United Kingdom

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

Language workers got Tallents!

The Angry Language Brigade and the London IWW have officially ended their dispute with the Leicester Square School of English and its wage…

cooperative womens guild members with white poppy wreath

Wear the white poppy with pride

Labour MPs have urged Jeremy Corbyn not to wear a white poppy on Remembrance Day. Symbols like that matter, this article argues

Undercover police posing as activists

Public inquiry on undercover policing: urgent deadline to register as core participant

Public pressure has forced the Home Secretary into announcing a Public Inquiry into undercover…

5 reasons to steer clear of the Labour Party bandwagon

After a campaign that seemed to drag on endlessly in the wake of the general election, Jeremy Corbyn…

Contemporary engraving depiction of the 1889 schoolchildren's strike

The schoolchildren's strikes, 1889 - Steven Johns

A brief history of walkouts of schoolchildren across the UK in October 1889 against corporal punishment and excessive workloads.

Anti-fascists blocking route of fascist march in Dover

Neo-Nazi mob riots at anti-immigration protest

Around 200 neo-Nazis and racists rioted in Dover at an anti-immigration protest yesterday. Clashes with anti-fascists early in the day saw people…

International left distracted by shiny new object

Jeremy Corbyn has already helped Leftists around the world forget their uncritical support of SYRIZA

A different five-year plan

This article is a response to a piece published by one of my union colleagues on some possible aspirations for the Sheffield Industrial Workers…

On the ‘social strike’: Contribution for the Plan C Fast Forward Festival September 2015

We send the following thoughts ahead of the Plan C festival hoping that it will…

Is intersectionality just another form of identity politics? - Feminist Fightback

Feminist Fightback take a class-based look at intersectionality and identity politics.

Refugees at sea, April 2015

Anti-fascists: Solidarity with Calais migrants!

In less than two weeks time hundreds of neo-Nazis and racists will descend on the coastal town of Dover calling for Britain to “close the border”…

Jake Prescott in 1971

An account of the Hull prison riot, 1976 - Jake Prescott

Former Angry Brigade member and prisoner Jake Prescott's account of the 1976 riot by prisoners in…