

Anti-fascists in Plan C on why they are supporting the call out by the Anti-Fascist Network (AFN) to…

Opposing the far-right in Dover

On Saturday 30 January, fascists and assorted racists from a range of far-right groups will descend on the port town of Dover. Their aim is to…

The dirty tricks of the Shrewsbury trials expose the dark heart of the radical 1970s - Paul Mason

Article by economist Paul Mason about the 1972 UK builders' strike that led to the…

Construction workers in Stevenage

Building a community: construction workers in Stevenage 1950-1970

Interesting pamphlet about the workers who built the new town of Stevenage, commissioned by the…

Construction workers at the Barbican. Photograph by John Steeden.

Battles on the Barbican: the struggle for trade unionism in the British building industry, 1965–7 - Charlie McGuire, Linda Clarke and Christine Wall

History of the industrial disputes and workers' struggles on the Barbican…

Workers on the Barbican site, 1965

Building the Barbican 1962-1982: taking the industry out of the dark ages

Fantastic pamphlet on the workers' struggles during the construction of the brutalist masterpiece…

Illustration of a protest to reduce the price of grain

Damn his charity, we'll have the cheese for naught! Nottingham's great cheese riot and other 1766 food riots - Valentine Yarnspinner

Superb pamphlet by Valentine Yarnspinner published by the People's Histreh group…

Fieldgate Street in the 1970s

62 Fieldgate Street: yesterday, today and tomorrow - Mark Kauri

A look at the history of the building in East London where the London Action Resource Centre is…

Noise protest outside HMP Brixton in South London in 2014

New Years Eve prison noise protests in London

On New Years Eve there are protests outside prisons across the world, we spoke a member of London Anarchist Black Cross about what's happening in…

Lambert

Ex-police spy Bob Lambert resigns academic posts

Bob Lambert , former police spy, has resigned from his posts as lecturer on counter-terrorism at the University of St Andrews and London…