Liverpool Social Struggles Newswire Archive

12-09-2014 18:03

The Need for Scottish Independence

It's not too difficult to get your head around is it? Decentralisation, the breaking up of the British state. What's not to not want? Read more >>

22-07-2014 17:51

This is What Democracy Looks Like! : The Fight For The Can Vies Social Centre

n May Barcelona was shook by four days of rioting and protest against the eviction of an established social centre, Can Vies.

Juana Belén Gutiérrez de Mendoza looks at the history of the building, and interviews the organisers currently fighting its eviction.

Self organised social centre (Centre social autogestionat) Can Vies has been a space for radical politics and community organising for 17 years. It’s been a place where different generations of activists can meet and learn from each other, where hundreds of people have learnt to be a part of a community, participating in the assembly with consensus decision making and collective responsibility. Read more >>

27-06-2014 17:03 | 1 comment

Newsflash: Labour Doesn’t Care About You

It turns out the Left can move people – just not very far or in very interesting directions.

Seeing as how these things are usually rained out or freezing, The People’s Assembly at least managed to pick a nice enough day for their “No More Austerity: Demand the Alternative” march on Saturday (June 21st).

It’s a shame they couldn’t also have picked a more inspiring message – begging the government to stop the public service cuts they’re ideologically committed to and demanding a new Labour government as the only ‘alternative’ they can imagine. Hardly an Earth shatteringly radical call to arms for the poor and oppressed. But they do have Russell Brand, so that’s something. Read more >>

20-06-2014 18:40 | 1 comment

Disgusting Tories try to extend 'Universal Credit' on the sly

Those disgusting Tories try to extend 'Universal Credit' on the sly... Read more >>

02-06-2014 18:57

Sanctions protest in Stanley County Durham

Tuesday 3rd of June is going to see another protest by Durham Unite Community - this time an anti Sanctions protest to spread information about the horrendous regime enforced by the DWP, in Stanley, County Durham. 1030-1230. Stanley Job Centre, 2 Front Street, Stanley, Co. Durham, DH9 0LT Read more >>

16-05-2014 03:42 | 3 comments

Lancaster UKIP Billboard Improved

On the morning of the 16th of May, the UKIP billboard on Scottforth Road, Lancaster, was improved. Read more >>

26-02-2014 23:17

Homes not Jails!

I was at city hall at 09.30 and met with some of the overnight sleepers from a group calling themselves Beat On the Streets. They are concerned that homeless people are in danger of being criminalised. Read more >>

06-02-2014 19:27 | 1 comment

Dear council, a poem, from rent.

Just a poem about rent, to councils , inspired by the up and coming MIPIM selling off land around Europe fair in March, in Cannes.
Details of which attached after the poem. Read more >>

11-01-2014 01:02

Hillsborough – Claims that Metropolitan Police Spied on Campaigners

Relatives of Liverpool fans killed in the Hillsborough disaster have called on the Metropolitan Police to answer claims officers spied on them. The call comes after Private Eye magazine had a freedom of information (FOI) request turned down by the Met. The Met has yet to comment, but reportedly turned down the FOI request to "safeguard national security". Read more >>

19-12-2013 18:54 | 2 comments

Council tenants told to not have a merry christmas

Hammersmith and Fulham Council said 46% of its tenants were in rent arrears and the cards were part of a "hard-hitting" campaign. However, tenants branded it as a "disgusting" move disguised as a festive message.

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14-11-2013 03:02 | 5 comments

Final Stage in getting justice for child rape and unethical human medical trials

document and recordings of a very painful and damaging process Read more >>

27-10-2013 18:11

Solidarity Meeting

A number of well intentioned activists have come together to discuss the problems facing our movement, we feel the need and desire to approach areas of difference and conflict in a more constructive way. Read more >>

13-07-2013 17:27

"Austerity Isn't Working": National Demo Liverpool 27/07

You are invited to be a part of history and attend a demonstration in 2 weeks time that will see everybody who opposes the cuts demonstrate in Liverpool town centre. This is our opportunity to come together from all over the UK, whether you are a bedroom tax group, a pensioners group, a union branch, an anti cuts group or an individual who has enough of life and the austerity measures that have been put in place by Etonian elite and carried out locally. Read more >>

04-04-2013 08:39

History of London's first African mayor John Archer told in his Battersea turf

A hundred years ago in November 1913 John Archer became London's first African mayor when he was elected mayor of Battersea (now the London borough of (Wandsworth). History consultant Kwaku's presentation at Battersea Library on April 16 will show there was more to Archer's history than just being elected mayor. Read more >>

27-03-2013 19:24

Land.

Do more, I continue, is at the heart of our proposal, putting under increasing national and citizen control all the vast and complex productive chains of agriculture and agro-industry of the XXI century, with invaluable impact on what we call productive intelligence per capita.
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26-03-2013 23:28 | 18 comments

Call out against the EDL Infidels in Sunderland March 30th

This is a leaflet produced by North East Anti Fascists for use in Sunderland and beyond to mobilise against the far right. Read more >>

06-03-2013 11:39 | 2 comments

Public Meeting: ‘50 Shades of Resistance’

The Anne Frank Trust UK is proud to present its International Women’s Day 2013 public meeting in Manchester: ‘50 Shades of Resistance’. Read more >>

04-03-2013 19:21

The film industry is the way?

Produced at millions of copies, costing pennies each, distributed throughout the country by the Brazilian Film Company and commercialized by legions of heroic fighters of the streets called Street Vendors, these copies are the biggest deterrent to piracy, will enhance the income and dignity of this micro-marketers, will take the national cinema to innumerable Brazilians and to other people, and, sold at popular prices, will make billionaire the Brazilian Film Industry and turn it in a sector able to fulfill its strategic role of consolidating a democratic and plural national identity and of compromising our population with a well-argued and well-supported national project.
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02-03-2013 17:06 | 33 comments

EDL Numpties Achieve Nothing In Manchester - #edl #nwi @slatedl @misslbuttercup

The EDL got absolutely nothing from today's visit to Manchester, leaving its braindead devotees so absolutely bored shitless, afterwards came a mad dash to jump naked into the canal at Canal Street (possibly wandering where the EDL's Gay Division had vanised to). After the usual run-of-the-mill speeches, anti-fascists will be pleased to know nothing has changed, Tommy, Kev and Hel still in-charge of the EDL, and not the French Revolution-like leadership change that many members had prayed incessantly to Nutzi Norse God "Odin" for. Read more >>

27-02-2013 23:15 | 49 comments

EDL Support Hardcore Anti-Semites in Manchester This Saturday #edl #nwi @slatedl

Since their inception in 2008, the EDL have repeated in parrot fashion the mantra that they are peacefully opposing Islamic extremism by taking to the streets. Formed after poppies were burnt in Luton, this far right group argued every day for a considerable time that they were not racist. Furthermore, setting up supposed Gay and Jewish Divisions, they appeared on radio, TV and the newspapers telling the world that they hated antisemitism and homophobia, and yet, few people believed them. Read more >>