Bores Under the Floor: A Brief Guide to the Wave of "Left" Groups and Newspapers currently invading the Pit Villages Report on the nature and impact of socialist and anarchist groups during the 1984…
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…
Jenny Tells Her Tale: Stories From the Yorkshire Miners Memories of the 1984-5 miners' strike from Jenny Dennis, who was married to a Kiveton Park miner…
The headscarf revolutionaries - DD Johnston D.D. Johnston reviews Brian Lavery’s The Headscarf Revolutionaries, an account of a spontaneous campaign by fishermen’s wives in Hull, which…
Sheffield strikes back, occupy tallest university building in the UK Sheffield Strikes Back, a newly formed broad left group of Sheffield students, have occupied the…
Huddersfield 2 trial adjourned because of CPS incompetency. Update on the case of the Huddersfield 2.
Mid Yorkshire health strike Prolongued strike action in West Yorkshire hospitals has shown that attacks by the bosses can be fought off.
Support the Huddersfield 2 On 26th July two local anarchists are to be tried at Huddersfield Magistrates Court after they were arrested at an Anti-Bedroom Tax demonstration…
The General Strike in York, 1926 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 A contemporary article by David Nicoll on the Featherstone massacre and the futility of parliamentary politics. On 7th September, 1893, locked…
Yorkshire journalists to strike over job losses Journalists in Leeds are to hold two four-day strikes over job cuts.