United Kingdom

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

Otto von Bismarck, great proletarian creator of the Welfare State

The welfare state isn’t now, and never was, a “genuine gain for the working class”.

In the 1880s Bismarck's social insurance programs - old age pensions, accident insurance, medical…

London Underground strike threat wins reinstatement for unfairly sacked driver

Six days of strikes on the London Underground by the RMT union have been called off after management…

Charting the class struggle

I was looking into the historical data on strike days in Britain for a feature in Catalyst, but there's a lot more to discuss than we could fit…

Catalyst #27 - Newspaper of the Solidarity Federation

Catalyst - the 8-page tabloid from the Solidarity Federation.

J30: It's on

Steve Ryan on the upcoming day of co-ordinated strike action by public sector trade unions, due to take place on the 30th of June.

Back to Bax - Radical Chains

Belfort Bax belonged to the first generation of British Marxists. He was the philosopher who introduced William Morris to dialectics. From…

Pit sense or no sense?

Subversion review Pit Sense Versus the State - a history of militant miners in the Doncaster area, by David John Douglass, published by Phoenix Press.

Cover of subversion #13

Subversion #13

Issue of Subversion from late 1993 with articles about the unions, teachers' struggles, the Timex dispute, Bosnia, prisoners and more.

Uniting our struggles

Subversion look at a variety of struggle is going on in 1993 and suggest ways for workers to unite their struggles at a grassroots level.

Subversion #14

Issue of Subversion from 1994 with articles about the war in Ireland, SWP and militant, trade unionism, the media and more.

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Workmates: direct action workplace organising on the London Underground

In the late 1990s, plans to outsource track maintenance on the London Underground were being pushed…

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