United Kingdom

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

2009: The strike at Lindsey refinery: a struggle entangled in nationalism

Mouvement Communiste's detailed account and analysis of the oil industry construction workers'…

Education and the nature of success

The first full blog post from Croydonian anarchist, describing (and critiquing) a talk recently put on by his school about being "successful".

Hidden victims of austerity

2011 has seen a massive increase in people registered as homeless and people sleeping rough. However, the governments housing minister Grant…

Introducing...

Hey there. I am the Croydonian Anarchist. This blog will be focusing around any political goings on at my sixth form that I attend (I'm in the second year, and just about to turn 18) which I…

Death to rank and filism!

The text below appeared in a short-lived project and one-off journal, entitled ‘Anti-Exchange and Mart’, produced in London in 1990. The article…

Kettling 2.0: The Olympic State of Exception and TSG Action Figures

A piece by Dan Hancox discussing the restrictions on free assembly, freedom of movement and the…

Degrading, de-humanising, and discredited: The UK prison pressure cooker on the boil

The UK prison population has reached yet another record high, and many of the issues that led to the…

Militant anti-fascism and the Occupy movement

A brief overview of the ideas behind militant anti-fascism, and why physically confronting the far-right is necessary. Aimed at people who've…

IWW cleaners picket

City of London Corporation cleaners say: Occupy Guildhall!

Cleaners are staging a sit in at the Corporation of London’s Guildhall in protest at the inadequate…

Class size matters... but money is tight.

The resistance to smaller class sizes in state schools boils down to one thing - economics.

Open letter to Occupy London from 2 working class old buggers - Two Former Miserabilists

An Open Letter To Occupy London from Two Working Class Old Buggers in an attempt to…

N30 strike march in Birmingham

Don't give up on the pensions fight

As trade unions look set to sell out their members once again, workers need to stand together in the fight over pensions and refuse to allow…