United Kingdom

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

DAM and the trade unions

A DAM pamphlet from the 1980's outlining what is wrong with trade unionism, then a mass movement, and the anarcho-syndicalist alternative…

IWW cleaners at John Lewis in new pay dispute

On Monday 12th November 2012 the Industrial Workers of the World union (IWW) lodged a fresh pay dispute on behalf of outsourced cleaners at John…

Alexei Stakhanov

Stakhanovism and the British workers

Marie Louise Berneri's article on Stakhanovism and other methods imposed on workers in order to squeeze more productivity and profit out of them…

Centerprise black community bookshop evicted

The Black community bookshop. cafe and centre, Centreprise, in Dalston, East London was evicted last week.

British Indian troops under attack from Indonesian nationalists, November 1945.

British intervention in Asia

A Freedom article dated December, 1945 denouncing British intervention in Indonesia and Indo-China on behalf of Dutch and French colonialism and…

Fascists and state repression

Some brief observations regarding attitudes towards the repression of the far-right by state forces.

The ragged trousered philanthropists - Robert Tressell

A Marxist critique of society dressed up as a novel, Ragged Trousered Philanthrophists follows…

Diary of Virginia Woolf during the 1926 General Strike

Indifferent account of the 1926 General Strike by writer Virginia Woolf.

Diary of Margaret Woods during the 1926 General Strike

Diary account from a schoolgirl during the 1926 General Strike which is largely critical but…

Capitalist realism renewed - James Butler

James Butler responds to a Mark Fisher article on 'neo-anarchism'.

Ernest Bevin

Labour law and order

An article by Preston Clements for Freedom on the repeal of the Trades Dispute Act in 1946 and the reactionary nature of both the Labour Party…

Subversion #23

Issue 23 of the Manchester-based libertarian communist journal, Subversion. This issue focuses on class composition, with discussions about job centre workers and more.