Beating back Mosley in Notting Hill, 1958 - Baker Baron A Notting Hill resident recounts his story of fighting racists and fascists in West London.
2001: Brighton bin men's strike and occupation A short history of a victorious strike and occupation of their workplace by contracted-out bin workers that was assisted by local residents.
1999: Dahl Jenson construction strike Immigrants demonstrated their willingness, when asked, to support British workers in struggle in this victorious strike of 300 building workers…
The Bacton Fashions strike, 1990 - Mark Metcalf An account of the 1990 strike in East London of mostly immigrant workers, which won several concessions for the workers and prevented the owner…
1988-1989: P&O seafarers' strike The history of P&O shipping workers who struck against wage and job cuts for 16 months. The company tried to break the strike, the government…
1937: The Clydeside apprentices’ strike The strong Scottish strike of apprentices which help turn them from isolated individuals with no employment rights into organised, unionised workers.
1932: Belfast Outdoor Relief Strike The Falls and the Shankhill united, Catholics and Protestants fighting together. That is the story of the Outdoor Relief Strike launched by the…
1926: British general strike A short history of Britain’s only ever general strike which lasted 10 days and was called in support of locked-out coal miners.
1919: The 40-hours strike The 40 Hours strike led by the Clyde Workers' Committee was the most radical strike seen on Clydeside in terms of both its tactics and its…
1915: The Glasgow rent strike The history of a months-long rent strike of 30,000 Glasgow residents against profiteering landlords, forcing the government to freeze rents for…
The great London dock strike, 1889 A huge and powerful strike of British dockers against low pay, unsafe conditions and casual, precarious employment contracts which, with…
1990-1991: The Gulf War Noam Chomsky on the 1991 US and UK war with Iraq following Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.