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

NHS pay deal: too low, too slow, vote no!

Bristol Care Workers Network break down what the proposed NHS pay deal, being pushed by government and unions alike, really means for NHS staff…

Black Flag issue 210 cover "Drugs Death and Kropotkin"

Black Flag 210 (1996)

Issue of the London-based anarchist magazine Black Flag from the 1990s. Text below is partial contents only, taken from the old blackened.flag…

Wildcat at Orion

An in-depth report from the recent wildcat strike at the Orion recycling plant in East London. This report first appeared on Notes from Below.

Orion recycling plant workers, March 2018. Photo by Gordon Roland Peden.

Workers wildcat at East London recycling plant

United Voices union members at the Orion recycling plant in east London walked off the job this morning in a historic and inspiring wildcat…

Police massacre of striking Dunlop rubber plantation workers in Malaya

In December 1940 colonial police forces in Malaya arrested two strike leaders on suspicion of being…

Migrant cleaners in Living Wage victory against the Daily Mail

A group of migrant cleaners - who are members of the trade union United Voices of the World (UVW) -…

A series of interviews with working class women from west London - Part 4

The penultimate in our women's interview series: Meena talks about the sexism she has had to deal…

A series of interviews with working class women from west London - Part 3

We spoke with our friend Kulbir, a women worker originally from India, who has to survive below the…

Lecturers and support staff rebel as union pushes poor pension offer

University lecturers and support staff are rebelling against their union leadership after…

A series of interviews with working class women from west London - Part 2

AngryWorkers would like to share five stories of working women in the sprawling city of London in…

Solidarity 1913

Solidarity 1913

A reprint – within Solidarity for Workers’ Power, vol. 2, no. 1 (1962) – of a passage from the first issue of Solidarity: A Monthly Journal of Militant Trade Unionism produced by the…

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The radical history of Hackney blog

Archived backup of the excellent Radical history of Hackney, east London, blog.