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NO TO TESCOS. The latest battle and the upcoming struggle in Bristol

09-03-2010 13:34

get in touch!
A message from Jester's Comedy Squat resisting yet another TECOS in Bristol.

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Saturday May 1st Parliament Square - Mayday festival

09-03-2010 13:23

On Saturday the first of May 2010 there will be a massive Mayday festival right in the middle of Parliament Square. This is to mark ten years since the first Mayday anti-capitalist day of action which also took place in Parliament Square. Only this time we will be there in even greater numbers!
This years Mayday event also coincides with the forthcoming general election which takes place just a few days later.

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The Battle for Grosvenor Road

09-03-2010 13:09

Jobcentre Plus Strikers in Wrexham, N. Wales
DWP Civil Servants striking at Jobcentre Plus, Inland Revenue and Valuation Offices in Wrexham, N. Wales.

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Trial of indigenous activist who attempted to make a citizen's arrest of Bush

09-03-2010 11:50

indigenous activist Splitting the Sky

Splitting the Sky, indigenous activist, seized by security forces in Canada last year when he attempted to make a citizen's arrest of George W. Bush will have his day in court on Monday, March 8th. According to Professor Anthony J. Hall, this case will demonstrate whether Canada is ruled by law or fear and highlight the need for new principles, the Calgary Principles to amend the victor's justice of the Nuremberg Principles, in light of the new impunities for high level crimes against humanity and the Earth in this era, and the need to protect and honor civil resistance to those high crimes.

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Squatted Proposed Tesco Site - Eviction Resisted This Morning In Bristol

09-03-2010 11:41

A former comedy club, Cheltenham Rd, Bristol, proposed to be yet another tesco metro, buit now turned into a temporary social center - at which there has been an event on for the last fortnight, withstood an eviction attempt this morning.

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Please Act Now!

09-03-2010 10:24

Please write to Hastings Borough Council to stoip further destruction of beautiful wildlife corridor.

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International Women's Day in Argentina

09-03-2010 09:17

The radical left in Argentina is organizing a demonstration in Buenos Aires for international women's day. An interview with Andrea D'Atri, spokeswoman for the Argentinean women's organization "Pan y Rosas (Bread and Roses), connected with the "Partido de Trabajadores Socialistas" (Socialist Workers' Party).

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Quo Vadis, Africa? Some Reflections about a truncated Future

09-03-2010 02:24

Also in Venezuela, also in Africa, a class conscious proletariat will have the final word with reference to the experiment Man, of experimentum mundi. The alternative would be eternal, global, capitalist, fascist barbarism, the continuation of the old, of the obsolete, of decay.

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EDL Yobs Urinate On Westminster Abbey

09-03-2010 00:17

If desecrating Nottingham Castle was not enough, on Friday the 5th of March, whilst in London to pay homage to their far right extremist prophet Geert Wilders, the "patriotic crusaders of England's cultural heritage" paid their ultimate respect to one of England's most historic sacred Christian sites, deluging Westminster Abbey with gallons of filthy urine.

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BNP meeting Durham

08-03-2010 22:52

Details sent to a fake facebook profile

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Solidarity with Women in Iran

08-03-2010 22:42

Opposite the Iranian Embassy 1
More than 50 men and women, mainly Iranians, took part in a protest organised by the 8 March Women's Organsiation (Iran-Afghanistan) to mark International Women's Day. They protested at the Iranian Embassy against the 31 years of anti-women Islamic laws and repression and calling for an end to the Islamic regime in Iran before marching to Trafalgar Square for a rally. London 07/03/2010

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Million Women Rise London March

08-03-2010 22:18

Young women from Tower Hamlets
Several thousand women marched through London on Saturday 6 March, taking over the street as they passed as an all-women area and calling for an end to male violence against women. The march started along London's major shopping street, Oxford Street, before going through Piccadilly Circus and on to a rally in Trafalgar Square. Photos (C) Copyright Peter Marshall, 2010, all rights reserved.

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Benjamin, friend of many Calais activists due for deportation, appeal for help!!

08-03-2010 22:15

Here is an appeal for help for our friend Benjamin who is now in Cronbrook, awaiting forcible removal to Greece on Wednesday.

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Portsmouth Greyhound Track comes to a close!

08-03-2010 21:58

SARC received the news today that our long running campaign against the Portsmouth Greyhound track has been a success. The Greyhound track has only three weeks left of trading before it closes it's doors forever!

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Class War Greece updates 7th & 8th of March 2010

08-03-2010 21:34

clashes in Volos and Xanthi, NationalBank Occupations in Komotini, Occupations in Athens (note: as long as the "measures" law isn't published it's not legal, therefore the workers of the NationalPrintFactory occupied their workplace, the other one is occupied by the sacked workers of olymic airs)
AND SO ON, strikes continue, bigger one on 8th and General Strike on 11th

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UAF Oppose EDL March in Westminster - Pictures

08-03-2010 21:22

UAF gather at Old Palace Yard 1
The UAF opposed the EDL march in Westminster in support of in support of Geert Wilders on Friday 5 March 2010. Police largely kept the two groups apart and ensured the march could take place. Photographs Copyright (C) Peter Marshall 2010, all rights reserved.

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Thursday 11th -- No Borders evening @ Coventry Peace House

08-03-2010 21:14

Resistance and Dignity

A second evening of film, discussion, and food.
Thursday 11 February 6pm-9pm in the Coventry Peace House
311 Stoney Stanton Rd, Coventry
All welcome.

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Doubtful Memories of a Radical Lawyer

08-03-2010 20:59

During my prisoner support activities, many questions have stalked my mind like frightening shadows. Three such questions are ‘Who are the real criminals?’ ‘Where are they found?’ and what exactly are there offences? These questions have found expression in the ongoing struggle of John Bowden

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Demonstrate Ageinst Home office in Glasgow FESTIVAL COURT 11.30 AM

08-03-2010 17:17

Call Out for Demonstration Ageinst Home Office and its abirtory decisions that are ruining many lives in GlasgowT
hree people kill themselves in Glasgow Red Road court rather than being removed.

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Cardiff Save the Badger demo report

08-03-2010 14:47

Save the Badger demo
Save the bdger demo held at welsh assembly monday 8th march