United Kingdom

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

British Islamism: towards an anarchist response - Paul Stott

This article states that it "aims to kick-start a debate about how Anarchists should respond to the…

An anarchist bricklayer in Plymouth

Dave Chapple, Bridgwater, talks with Graham Short about his involvement in the movement...

Teachers and Council workers strike together in Tower Hamlets in March

The unions and the fight against austerity - Tom Denning

Tom Denning considers the current position of the unions in relation to the fight against public…

Track maintenance staff at work

Workmates: direct action workplace organising on the London Underground - Review

A review by Steven Johns of the Solidarity Federation pamphlet Workmates: direct action workplace…

The moral economy reviewed - E. P. Thompson

The follow-up article to E. P. Thompson's classic 'The moral economy of the English crowd in the 18th century' from the book Customs in common.

Winston Churchill and the "second front": a reappraisal - Tuvia Ben-Moshe

This article shows how Churchill's war strategy was determined by British soldiers' reluctance to…

Churchill's plans 'to drench Germany with poison gas' and anthrax - Robert Harris and Jeremy Paxman

'... It may be several weeks or even months before I shall ask you to drench…

Plaque on Deakin's house in Walsall

Deakin, Joseph Thomas 1858-1937

A short biography of Joe Deakin, anarchist ensnared in the Walsall bomb plot provocation

Class War 73 cover

Class War #73 1997

This was intended to be the last issue - explaining why most of the organisation decided to dissolve itself. Contents includes critiques of Class…

Revolution - an unfinished business

The Anarchist Federation on the 1997 disbanding of Class War Federation, and their analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the organisation.

UK Unmasked and the New Kids on the Bloc

Analysis by a member of the Anarchist Federation on the "March for the Alternative" (March 26th 2011) and the political trends expressed within…

We Will March... and then what?

Article from issue 6 of the Leveller on the We Will March student march in opposition to fees that was organised by the NUS-USI on the 6th April.