United Kingdom

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

The Decimation of the English Working Class

The decimation of the English working class

A history of working class housing and some bleak speculations about a future that is coming unless we can change its course.

Crooked bureaucrat: Linda Perks

Unison paid officials caught sabotaging leadership election

A whistleblower within Unison's London region has leaked an audio recording of a meeting of paid…

Voice of Labour newspaper

Harsh justice in Folkestone: repression against opponents of World War I

A short account of the severe sentence handed out to anarchists in Folkestone just for flyposting…

Aircraft workers demonstrate their support for London squatters, September 19

The squatters of 1946 - Paul Burnham

A short history of the mass squatting movement in the UK, primarily organised by soldiers returning from World War II.

How Can a Real Revolution Be Achieved?

Transcript of the opening remarks of a debate between Dick Donnelly (for the Socialist Party of Great Britain) and Albert Meltzer (for Black Flag…

UCL Cut the Rent

London student rent strike campaign forces £500,000 in concessions from university

All demands by the UCL Cut the Rent campaign have been met by the Central London university after a…

Mick Woods remembers Lewisham '77

A first-hand account of the 1977 Battle of Lewisham, in which the far-right National Front were routed by locals and anti-fascists, from a…

An anti-fascist protester is arrested during the Battle of Lewisham, 1977.

Battle of Lewisham chronology

A chronology of key events in the immediate build up to, as well as during, the 'Battle of Lewisham' on the 13th August 1977.

The Battle of Lewisham: an anti-fascist's account - Martin Lux

A vivid and action-packed account of the Battle of Lewisham, written by Martin Lux and taken from…

Intakes: An activist's perspective on the fracking struggle at Balcombe

For this Intakes article, we asked one of our friends who had been along to the Balcombe site to share with us his experience of the anti-fracking campaign and to give us his perspective on its prospects for escalation.

What happened to the economic recovery in the West? The case of the UK

Did the crisis mark the beginning of a new down-swing in capitalist development? If not, why was the…

Speaker from Socialist Studies misrepresenting as SPGB

Setting the Record Straight

Socialist Studies pamphlet on their split from the SPGB