United Kingdom

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

The Lancashire coalfield 1945-1972: NUM-Labour Party hegemony and industrial change

An article by Stephen Catterall on the colliery closures of the fifties and sixties in the…

The (other) reason I'm against electoralism

Most of the arguments against voting point out (rightly) that it achieves nothing. This is reflected in slogans such as "if voting changed…

Strike by DWP contractors

Balfour Beatty staff employed to work at DWP sites have struck today in a row over redundancies.

Kirkby rent strike, 1972

The Kirkby Rent Strike was a 14-month long rent strike initiated by 3,000 tenants on October 9, 1972 in the town of Kirkby, outside Liverpool,…

Street theatre

A brief examination of the performative nature of encoutners between fascist groups, such as the EDL and 'anti-fascist' groups such as UAF on the streets of the UK. With this we hope to…

S01E016 - Capitalist realism. In discussion with Mark Fisher

An edition of the Novara radio show in discussion with Mark Fisher, the author of 'Capitalist…

What happens to 'failing' academies?

We know what the government does with 'failing' schools; turns them into academies.... but what do they do with failing academies?

Report on demonstration against pay cuts 30/3/12

Originally posted at Carers Talk

'Work sucks' - Sisyphus

Beyond work - Nina Power

Nina Power on the need to not just resist workfare, but work as we know it.

Education round-up 1 April 2012

Short one cos it's easter. Just a bit on the next logical steps for the academies agenda.

Report: Combating workfare in Liverpool (31/3/2012)

A brief report on an anti-workfare event in Liverpool

1919 Liverpool Police strike - Pat O'Mara

Pat O'Mara's personal account of the police strike in Liverpool, August 1919 and the subsequent riot, taken from his autobiography The…