United Kingdom

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

Conversations about domestic work

A lot of our work-mates live in shared housing, ‘patch-work families’ and other domestic set-ups. This questionaire is meant as a guideline for…

Workers protest at Curzon London Mayfair, 2013.

"Using the pay rise as a weapon": A statement from Curzon Workers

In a time that's seeing strikes at cinemas across London, Curzon has so far not yet been affected. …

Cleaners at luxury car dealer protest suspensions after strike vote

Cleaners at a Ferrari showroom in London's richest borough were suspended without pay this week…

Lettings agency makes threats and keeps deposit of tenant with young children: Brighton SolFed opens dispute

Hot on the heels of their recent victory against MTM lettings, Brighton Solidarity…

Union suspends bin strike again

Unite union have suspended the bin strike again, after a court granted an interim injunction against the Birmingham council.

Sign on picket line in Birmingham bin strike, 2017.

4 ways Labour are attacking the working class right now

As the Labour Party conference gets underway, left-wing media personalities, public intellectuals…

Revelry at an inn

The century of revolution, 1603-1714

Christopher Hill's grassroots history of 17th-century England, as the modern state began to take shape.

Jack Buckby at Waters' campaign launch

Ex-BNP activist authored manifesto for UKIP leadership hopeful

An ex-British National Party (BNP) activist authored the manifesto of Anne Marie Waters, the far…

Diggers illustration

Cotters and squatters: housing's hidden history

Colin Ward's Cotters and Squatters explores the story of squatter settlement in England and Wales: from our cave-dwelling recent ancestors to the…

Anarchism and the British warfare state: the prosecution of the 'war commentary' anarchists, 1945

Article by Carissa Honeywell, published in 'International Review of Social History'…

Council lies mean Brum bin strike extended til Christmas

Refuse collection workers in Birmingham have voted strongly in favour of extending strike action for…

Impossibilism - Jon White's reading guide

A guide to further reading around the subject of impossibilism.