United Kingdom

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

A bare finger removing a fascist sticker in Scotland - but what lies beneath?

Sticking with it: razorblades and anti-fascist folklore - F. Bear

Gwent Police have been instructing people not to remove offensive stickers. They want us to report…

The British General Strike: 1926 - Tom Brown

An article by Tom Brown on the 1926 general strike, which originally appeared in War Commentary Nov-Dec 1942. Republished as a pamphlet by…

The Arrogance of Uncontested Power - Laurens Otter

A pamphlet published by Laurens Otter of Wrekin Syndicalists examining the Hilda Murrell case, when a critic of the Thatcher government was…

Ruthless cuckoos in the dovecot - Henry Worthington

What really went wrong with the national alliance against the Gulf war? Henry Worthington reports a classic case of those opposing the war on principle being manipulated by those who were not. Anti-authoritarians should look out, it could happen again.

blake escapees photographed revisiting the prison walls

The Blake Escape: Michael Randle Interview

Black Flag interviews Mike Randle, one of the activists who freed George Blake from Wormwood Scrubs in 1966. (Interview from 1989)

Squaring Up To The Square Mile: A rough guide to the City of London

A booklet produced by Corporate Watch and Reclaim The Streets in April 1999, prior to the J18…

The Spies for Peace and after – Nicolas Walter

One of the definitive articles on Spies For Peace by one of the group's members, Nicolas Walter. Originally published anonymously in The Raven …

Beyond Counting Arses

Influential document produced by eight members of the London Committee of 100 in 1963, opposing bureaucracy and promoting direct action. The ideas expressed would feed into the work done by Spies For Peace in exposing "Regional Seats of Government" - secret bunkers for the rich and powerful in the event of nuclear war. According to Maurice Brinton, its authors were "radicals, mainly from or close to Solidarity".

The Crowbar #21 May 24th 1983

21st issue of Brixton based squatting newsletter Crowbar. Contents include: Save 121 Centre campaign, letters on voting and Copenhagen, Barrier…

The Crowbar #11 Dec 18th 1982

11th issue of Brixton based squatting newsletter Crowbar. Contents include: Crowbar respondes to expose in the Daily Telegraph, a pissed off…

The Crowbar #9 Nov 20th 1982

9th issue of Brixton based squatting newsletter Crowbar. Contents include: Fall of right wing Lambeth councillors, Railton Road rioters bailed,…

The Crowbar #8 Nov 6th 1982

8th issue of Brixton based squatting newsletter Crowbar. Contents include, evictions on Railton Road, squatters picket Lambeth Town Hall, letter:…