This series: The Northern Ireland crisis of 1968-9 and the left (Part 6, section 2) Click here to read section 1 of this article. Next article in this series: Part 7: The end of the old order in Northern Ireland Bernadette Devlin Speaks for the Workers Republic.
An overview of the UK's 1979 "Winter of Discontent" strike wave, from the Revolt Against an Age of Plenty site. Subtitled History and class consciousness in the UK, this article was written around 2002. [A considerably revised 2012 version of this text is here; http://libcom.org/history/delightful-measures-changed-reflections-1978-79-winter-discontent#comment-511644]
Full text of a booklet about the British urban guerrilla group the Angry Brigade in the 1960s and 1970s containing timelines, communiques and contextual information.