United Kingdom

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

Galvanising the steel strike, 1980 - Solidarity

An article from Solidarity on the British Steel Corporation strike of 1980, which was one of the early blows of the Thatcher government against…

Strategy & Struggle: anarcho-syndicalism in the 21st century

Strategy and struggle - anarcho-syndicalism in the 21st century

A pamphlet produced in January 2009 by Brighton Solidarity Federation as a clarification of the…

Anti-social solidarity - MH

A short survey of some roots of the present economic crisis from a UK perspective - and the tasks ahead for both the ruling class and the working…

Car industry: more attacks on jobs and pay

A new wave of redundancies and pay cuts hits car manufacturing in the UK, as companies aim to take back the cost of the recession from the…

Hundreds of Polish workers join wildcat strikes

600 workers, including hundreds of Polish workers, have walked out from Langage Power Station near Plymouth in solidarity with the wildcat…

Police stand by as workers protest

Energy wildcats continue to spread across the UK

The wave of wildcat strike action that has swept across the UK escalated today as hundreds more workers walked out in the protest at the…

Tea Break 3 - oil refinery strikes, February 2009

A PDF of the February 2009 issue of the irregular workers' bulletin Tea Break, written and designed by users of libcom.org, for general…

‘British jobs for British workers’?

Construction workers’ anger against the employment of foreign labourers has boiled over. The revolt that started on Wednesday this week in…

Unofficial refinery walkouts 'over foreign workers' spread

An assessment of the spread of the refinery wildcat strikes - purportedly over the hiring of foreign…

Everything must go: household name Woolworths advertises its last ever sale

Reports on crisis 1: England - Wildcat

Wildcat asked people in several countries to write down observations about social effects of the crisis. The following is a report from London,…

Neo-liberals don't die, they just amortise

There has been a lot of talk on the left, and even in the mainstream media, about how neo-liberalism is dead or dying as the recession burns a…

Union bureaucrats: not looking out for their members

Interview with a disillusioned UK ex-full-time union official

‘RPG’ is an anarchist who worked for trade unions from 1986 until the spring of 2007. He talks to…