United Kingdom

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

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Anarchy magazine (series 2)

Complete online archive of the second series of Anarchy magazine, published by the Anarchy Collective in London in the 1970s and 1980s in 38…

PAMSU website goes live as union announces living wage campaign

The Pret a Manger Staff Union, formed in London when a group of workers got sick of management…

IWW victory! John Lewis cleaners win pay rise

The industrial Workers of the World are proud to announce their victory in their latest John Lewis cleaners' campaign. On Friday 16 November, the…

A government at war with living standards

Apparently we're in an economic war. Who with, and to what end?

Educate, disempower, destroy

The Imaginary Party on the NUS, the prospects for higher education and students and how the latter can organise around their material interests.

HMRC staff in Coventry during rank-and-file led action on 14 November

The trade unions and the "crisis of leadership" narrative

The ongoing struggle against austerity have brought into focus the differences between the "left"…

1926 general strike photo gallery

Photos and documents from the British general strike of 1926. Taken from Woolf Online.

IWW John Lewis cleaners win pay rise

Cleaners at contractor ICM working in John Lewis stores in London, who are members of the Industrial Workers of the World revolutionary union,…

Industry insight: a spark's view

A SolFed member who has worked as an electrician since the late 1970s shares his experience of the electric supply industry, privatisation and…

Once upon a time there was a place called Nothing Hill Gate…

A personal account covering 20 years of working class history in Notting Hill, including the…

Anarcho-syndicalism: history and action

A pamplet by DAM about the organisation, the history of syndicalism in the UK and the rebirth of anarcho-syndicalism. Scanned by and gratefully…

IWW cleaners at John Lewis to ballot for industrial action

On Wednesday 14 November 2012, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) announced their intention…