United Kingdom

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

Asda: part of the Wal-Mart spy ring

Following an admission from US supermarket giant Wal-Mart that the company has employed some of its estimated 400 investigators to spy on groups…

Private Equity: a vicious new breed?

Rob Ray looks at the recent manoeuvrings of Private Equity and asks what relevance its growth may have

Gordon Brown

TV Times - 12-18 May 2007

An embarrassment of riches is on offer in this weeks political programming.

Liverpool transport strike - 1911

Trade unionism and the class war - Guy Aldred

Pamphlet on class struggle and the unions by the anarchist-communist Guy Aldred.

Symbolic representation of the 33 degrees of freemasonry.

Freemasonry - its historic role

A brief history of the development of freemasonry, its relationship to politics, its mythology and its practice.

'The genius of the trade guilds going around the globe'

Trade guilds: Initiation through work - Andre Nataf

The origins of the guilds, their beliefs and practices. An informative brief survey, despite its conservative conclusion.

Evo Morales

TV Times - 5-11 May 2007

A broad variety of international political perspectives are on offer this week.

Up to 200,000 civil and public servants in mayday strike

UK civil and public servants across 200 government departments, agencies and non-departmental bodies…

Join the army: be depressed - anti-military recruitment flyer

Anti army-recruitment flyer in pdf format from April 2007 which focusses on the mental ill-health…

Poll tax riot

Poll Tax Rebellion by Danny Burns - reviewed by Wildcat (UK), 1993.

Wildcat (UK)'s review of Poll Tax Rebellion by Danny Burns.

Ricky Tomlinson - imprisoned building union organiser

Born into a working class family in Liverpool in 1939, Ricky Tomlinson was an active building union…

TV Times 28 April - 4 May 2007

A mixed bunch of disturbing and challenging political programming awaits this week.