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‘We Want Our Club Back!’: the Clapton Supporters Action Fund

Submitted by Ed on Mar 20 2016 23:03

Clapton FC's fans have gained notoriety in recent years: for their massive turnouts at non-league games, their dedication to anti-fascism, and their passionate singing from kick-off to the final whistle. Now they're challenging the club's owners in attempt to take over the club and put it under fan-ownership.

Pushing Dust: Work Report from Greenford Street Cleansing Gangs

Submitted by AngryWorkersWorld on Mar 8 2016 20:03

We look at the company structure, the work-mates, the re-structuring and how the trade union engages with it.

Olday, John, 1905-1977, aka Arthur William Oldag aka Fredrick Frostick aka Frank Allen aka Willi Freimann, aka Michael Peterson

Submitted by Battlescarred on Feb 25 2016 18:51
John Olday

A short biography of Scots-German anarchist John Olday

Battles on the Barbican: the struggle for trade unionism in the British building industry, 1965–7 - Charlie McGuire, Linda Clarke and Christine Wall

Submitted by Steven. on Jan 12 2016 12:34
Construction workers at the Barbican. Photograph by John Steeden.

History of the industrial disputes and workers' struggles on the Barbican construction site 1965-1967.

Building the Barbican 1962-1982: taking the industry out of the dark ages

Submitted by Anonymous on Jan 12 2016 12:25
Workers on the Barbican site, 1965

Fantastic pamphlet on the workers' struggles during the construction of the brutalist masterpiece the Barbican in central London. Told largely in the words of the workers themselves.

62 Fieldgate Street: yesterday, today and tomorrow - Mark Kauri

Submitted by Steven. on Jan 5 2016 18:35
Fieldgate Street in the 1970s

A look at the history of the building in East London where the London Action Resource Centre is based.

New Years Eve prison noise protests in London

Noise protest outside HMP Brixton in South London in 2014

On New Years Eve there are protests outside prisons across the world, we spoke a member of London Anarchist Black Cross about what's happening in London.

Mick Woods remembers Lewisham '77

Submitted by Ed on Nov 28 2015 22:36

A first-hand account of the 1977 Battle of Lewisham, in which the far-right National Front were routed by locals and anti-fascists, from a Sheffield socialist and railway worker.

The Battle of Lewisham: an anti-fascist's account - Martin Lux

Submitted by Ed on Nov 28 2015 21:36

A vivid and action-packed account of the Battle of Lewisham, written by Martin Lux and taken from his book Anti-Fascist.

Clapton Ultras

Submitted by JoeMaguire on Nov 22 2015 22:31
Dot Cotton

The Clapton Ultras have carved out something of a spectacle in East London at the Old Spotted Dog football ground, whilst managing to espouse progressive class politics and having fun at the same time.