United Kingdom

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

The Spirit of '45, directed by Ken Loach

This elegy to the gains for ordinary people made in the UK after 1945 – now largely clawed back – fails to inspire due to its lack of analysis of…

Social cleansing in Tower Hamlets: interview with Balfron Tower evictee - James Butler

James Butler interviews Sara, a single-parent in Tower Hamlets, East London, which illustrates the…

Solidarity motor bulletin #06: Struggles at Ford, Halewood & Valencia

Solidarity bulletin on the struggles of Ford workers at Halewood in the UK and Valencia in Spain in 1976.

Angry Workers of the World - AWW #2 - On struggles in the health sector - Out now!

AWW #2 on struggles in the health sector...

Solidarity motor bulletin #01: Ford struggle 73

Solidarity motor bulletin about workers' struggles at Ford across Europe and Australia in 1973.

Solidarity motor bulletins

A series of bulletins from UK libertarian socialist group, Solidarity, from the 1970s about the global car manufacturing industry, produced…

Bring back British Rail sticker

Don't bring back British Rail

Rail fares increase every year but this time a coalition of leftists, trade unionists and passenger groups took the opportunity to launch a…

Image by Royal Art Lodge

1 in 2 and 77.7p - gender, disability, violence and pay gaps

This post is the first in a series briefly looking at feminism and disability, analysing the impact…

Radical America #19.02-3: The British miners strike 1984-85

Dawkins and liberal racism

Dawkins and liberal racism

Some quick comments on the latest 'shit Dawkins says on Twitter' row.

Kier staff ballot for strike action

Kier building maintenance workers are balloting for strike following the construction giant's plan to delay paying its workforce.

1981 and 2011: from social democratic to neoliberal rioting - Paul Gilroy

Very little historical analysis has focused directly on the wave of urban rioting that spread across…