Stop the EDL from demonstrating in Whitehall on Monday!

The EDL plan to demonstrate in Whitehall on Monday but thousands of anti-fascists will be there to stop them. They will be demonstrating between 3pm and 5pm opposite Downing Street. Thousands of activists will be mobilising a gigantic counter demonstration to drive them out of town.

Posted by on 25 May 2013 | 4:27 am

'Tommy Robinson' Speaks!

Hilarious spoof on the wireless!

Posted by on 25 May 2013 | 1:24 am

Update on Brighton squat trial

The one defendant was today found guilty! :[ <br/><br/>He was sentenced to 40 hours unpaid labour and a £250 fine. A light sentence, but nevertheless a travesty, when the evidence is considered. <br/><br/>ROLL ON THE APPEAL…

Posted by on 24 May 2013 | 2:30 pm

Support Sireen Sawafteh - Abducted by Israel on the 14 May 2013

Last Tuesday Sireen, a 24 year old woman from Tubas, was detained by the Israeli occupation forces. She is currently being held in Al Jalameh, an Israeli prison. Her family and friends fear for her safety. She has been denied access to a lawyer and she has not been allowed to make any contact with her loved ones since her abduction.

Posted by on 24 May 2013 | 10:18 am

Guantanamo: A pinnacle of depravity!

The folowing article considers Guantanamo as an example of the banality of evil. It also notes the similarity between the illegal enslavement, deprivation and torture of the detainees at Guantanamo - to produce information; and earlier forms of US slavery - to produce different commodities.

Posted by on 24 May 2013 | 7:11 am

VIOME: A Workers' Experiment with Global Appeal

“No worker who is not a shareholder, no shareholder who is not a worker,” say the workers of VIOME (Industrial Mineral), a factory in northern Greece. Their plan to take over the factory and to manage it themselves has generated waves of encouragement and support throughout the world. In this report for UNFOLLOW magazine, Christos Avramidis and Antonis Galanopoulos investigate the background to current events, and ask what the future might hold for these workers and their plan, what the reaction of the Greek government is likely to be, and whether workers’ self-management is feasible in a capitalist context.

Posted by on 24 May 2013 | 6:53 am

Activists defy police attempts to gather intelligence on resistance to G8

Two UK anti-capitalists, returning to the country on Sunday May 19 after attending an anarchist festival in the Netherlands ( http://www.pinksterlanddagen.org/english), were intercepted by Kent Police Special Branch officers at Dover, then detained and questioned for three hours under Schedules 7 and 8 of the Terrorism Act 2000.

Posted by on 24 May 2013 | 6:11 am

StopG8 National Gathering @ London 25/26 May

London Action Resource Centre - 62 Fieldgate St London E1 1ES

Posted by on 24 May 2013 | 5:45 am

Free Counselling for Activists, Campaigners and Social Changers

Counselling for Social Change (CSC) are offering free phone counselling and rural retreats for activists, campaigners, and social changers. Phone support is ongoing and can last as long as needed. The retreats will be in a low-impact shepherd's hut in rural West Cornwall, and can last between a weekend to a week, and can be supported through phone counselling before and after the retreat.

Posted by on 24 May 2013 | 5:44 am

UG#642 - Living a 3-Dimensional Life (Living Moneyless, Walden #1)

A poem by Wendell Berry starts us off on a differently paced, more musical set of episodes this episode. As a counter to what Jacques Fresco terms 'base articiality of materialism and mindless consumption' we weave a tapestry of thoughts including those from iconoclastic earthy thinkers including Suelo, the moneyless resident of a Utah desert from whom we heard in episode 600 and the American Transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau.

Posted by on 23 May 2013 | 8:16 pm

Hurley tramples on half a million Chechens

Please let Elizabeth Hurley know what you think of her and another scumbag french actor Gerard Depardieu going to Chechniya to make a film. <br/><br/>We don't know how much she's been paid, but half a million dead Chechniyan people killed by its present president will have put most actors from touching Ramzan Kadyrov with a barge pole.

Posted by on 23 May 2013 | 8:31 am

Brighton squat trial resumes tomorrow

The squat trial which began in April resumes tomorrow in Brighton, come down to see s144 get the bashing it deserves.

Posted by on 23 May 2013 | 7:28 am

Hunting Wildlife Crime Officer Removed From Post

Hunt Saboteurs have today welcomed news that PC Sarah Ward, from North Yorkshire Police is no longer in position as a Wildlife Crime Officer. This comes after a complaint made by a saboteur about the officers link to the Badsworth & Bramham Moor Foxhounds.

