United Kingdom

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

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Too Young to Go to War but Old Enough to be Executed

A short account of Herbert Burden, a 17 year old boy executed by the British Army for desertion during the First World War. Burden was among 306…

Squatting in London: Precarity and Emergency Crisis Planning

Due to sustained attacks from the state, councils, and property owners, squatters in England have…

Stitched Up

An account of working conditions and class relations in a small business.

'You can't build jobs on the corpses of innocents'

Eliza Egret and Tom Anderson speak with peace activist SAM WALTON about a daring raid he took part in to disarm a Yemen-bound warplane

Turkey will buy and sell weapons in London this September

Why Kurdish solidarity activists must oppose the DSEI arms fair “Every bomb that is dropped, every…

Justice for Rash - police kill a twenty year old black man in Hackney

Police chased Rash into a shop, then held him on the floor for several minutes. He stopped breathing…

Vagrant being punished in Tudor England

Bloody legislation against the expropriated

Karl Marx's short history of the violent legislation introduced by governments in Europe to force peasants removed from their land into wage…

Countryside illustration by Clifford Harper

A short history of enclosure in Britain

Simon Fairlie describes how the progressive enclosure of commons over several centuries has deprived most of the British people of access to…

Squat houses, Broughton Road, Hackney, 1983

Sisterhood and Squatting in the 1970s: Feminism, Housing and Urban Change in Hackney

A detailed look at squatting in 1970s Hackney, East London. Using oral history to recall how women…

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The British Anarchist Movement and the Russian Revolution

A short account of how British anarchists related to the Russian Revolution of 1917

Yarls Wood to St Bart's - Stop Serco

St Bart's Hospital strike continues

More than 700 cleaners, porters, and security staff at Barts NHS Trust in London are nearing the end of a 7 day strike for a pay increase of 30p…

Many faces! - Snapshots from distributing WorkersWildWest

During the distribution of WorkersWildWest we have had short conversations with various local…