United Kingdom

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

Network Rail dispute: Railway signallers vote for strike action

Following in the wake of votes for strike action by railway maintenance workers and supervisors,…

BA strikes: Management ups its bullying as the dispute goes international

With strikes at BA looming this weekend, management has furthered its attacks on the workforce,…

Railway maintenance workers vote to strike, further action brewing in the industry

RMT members have voted strongly for strike action, in what stands to be the first national strike of…

Sussex students occupy in defiance of High Court injunction

Following a large demonstration against the suspension of the Sussex 6, hundreds of students have…

Stonehenge and the Neolithic Counter-revolution - Lionel Sims

Lionel Sims says that Stonehenge can only be understood properly in the context of the defeat of…

Tom Barclay

Barclay, Tom, 1852-1933

A short biography of Tom Barclay, a founder of the Socialist League in Leicester.

Common Words and the Wandering Star, by Keith Armstrong

Tom Jennings is grateful for this comprehensive documentation of its author’s efforts to keep Jack…

Should Brighton vote Green?

With Caroline Lucas set to stand in Brighton this May [2010], many workers tired with the Labour-Tory status quo may be tempted. But is voting…

Westminster University occupied in the fight against cuts

Mark Thomas

Crap Comrades; Mark Thomas has had enough of the SWP

Written in 2003 in part a reaction to the antics of the SWP (Socialist Workers Party) inside the then campaign against the Iraq war (under the…

Karl Marx on the transition from feudalism to capitalism - Claudio.J.Katz

A useful summary of the argument that the class struggle of the peasantry was crucial in the…

Lindsey German

An open letter to members and ex-members of the SWP

A contribution to the debate about recent events in the SWP, aiming to offer some advice and encouragement to members and ex-members feeling…