United Kingdom

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

Black liberation organisations in Britain: the 1970s and 1980s

Overview of the array of black liberation organisations active in Britain during the 1970s and 1980s…

Micky Fenn, docker, socialist and anti-fascist.

Dockers Against Racism: an interview with Micky Fenn

Interview with Micky Fenn, a socialist and trade unionist on the London Docks, discussing how he and other dock workers confronted racism among…

Who is Arming Turkey - A map of arms industry companies in the UK that profit from Turkey's war on the Kurds

Indian Workers' Association, Southall.

Asian workers' associations in Britain, 1956-1980s

Ron Ramdin on the history and development of autonomous Asian working-class organisation in postwar Britain, their activities and their…

Black Flag 225 (2005)

Issue of the London-based anarchist magazine Black Flag from 2005.

Chartists.

Chartism and the multi-ethnic proletariat

A short history on the influence of William Cuffay, a black tailor, and Irish Catholic workers in the Chartist movement and how the British…

Fighting On Home Turf: Community Politics & the IWCA

A Black Flag article on the working class community politics of the Independent Working Class Association (IWCA) from 2003.

Black Flag 223 (2003)

Issue of the London-based anarchist magazine Black Flag from 2003.

Dissecting the right's "free speech" rhetoric

An analysis of the reactionary co-option of the term "freedom of speech" in the age of Trump and Bolsonaro, and discussion of how best to respond…

Saturday's demo in London

Russia’s “anti-fascist” fascism is not a far-away, exotic reality. It’s here

What they said at the 19 January demonstration in London to support Russian anti-fascists

Article on Courtauld's Red Scar Mill strike in the Lancashire Evening Post.

The Courtaulds Red Scar Mill strike, 1965

A short history of the unofficial strike at Courtauld's Red Scar Mill in Preston, 1965, the first of what would become a long list of significant…

Radical Chains #4

Issue 4 of Radical Chains, cleaned up from the scan made by the Spirit of Revolt archive.