United Kingdom

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

The battle of Millbank and occupation at Manchester University

A personal account of the NUS demonstration against fees and education cuts on the 10th November…

Photo by Henry Langston

The students are revolting - report on the occupation of Millbank Tower

A report on the demonstration and attack on the Tory headquarters by students and education workers…

Students smash Tory headquarters

A first person report of the 10 November demonstration against huge hikes in university tuition fees which ended in the occupation and vandalism…

The Clapham Grand

Bar humbug: the new shape of work

Pete Wright describes his experience of one job in his career as a precarious bar worker...

Class War Comix

Class War Comix - Clifford Harper

The first chapter of a projected graphic novel by the English cartoonist and anarchist, published in 1979.

An academy school

Opposing academies and "free" schools - Education Workers Network

A brief introductory leaflet on Academies and Free Schools by the Education Workers Network…

Notes from an FBU picket line

Joe Thorne reports back from the front lines of the London firefighters strike against mass sackings and shift pattern changes.

Fire Brigade: Will London burn?

The inside story of what is really happening in the London Fire Brigade, as told to The Commune.

Striking firefighter hospitalised by station manager

One firefighter has been airlifted to hospital and three others injured after a station manager drove his car through a picket line.

UK Workplace News Roundup - October 2010

Recent industrial news from the UK, including the Firefighters Strike, The ongoing Astrazeneca dispute in Macclesfield, and more.

A nation of scroungers?

Following up on the Tories' campaign promise to "cut benefits for those who won't work", the government has unveiled a raft of measures to target…

In and against the state

Book from 1979 discussing the experience of working class people, mostly socialists, in working within the public sector in the late 1970s, or…