United Kingdom

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

LSE: what it is and how we fought it

A pamphlet detailing student activism in the 1960s at the London School of Economics, culminating in a campaign of direct action and occupations…

How to deal with the SWP

Some advice for libertarian activists on working in campaigns alongside the Socialist Workers Party.

Working in universities, living with the axe

Part of a leaflet for the November 10 demonstration against education cuts, arguing that the cuts are nothing new or unique to the Tories, but they can still be beaten.

Carry on recruiting! Why the Socialist Workers Party dumped the 'downturn' in a 'dash for growth'

An analysis of the Socialist Workers Party, the most significant grouping in the UK…

Made in Dagenham, directed by Nigel Cole

Its producers claimed inspiration from resistance to injustice, but this film’s sentimental spin is fundamentally flawed.

Heinz beanz is being really meanz

Alfred Stevens of Communist Students on the ongoing dispute at Heinz's factory in Wigan, Greater Manchester.

The Lindsey refinery wildcat strike

The red shoots of resistance? Recession struggles in the UK

Article written in 2009 examining key workers' struggles in the UK as the recession took hold,…

Fire outside Parliament

This is Actually Happening

Escalate Collective on the anti-cuts movement that emerged following the storming of Millbank.

Mosley with his Blackshirt supporters, 1930s

Newcastle fights the fascists

Account of the 1934 routing of fascists in Newcastle, England, by Albert Meltzer and Tom Brown.

The terrible cover of fascist Joe Owen’s’ terrible autobiography

Action! Race War to Door Wars [Review]

Refutation by a former Anti Fascist Action member on some of the "facts" from a book by a former British National Party member.

In the eye of the beholder [Review, The Angry Brigade by Gordon Carr]

Review of the book, The Angry Brigade: a history of Britain's first urban guerilla group

The angry brigade : the cause and the case. [Review]

Short review of the book, The Angry Brigade: The Cause and the Case.