United Kingdom

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

Royal Sussex County Hospital - fighting closure

Anger at cuts as £500m NHS surplus found

Union leaders today reacted angrily to the news that the NHS has underspent by £500m as a result of aggressive cuts imposed by Patricia Hewitt,…

Tesco truckers' strike: 25% of normal loads going out

Only 25 per cent of normal truckloads of groceries and supplies are getting out of the Tesco…

Hizbollah militants

TV Times - 26 May - 1 June 2007

Timor, India, Beirut and Romania are all featured in this weeks viewing choices.

Successor: J18 followed the Stop The City demonstrations

The Stop The City demonstrations, 1983-1984

A short account of the Stop the City demonstrations of 1983 and 1984 which were described as a 'Carnival Against War, Oppression and Destruction…

Tesco distribution director Laurie McIlwee: not a happy chappy

Scots truckers strike against Tesco

Eddie Stobart drivers have refused to scab on their Tesco counterparts and deliver supplies to Scottish supermarkets this bank holiday weekend.

Rubbish piles up in Breckland

Bin workers fight cuts with unofficial work to rule

Refuse collectors in Breckland began taking on-the-job action on Monday in a dispute over job cuts.

A parking attendant

Parking attendants wildcat in Manchester

A wildcat strike by parking attendants in Manchester over a sub-inflation pay offer has cost the employer thousands of pounds in unissued fines.

Libcom's Eye-Spy at the Anarchist Bookfair

Libcom's own version of the popular in-car children's game involving regular sights at the annual Anarchist Bookfair in London.

Open meeting to set up a London anarchist youth network - meeting minutes

The minutes of a meeting of the organisationalist/class struggle tendency within the London…

Workers' riot in George Square, centre of Glasgow, 1919

Glasgow and the Wobblies

The Industrial Workers of the World's influence in Glasgow is not so well known, but it had considerable influence on the shop stewards movement…

A review of Joe Jacob's 'Out of the Ghetto' - Al Richardson

A review of the late Joe Jacob's excellent autobiography. Growing up in London's Jewish East End, Joe was variously a Communist Party militant, anti-fascist, Trotskyist, and in his later years a member of the Solidarity libertarian socialist group.

Poll Tax Riot

TV Times - 19-25 May 2007

A major theme this week is analysis of countries in the East with documentaries on the Middle East, China and Kosovo/Serbia.