United Kingdom

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

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…

Gertrud Guillaume-Schack

Guillaume-Schack, Gertrud (1845-1903)

A short biography of the "Anarchist Countess" Gertrud Guillaume-Schack, active in the Socialist League.

Cameron Minshull

In memory of Cameron Minshull

Greater Manchester Hazards Centre and Families Against Corporate Killers statement on the death of Cameron Minshull, 16, at an engineering…

SWP's Tom Walker: Why I am resigning

A journalist at the Socialist Workers Party newspaper on his decision to quit following the way the grouping dealt with accusations of rape and…

My experience with the work programme so far

I was recently reffered onto the Work Programme by the Job Centre on very sketchy grounds. Yesterday I had my initial introductory group meeting…

Armoured vehicles protect scab deliveries during the general strike

The 1926 general strike in Hackney

Barry Burke's account of the UK general strike of 1926 in the East London borough of Hackney.

Rejecting the compulsory jobs guarantee and the left's work ethic

A look at Labour's compulsory jobs guarantee and the problematic narratives that inform the debate…

Theorizing Patriarchy - Silvia Walby

Theorizing patriarchy - Silvia Walby

Silvia Walby's 1990 book sets out a dual-systems approach to theorizing capitalism and patriarchy, synthesising Marxist and radical feminist…