Skip to content or view screen version

UK Promoted Newswire Archive

Full article | 2 comments

Fr. Martin Newell Catholic Worker Imprisoned for Anti-War Action at Northwood HQ

10-12-2011 09:32

Fr. Martin Newell of the London Catholic Worker community was sentenced to 24 days imprisonment Friday Dec 9th 2011 at Highbury Magistrates Court. Martin was brought before the court for refusing to pay a fine arising from cutting into the Northwood Headquarters/ London.

Full article

The Unilever Strike and the Case for Classwide Solidarity

09-12-2011 17:41

Picketers at Port Sunlight - a village financed by the original company owners
More than two and a half thousand UK-based Unilever staff took strike action today, in protest at the company's plans to attack their pension scheme. But the very fact that such attacks are taking place in the private sector as well as the public sector raises the case for classwide solidarity, and an end to union-imposed isolation.

Full article | 2 additions | 1 comment

Photos from Court: Census refuser cases, Liverpool

08-12-2011 21:00

Here are some photos from the demo outside Dale Street Magistrates Court in Liverpool where a number of census refuser cases were dealt with this morning. We're aware of at least three defendants pleading not guilty today with their trials being set for 17 and 18 January back at this court (not at Crown Court as reported by the bbc). Full report to follow.

Full article | 1 comment

University of Birmingham gets injunction to stop occupation-style protests

08-12-2011 20:56

Police and security prevent food being passed through windows
The University of Birmingham has obtained a 12 month high court injunction to stop all occupation-style protests on its 250-acre campus

Full article

Palestine Today 12 08 2011

08-12-2011 14:04

Audio
Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Thursday December 8, 2011.

Full article | 1 comment

Sparks Defy Anti-Union Laws With Massive Wildcat Strike

08-12-2011 13:53

Hundreds of electricians took wildcat strike action on Wednesday, defying the bosses who want to slash their wages, the anti-union laws which the bosses use to pick holes in strike mandates, and the union bureacracy which had to be dragged kicking and screaming to holding a ballot at all. The country's biggest 'unofficial' walkout in decades represents a new stage in the UK class war - a stage in which workers recognise the limitations of their own leaderships, and consciously move beyond them. By cutting out the utterly compromised middle men and women in this way, working people come face to face with their ultimate enemy - huge corporations and the capitalist state.

Full article | 1 comment

UPDATE Downing St/ War on Afghanistan Action - 2 charged, 1 in custody, 4 NFA'd

08-12-2011 13:16

Legal action results from the NVDA taken at Downing St.on Oct 7th. 2011 marking the 10th. anniversary of the war on Afghanistan
VIDEO (3 mins)
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEwd0KfBD7I
BACKGROUND ARTICLE
 https://london.indymedia.org/articles/10350

Full article

Palestine Today 12 07 2011

07-12-2011 15:00

Audio
Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Wednesday December 7, 2011.

Full article

Palestine Today 12 06 2011

06-12-2011 15:38

Audio
Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Tuesday December 6, 2011.

Full article | 4 comments

On The Mass Arrests In Hackney, 30th November 2011

06-12-2011 11:28

On Wednesday 30th November, some people sick of the soul-destroying
rhythms of daily life, took to the streets of Hackney. Bored by the
dull dynamics of union activities which reduce our misery to a few narrow
demands and channel and contain our anger, we decided to take control of
our situation.

Full article

Palestine Today 12 05 2011

05-12-2011 14:06

Audio
Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Monday December 5, 2011.

Full article | 1 addition | 4 comments

High Court rules that Assange can seek Appeal to Supreme Court

05-12-2011 13:25

Julian Assange was back at the Royal Courts of Justice in London today seeking permission - from the High Court judges who dismissed his appeal against extradition in November - to take his case to the Supreme Court. They haven't actually allowed this, but they're allowing him to ask the Supreme Court directly for leave to appeal, on one of the two points raised.

Full article | 1 comment

Mexican embassy flies Zapatista flag

04-12-2011 12:25

The new flag
A solidarity demo in Embassy Quarter, London, began dramatically with the imperialist tri-colour being removed from the Mexican embassy, set on fire, and replaced with the Zapatista red star.

Full article

Occupy Planet Earth: Resisting the Militarisation of State Power

03-12-2011 14:47

Occupy Wall Street Movement Goes Worldwide

Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed spent the first half of the post 2001 decade analysing the West's Ties With Terror: Western-Al-Qaeda Relations in the Post-Cold War Period (2005), The Secret History of International Terrorism (2006) and the role of the West in Creating Terror (2006). Following this he moved on to analysing the The Hidden Holocaust - Our Civilizational Crisis (2008) and the Food Crisis & Peak Oil (2008). His latest book is A User’s Guide to the Crisis of Civilization: And How to Save It (2010), has now been adapted into a documentary feature film, The Crisis of Civilization (2011) and it had it's first UK screening in Leeds, in November. Read on for an analysis of the multiple global crisis's facing humanity and the hope that a movement to change the course the 1% have society set on can be changed by the 99%, Occupy Planet Earth: Resisting the Militarisation of State Power by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed.

Full article | 3 comments

Thousands take to Cambridge Streets on November 30th

02-12-2011 22:47

A beautiful day...
On Wednesday November 30th, we witnessed one of the biggest public sector strikes to take place in the UK since the 1970s, and the people of Cambridge came out in force to support it.

Some estimates place the figure at around 4,000 local people in attendance, although there is no way to confirm (or deny) this.

Full article

Squatting in Scotland? The People's Cafe in Edinburgh!

02-12-2011 11:11

A diverse group of autonomous people are currently squatting1 3 Bristo Place in central Edinburgh. The 3-storey building has stood empty and unused for over 3 months since August 31st 2011. The non-hierarchical group are taking direct action to reclaim this space for use by the community.

Full article

Video: N30 Birmingham demonstration

02-12-2011 01:25

Video
In the biggest strike since 1926 thousands of of public sector workers marched through Birmingham in opposition to the Government’s pension proposals, the cuts and general anger at the banks.

Full article

#n30: audio from south london pickets + main march

01-12-2011 22:55

WORK IN PROGRESS

WORK IN PROGRESS