United Kingdom

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

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…

Are the cuts necessary, and does it matter?

Oisín Mac Giollamóir responds to a debate on whether UK capitalism ‘needs’ to make the cuts.

A glimpse into the future of outsourced Britain - expensive, inefficient and on its way

Last month the government's spending watchdog, the Public Accounts Committee, published its report…

Cover of Modern Times 1988

On austerity in the 1980s - Modern Times

The concluding article from a one-off magazine produced in 1988, dealing with the Thatcherite austerities of the time and their consequences for…

The Angry Brigade - documents and chronology

Full text of a booklet about the British urban guerrilla group the Angry Brigade in the 1960s and 1970s containing timelines, communiques and…

McDonalds Workers Resistance aims and principles

The mission statement of UK group MWR.

McDonalds International Liberation Front (MILF) statement, 2002

Brief introduction statement to the MILF from the website of McDonalds Workers Resistance.