United Kingdom

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

Downhills Save Our School song

Parents, workers and pupils at Downhills Primary School have recorded a song by the pupils and supporters in opposition to attempts to force them…

Anarchist Seeds Beneath the Snow - David Goodway

Broad look at the theory and writers of British class struggle anarchism from turn of the century utopians to contemporary ecologists.

Parliament Square

Not related to education but I felt compelled to get this off my chest.

Unemployed Unite

National Unemployed Workers Movement image gallery

A selection of pamphlet covers, leaflets and photos from the NUWM movement of the 1920s and 1930s in the Britain.

Education round-up 14/1/12

Gove wants to make sacking teachers easier. No-notice inspections by Ofsted. Downhills struggle continues.

The Angry Brigade: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Britain's First Urban Guerilla Group (Documentary)

The complete documentary.

Chinese police

Political policing in China and around the world

The last year seems to have seen a rise in the Chinese government cracking down on political activists, seemingly in response to the threat of…

Temps: not quite yet equal

The UK agency workers regulations: an opportunity to organise

A blog entry about the new laws giving agency staff some equal rights with permanent staff, and how…

A radical history of 121 Railton Road, Lambeth

The story of the first successful squatters of private property in Lambeth. In 1972, Olive Morris and Liz Turnbull, both members of the Brixton…

Brixton Black Panthers Movement

An short history of the Brixton Black Panther Movement which, though short lived, worked to combat racial oppression, police brutality,…

Book review - Poplar; Lessons of a historical struggle

Alan Woodward of the Radical history Network reviews Janine Booth's "Guilty and Proud of it: Poplar…

Proposed Glastonbury Tesco site is occupied

After years of bullying locals, Tesco have finally been given permission by bureaucrats to build a new Tesco in Glastonbury on the site of a…