Posted by on 23 May 2013 | 5:05 am

U.K. anarchist publication “Return Fire” released

Our new zine Return Fire is now available. It's a diverse mix with liberatory aims, which we hope to be informative and inspiring for anyone who decides to make their life a weapon against the dominant order.

Posted by on 23 May 2013 | 3:51 am

UG#640 - The Making Of The National Security State (The Power Principle 1)

We devote the whole show to the first part of a radio adaptation of the 2012 Metanoia film, The Power Principle. Using examples of Iran, Guatemala, Congo, Chile and Greece a wide range of insiders and historians unmask the Cold War as a propaganda cover for the war between the rest of the world and resource hungry US corporations.

Posted by on 22 May 2013 | 7:51 pm

UG#641 - The Making Of The National Security State (The Power Principle 2)

We continue where we left off last in episode #640, with a radio adaptation of the remainder of the most recent of Scott Noble's 2012 film, The Power Principle. This half focuses on the sequence of fears used by the ruling elite to keep the 99% submissive and afraid, whether of communists, nuclear war or Muslim fundamentalists. Insiders and other commentators reveal a bigger picture of US Foreign Policy driven by an aggressive and ruthless clique using organisations such as the CIA, the arms industry and big media to exploit and oppress the 99% both at home and abroad.

Posted by on 22 May 2013 | 7:46 pm

"Where are the organ grinders?" - photos from the legal aid cuts protest

Photographs from the march against legal aid cuts in Manchester.

Posted by on 22 May 2013 | 12:44 pm

Where are the organ grinders?

It is not often that lawyers take to the streets. But they did on Tuesday in Manchester over the latest legal aid cuts.

Posted by on 22 May 2013 | 12:19 pm

Children's Art from Gaza: Report on talk by Rod Cox in Wrexham

In the final week of the 'Loss of Innocence' Exhibition of Children's Art from Gaza at Wrexham Cathedral, Rod Cox came to speak about how he collected this artwork in early 2009 as part of the Aid Convoy in the wake of the 'Operation Cast Lead' bombardment of Gaza by Israel, about the children who created the artwork, their trauma, injuries, lost families, destroyed homes and shattered lives, as well as their hopes for a peaceful future free from fear.The Exhibition has now moved on to the local Yale College of Further Education where it will be open for viewing by students and the public in the Learning Resource Centre (library) for the next two weeks. From 4 June it will move again to St. Christopher's School in Hightown.

Posted by on 22 May 2013 | 8:55 am

Stop G8 meeting in Portsmouth

A meeting about the Stop G8 week of action in June is being held in Portsmouth on Tuesday May 28.

Posted by on 22 May 2013 | 3:28 am

Tornado Over A Mile Wide And 200 MPH Hit Moore Oklahoma In US

Tornado Alley in the US is a group of states with extensive cattle operations and virtually no trees.

Posted by on 21 May 2013 | 4:12 pm

War for Oil takes a Weird Turn

It gave an impression of Russian roulette at the pump – when the Brussels regime raided offices of European oil corporations last week there was no mentioning of the deadly bullet that could bring about the liquidation of these fossil legacies from the most ruthless decades of industrialisation. That smoking gun would be the notorious “Bhopal of the seabed”, the deep water drilling catastrophe in the gulf of Mexico, in which the “American Dream” to stop the rise of the sea level before total disarmament had gone up in flames. Stuck on downplaying like a Mandarin emperor, official statements even suggested that the raids were a routine event such as if the same had happened every year before.

Posted by on 21 May 2013 | 1:18 pm

Crisis of Civilization Podcast#3 Sibel Edmond: the most gagged person in the USA

FBI whistle-blower Sibel Edmonds was described as “the most gagged person in the history of the United States” by the American Civil Liberties Union. This week, Nafeez mosaddeq Ahmed released an article about her story which has gone viral. You can read the article "Why was a Sunday Times report on US government ties to al-Qaeda chief spiked?" here  http://sheffield.indymedia.org.uk/2013/05/509561.html

Posted by on 21 May 2013 | 1:17 pm

Fascist freindly shop opens in Brum

"For now we're going to try and be nice" - please contact the shop and shopping centre - details in article.

Posted by on 21 May 2013 | 9:51 am

Leeds No Borders public meeting

Leeds No Borders & Movement for Justice are holding a public hearing on the UKBA's murder of Jackie Nanyonjo, with testimonies from asylum seekers, refugees and ex-detainees.

Posted by on 21 May 2013 | 5:09 am

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