United Kingdom

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

The freedom of the press - George Orwell

George Orwell's original preface to Animal Farm about unofficial censorship of the press in the UK, a supposedly "democratic" country. In a…

Down and out in Paris and London - George Orwell

Tramping memoirs from Orwell, where he worked in Paris as a dishwasher and then travelled around London, going from one bedsit to another.

On prisons, screws – and their unions

An attempt to sketch out my attitude as an anarchist towards the prison system. Why do we oppose them? Why does our solidarity go to the jailed…

Jack Hayes, police union secretary, addresses strike rally on Tower Hill, 1918

A short history of the police strikes of 1918-1919 - Ken Weller

Ken Weller of Solidarity's brief history of the two strikes of London police officers during and…

Liverpool Against the Cuts occupy Liverpool City Council chamber

While delegates from Labour councils across the country met at the BT Convention Centre in Liverpool…

Northern Ireland flag protests the politics of distraction

On December 3rd Belfast City Council decided, by 29 votes to 21, to reduce the number of days the…

Vote Labour And Still Die Horribly cover

Vote Labour and still die horribly - Thames Valley Anarchists

Angry pamphlet from 1986 by Thames Valley Anarchists arguing for workers to self organise and take…

Tell us lies about the miners - Dave Douglass

An angry study of the UK media campaign of distortion and lies against miners during the great strike of 1984-5, written by one of the…

Justice for the Halesowen Four

Discontent has been brewing at Halesowen College, Birmingham, following the summary dismissal of no fewer than four Maths teachers in the last…

The Peace Gathering

Can't we all just get along? An apolitical response to political events in Belfast

A Belfast comrade writes about the "Peace Gathering", called in response to Loyalist protests about…

A post-mortem on the workplace committee that never was

A look at my recent experiences organising at work, and in particular how they've been undermined by…

A selection of covers from the Raven journal

The Raven: anarchist quarterly

Partial online archive of The Raven, a quarterly anarchist review published by Freedom Press for 43 issues from 1987-2003. Editors included…