United Kingdom

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

Taking on the #TradeUnionBill

Expanding on my previous post on the subject, an in depth look at the provisions of the Tory government’s proposed Trade Union Bill and how it…

Rudolf Rocker: anarchist missionary (1873-1958) - W.J. Fishman

A biography by W.J. Fishman of Rudolf Rocker, a German anarcho-syndicalist.

Responding to Evening Standard bollocks on the tube strike

A commuter's rant about the (unsurprisingly) anti-worker coverage of the tube strike by the Evening…

Building workers' power in the United Kingdom - New Syndicalist

A column by New Syndicalist describing the recent growth of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW…

DPAC occupy Parliament

Disabled People Against Cuts storm British parliament

This week severely disabled people from the activist group Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC)…

A creepy professor meme

Against students - Sara Ahmed

Student activism - especially feminist and anti-racist activism - is conflated with neoliberalism and managerialism in order to be dismissed out…

The Fighting-call bulletin

Online archive of Fighting-call, a Spanish workers' journal of the Freedom Group and Anti-Parliamentary Communist Federation with information…

The Mold riots: The summer of ‘69

The story of the 1869 riots in Mold, Wales. Following a trial in which miners were convicted of assaulting their manager, soldiers fired on angry…

Marchers in London standing behind a banner saying 'End Austerity Now'

20 June: the beginning of what?

Saturday 20 June saw up to 250,000 people march in London under the banner ‘End Austerity Now.’ But four years on from the first ‘March for the…

Warehouse-spotting! Short Reports from AngryWorkers Northern Tour…

Four reports from short visits at different warehouses in Manchester, Leeds, Bradford area.

Positive affect as coercive strategy: conditionality, activation and the role of psychology in UK government workfare programmes

A journal article on the use of psychology in workfare to erase the experience and effects of social and economic inequalities and to construct a psychological ideal that links unemployment primarily to psychological deficit. This, in turn the authors argue, authorises the extension of state — and state-contracted — surveillance to psychological characteristics.

Steam from power plant cooling towers

6 ways to fight climate chaos

What can we do about a problem as big as climate change? Here are six ideas.