Prime Minister’s Question this week, took place in the aftermath of the clearance of Occupy London Stock Exchange’s camp at St Paul’s, and comments from Len McCluskey praising the idea of civil disobedience during the London Olympics. Also embarrassing news as Labour’s “Red” Ken Livingstone is alleged to be avoiding tax payments somewhat like his [...]
Read more →By Lance Goodey
I arrived around 11am and found my friends and a group of around 50+ Anti-Fa, including a sound system waiting. There was a heavy police presence, but no Section 60 in force, which surprised me.
There was a loose line of police cordoning off the bottom of St Enoch’s Square, but I just walked through [...]
From Traveller Solidarity Network
Tony Ball, leader of Basildon Council and architect of the Dale Farm eviction, was forced to flee an awards ceremony by angry protesters in central London last night.
By Rochelle Bugg / @RochelleBugg
I’m not writing this looking for attention or sympathy (given what my sisters and I are facing neither of those come anywhere close to being useful. Unless they can make mum better or bring our dad back to life we’re not that bothered).
By @Justinthelibsoc
At Kilmorie Primary School, around 200 local residents attended a Lewisham Police co-ordinated meeting about the shooting of British Ghanaian man by the police. I attended the meeting only in the last 40 minutes but I was told by another attendee that: the police could answer no questions on the specific circumstances as the [...]
From ALARM
On the 9th of February 2012 a janitor found the body of Nikita Kalin, a Russian anarchist and anti-fascist. Nikita was murdered by a group of Nazis, brutally stabbed 61 times, besides this his ribs were fractured multiple times and his head was also wounded. Currently only one suspect has been arrested, and was confirmed [...]
Read more →From Occupy Wall Street
Workers facing layoffs at a Chicago window factory have declared victory after occupying their plant for 11 hours. Through direct community action, including the support of Occupy Chicago, the workers and their union prevented the California-based Serious Energy company from closing the plant for another 90 days. The workers hope this will [...]
Read more →By Sacha Ismail
The workshop on discrimination and violence against Europe’s Roma communities which I attended on the afternoon of Unite Against Fascism conference (25 February) was excellent – informative, alarming and a call to action. No doubt there were other useful parts of and aspects to the event. But as a conference it was not [...]
By Jed Weightman
What follows are some initial thoughts on the differences between Sweden and the UK drawn from four days recently spent in Stockholm. Such insights are of course limited by the brevity and scale of my trip (which covered a fair chunk of the city, but only that), my modest knowledge of the [...]
By Cel / @Kosmogrrrl
“Arriving in Keflavik is like landing on Mars.” I hadn’t thought that it would rain this much on Mars.
At first, the transition away from Britishness was gradual: depart through a terminal gate emblazoned with “Barclays”, arrive through one logoed “Landsbanki”. Airports exist to facilitate the free movement of capital, not of people, [...]
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