The Pickles Papers
In October 1988 Eric Pickles and his Tory group took control of Bradford Council with a radical programme designed to "wipe out municipal socialism forever". The story behind the "Bradford Revolution" is the story of Eric Pickles - now an ambitious Tory M.P. and shadow minister with a safe seat. It is a story of intrigue and double-dealing, ambition and power, sex and money, conspiracy and corruption, betrayal and blackmail! Taken from the 1 in 12 Publications archive.
Jenny Tells Her Tale: Stories From the Yorkshire Miners
Submitted by R Totale on Jul 30 2019 18:49
Memories of the 1984-5 miners' strike from Jenny Dennis, who was married to a Kiveton Park miner. Covering a range of subjects including the links the strike made with autonomous movements across Europe.
Content note: this text mentions sexual abuse and state violence, and contains some language that would now be considered dated.
The headscarf revolutionaries - DD Johnston
Submitted by DD on May 11 2015 09:54
D.D. Johnston reviews Brian Lavery’s The Headscarf Revolutionaries, an account of a spontaneous campaign by fishermen’s wives in Hull, which following the 1968 triple-trawler disaster forced major changes to UK shipping laws.
Sheffield strikes back, occupy tallest university building in the UK
Submitted by working class s... on Dec 3 2013 18:22
Sheffield Strikes Back, a newly formed broad left group of Sheffield students, have occupied the Arts Tower – the tallest university building in the United Kingdom.
Huddersfield 2 trial adjourned because of CPS incompetency.
Submitted by Glimmer on Jul 31 2013 18:43
Update on the case of the Huddersfield 2.
Mid Yorkshire health strike
Submitted by Glimmer on Jul 23 2013 20:41
Prolongued strike action in West Yorkshire hospitals has shown that attacks by the bosses can be fought off.
Support the Huddersfield 2
Submitted by Glimmer on Jul 21 2013 19:54
On 26th July two local anarchists are to be tried at Huddersfield Magistrates Court after they were arrested at an Anti-Bedroom Tax demonstration on 6th April this year. The arrests occurred after the pair were involved in an peaceful occupation of Barclays Bank in protest at the corruption of the banking system which caused austerity.
The General Strike in York, 1926
Submitted by jonthom on Feb 22 2013 14:21
Leaflet produced by the University of York's Borthwick Institute detailing the 1926 General Strike and its how it played out in the City of York.
The road to Wigan Pier - George Orwell
Orwell's examinations of the conditions for the working class in the north of England prior to World War Two and how he became a socialist.
Bullets for bread! the Featherstone massacre
Submitted by wojtek on Mar 3 2012 19:47
A contemporary article by David Nicoll on the Featherstone massacre and the futility of parliamentary politics. On 7th September, 1893, locked-out miners in the pit town of Featherstone, West Yorkshire confronted their bosses. In response, troops were called in and they proceeded to fire on the workers. Published in the The Anarchist: A Revolutionary Journal of Anarchist Communism.
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