United Kingdom

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

IWGB picket

IWGB strike action at the University of London

Outsourced workers at the University of London’s Central Administration, employed by Cofely GDF-Suez, will be striking this Monday to Wednesday,…

PCS General Secretary Mark Serwotka

PCS hangs militant rep out to dry in HP dispute

The Public and Commercial Services Union has in the past year worked to sabotage a dispute between its members at Hewlett Packard and their…

People died for your right, not your obligation

2014 and 2015 are, in a row, two big years for electoralism. I'm already fed up with it.

“What was all the fuss about?” My recent experiences of unemployment

One libcom poster's account of a spell of unemployment, and having to jump through the bureaucratic…

Some thoughts for the coming year…

A member of Portsmouth Anti-Fascists takes an interesting look at the situation British anti-fascists find themselves in, the enemy we find…

Solidarity national group paper

Archive of Solidarity/Solidarity for self-management, the national paper of the UK libertarian socialist group, Solidarity published from 1977…

Asian children play in Bradford.

'You're different, you're one of us': the making of a British Asian

Interesting interview with a Sikh man who grew up in Manningham, Bradford, and was one of the…

AYM members from Bradford, Sheffield and Birmingham.

The politics of Britain's Asian Youth Movements - Anandi Ramamurthy

Excellent study into the politics of the Asian Youth Movements, groups of radical working class…

Christopher Alder: death in custody

In light of the recent ‘lawful killing’ verdict in the Mark Duggan case, and the increased interest around the conduct of police, deaths in…

Who’s manipulating anyway?

An analysis of David Leppard and Kevin Dowling’s latest attempt to smear anarchists in the Sunday Times

Curzon cinema

Curzon workers win union recognition

Curzon cinema workers have won union recognition after a high profile campaign as an agreement was reached between union officials and Curzon…

Lies, slaughter, capital: The 2011 NATO intervention in Libya, part two

As discussed in part 1, the intervention was not undertaken for humanitarian reasons, but then why? …