United Kingdom

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

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Bring the war to the streets - AYN art

Photographs of an anti-Iraq war art project carried out by some people involved in the Anarchist Youth Network in 2002 and 2003. Most may not…

Guy Aldred

Class War on the Home Front (PDFs)

Class War on the Home Front, a history of the Anti-Parliamentary Communist Federation, in printable PDF format.

Aims and principles of the Syndicalist Workers Federation

The Aims and principles of the Syndicalist Workers Federation, which was the British Section of the anarchosyndicalist International Workingmen's Association (IWA). For a history of the IWA see A short history of the IWA, 1922-Today on libcom.org/history

Riot police in Newcastle, Meadowell Estate, 1991

Hot time: Summer on the estates - Riots in the UK 1991-2

A short article on the various riots in the UK during 1991-92, focusing on the North of England,…

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Workers of the world tonight: international dockers struggles of the 1980s

BM Blob's pamphlet on the struggles of dock workers across the world during the 1980s.

Riot in St. Pauls, Bristol, 1980

Like a summer with a thousand Julys …and other seasons…

Expansive overview and analysis of the early 1980s strikes and riots in the UK.

1850-1994: The Battle for Hyde Park: ruffians, radicals and ravers

A timeline and radical history of rebellion, riots, sex and subversion in London's most famous park

Coventry post office picket line

Post office staff on strike in Coventry

Workers at the Post Office in Coventry were on strike Thursday over moves to shift services to WH Smith.

The Battle of Cable St, 1936 - Joe Jacobs

Joe Jacobs was in 1936 a local Communist Party activist in London's East End. This is his account of his involvement in the famous defence of the…

Virgin rail catering workers on strike

Manchester: 100 catering workers at Virgin Trains are on strike in support of a sacked colleague.

Boards not bombs

Anarchist Youth Network stickers

Some stickers which were produced by the Anarchist Youth Network between 2002 and 2004. The designers no longer think they are good, but they are…

Interview with a member of libcom.org, 2007

A critical interview by Wayne Foster of Steven Johns from the libcom group, about the libcom.org project and the general state of things.