United Kingdom

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

The evolution of Brighton Solfed, if Banksy drew it.

The penguin history of Brighton SolFed-thought

A brief and incomplete account of the evolution of ‘Brighton SolFed thought’, so if you don’t get what we’re on about you might have some context…

Winning the argument or winning the fight?

Shane Mason argues that winning the argument about cuts is all very well but society "is not a debating chamber but a power struggle between different groups with competing interests" - and we should fightback accordingly.

How the Big Society really looks

Miliband vs Cameron on the Big Society

Today we have not one but two theses on the Tory "Big Society" concept. In the Guardian, David Cameron defends it while in The Independent, Ed…

Training and the union bureaucrats

When the TUC gets training it makes a bundle - and the bureaucrats it teaches probably aren't doing us many favours.

Wapping' 86: a photo essay - Nic Oatridge

A short booklet about the 1986 Wapping dispute at News International, containing a good set of photographs.

Crisis in care: Interview with an anarchist support worker

An interview with a support worker in Sheffield about the problems in social care as a result of the…

Parker, William Brand, c.1855- 193?

A short biography of William Brand Parker (usually known as W.B. Parker), anarchist active in the Socialist League who later moved to the ILP and pro-war politics.

Student radicals: An incomplete history of protest at the University of Sussex, 1971-75

Ed Goddard of libcom.org presents the history of student radicalism at the University of Sussex in…

Manchester Class Struggle Forum - Fighting the Austerity Agenda

After an extended holiday the Manchester Class Struggle Forum will hold it's next discussion meeting…

Anarchist Communism in plain English – Leonard Augustine Motler

Anarchist Communism in plain English – Leonard Augustine Motler

A short pamphlet produced by Leonard Motler in 1919.

Front page of Freedom (October 1886)

Freedom (October 1886)

The first-ever issue of Freedom newspaper, subtitled A journal of anarchist socialism, dated October 1886.

Motler, Leonard Augustine, 1888-1967

A short biography of Leonard Motler, English anarchist, deaf mute and activist against the First World War.