United Kingdom

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

You fire the worker, we fire the boss – organising at the Showroom Cinema, Sheffield

A participant's account and critical reflections on an Industrial Workers of the World organising…

Struggle as a second language - interview with Tower Hamlets College strikers

An interview with two workers involved in the open-ended strike against cuts at Tower Hamlets…

Chatterton portrait & a cover of The Scorcher

Chatterton, Dan autobiography

Written a few years before he died, Chatterton describes his time as a lifelong London working class radical and revolutionist.

No God, No Devil. No Heaven, No Hell - Dan Chatterton, The Scorcher (1894)

Chatterton's call for an end to religion, the abolition of Monarchy, Parliament, "the entire…

The Abolition of the Queen, Lords and Commons - Dan Chatterton, The Scorcher

Addressed to the Prime Minister of the day - Chatterton's Communist programme for overthrowing the…

Liberty (front cover)

Liberty: A journal of anarchist communism

Archive of the journal, Liberty founded in London in 1894 by James Tochatti and Louisa Sarah Bevington.

Anarchism in England one hundred years ago - Max Nettlau

A short but important article by the celebrated anarchist historian (and historian of anarchism) Max…

The Need For Industrial Unity: a question of anarchist organisational imperative

An article on organisation by Liberty & Solidarity, which we disagree with completely and find the tone rather pompous, but reproduce here for reference.

Teaching the leadership of the working class

We must win; we can't win; how we will win

A quite appalling and ridiculous appeal to socialists to mimic capitalist leadership models by Nick Durie of Liberty & Solidarity.

Keeping Occupied - Living on the Ocean Estate in Stepney Green

An interesting personal account of squatting on an estate in Tower Hamlets, east London.

Anarchism as a Brand

Article from Liberty & Solidarity arguing for the rejection of the use of the word "anarchism", with which we disagree but reproduce here for…

Resistance is fertile - the Common Ground Community Garden in Reading

A detailed personal account of the setting up of an occupied community garden in Reading in 2007,…