United Kingdom

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

Anna Mendleson

Mendleson, Anna, 1948-2009

Short bio of British writer, poet and political activist who was convicted of conspiracy to cause explosions as part of The Angry Brigade.

Story of the Syndicalist Workers Federation: Born in Struggle - Tom Brown

Tom Brown's 1968 description of the Syndicalist Workers' Federation, a UK based organization that…

Shiny new buildings: academies

Education’s Trojan horses: the thoughts of an academy school worker

Some thoughts of an academy school worker in England.

Granny Made Me An Anarchist: General Franco, the Angry Brigade and Me by Stuart Christie [Review]

Review of Stuart Christie's autobiography. In KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library No. 40, November 2004.

Some notes on the founding of the Kate Sharpley Library

From KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library No. 40, November 2004

cover of I Couldn't Paint Golden Angels by Albert Meltzer

I couldn't paint golden angels: Sixty years of commonplace life and anarchist agitation - Albert Meltzer

Autobiography of UK anarchist and print worker Albert Meltzer.

Interview with an anarchist Royal Holloway student occupier

Recently, the UK has seen the rise of a mass student movement in opposition to huge increases in…

The floodgates of anarchy - Stuart Christie and Albert Meltzer

This polemic approaches the subject of anarchism in relation to class struggle. It presents an…

Catalyst #25 - Newspaper of the Solidarity Federation

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

Notes on the violent minority

A text drafted during the November 2010 university occupations focussing on liberal ideology, state repression and the student movement.

Millbank

Hope Against Hope: a necessary betrayal - Nic Beuret

Comments on some of the contradictions within the 2010 UK student movement and its claims for a 'right to education'.

Messages of solidarity between students in the UK and Iran

In early December 2010, in the context of struggle against cuts and privatisation, students in university occupations at UCL, Manchester, Sheffield, SOAS, Brighton, Goldsmiths and Bath write a solidarity massage to Iranian students. A few days later, Iranian students inside the country as well as studying abroad respond.