United Kingdom

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

A. Sivanandan pictured second from left at a meeting of Race Today

Poverty is the new Black - A.Sivanandan

Ambalavaner Sivanandan on the history of racism in Britain and its roots in slavery, colonialism and capitalism taken from the Institute of Race…

Malcolm X, Smethwick, and the influence of the African American freedom struggle on British race relations in the 1960s

An essay by Joe Street detailing Macolm X's trip to Smethwick, Birmingham in the…

Obi B. Egbuna, C. L. R. James and the birth of black power in Britain: Black radicalism in Britain 1967–72

R.E.R. Bunce's essay on the political direction black British radicalism took in…

“Britain is no longer white”: James Baldwin as a witness to Postcolonial Britain

An essay by Rob Waters on James Baldwin's time in and reflections on Britain.

50 Years of Equal Exploitation?

29 May marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Equal Pay Act 1970, precipitated by the Ford sewing machinists’ strike in 1968 which started in…

New UK initiative - Founding conference

Stuff the DWP (don't want us to know)

New pamphlet published by Liverpool SolFed by benefits claimants, for claimants: Stuff the DWP! (doesn't want us to know). Covering our most…

Header from an issue of Direct Action

Direct Action: Paper of the Syndicalist Workers' Federation (1950s-1970s)

Online archive of Direct Action, a monthly paper produced by the Syndicalist Workers' Federation…

State Control is not Socialism

According to Tom Harris in The Daily Telegraph on 17 March, “we are all socialists now”.

"All in this Together"? A Sick Joke

The myth that we’re all in this together is already wearing thin. COVID-19 has come after ten years of grinding austerity characterised by the…

Direct Action: Paper of the Direct Action Movement (1980s)

Online archive of over 75 issues of Direct Action, an anarcho-syndicalist paper produced by the…

Guillaume Faye's Why We Fight and Archeofurism (covers)

What's on Michael Gove's bookshelf? (And why it matters)

Daily Mail journalist and Michael Gove’s wife, Sarah Vine, spent Sunday evening tweeting photos of…