London Newswire Archive

01-05-2013 08:23

March For England Dismal Failure

Apologies for late posting ... Read more >>

30-04-2013 20:27

May 6th Greek Info Night @ Pogo Cafe

Greek Info Night. Monday 6th May. 7.30pm Read more >>

30-04-2013 17:32

At Your Service (Tales from Community Service)

Article written by contributor who is currently serving a 120 hour community payback order, in which they are required to do a program of unpaid work for the terrible "community"1. This Article forms the First part of a short series detailing different aspects and analysis of the community payback program, from thinking about the actions being performed and their implications to offering a kind of insight into what this shit is actually like. Please distribute to anyone you know who might be about to get sentenced to community payback. Read more >>

29-04-2013 21:21

Brighton Green Party compares staff strike proposals to winter of discontent

Having voted for Council officers to implement cuts to staff take home pay of up to £95 per week a leading Brighton Green Party Councillor has said compared staff strike proposals to the winter of discontent Read more >>

28-04-2013 09:45

Protection not Profit, Protest against Primark's Treatment of Bangladeshi Worker

A non-violent disruption protest has been organised for this Saturday 4th May 2013 inside and in front of Primark in Coventry. We will be showing our solidarity by publicly shaming any company which exploits its workers across the world in low-paying jobs and those who completely disregard the safety of their workers in order to seek maximum profit. Read more >>

27-04-2013 12:10

Case shows up squalid cruelty and abuses in greyhound industry

Animal welfare groups and greyhound protection organizations are appalled at the deliberate cruelty to greyhounds in Ireland revealed in the course of a recent court case, where a man admitted getting someone to shot two greyhounds that refused to chase hares (link to item on case below) Read more >>

25-04-2013 16:34

Scottish Coal's Collapse : A Failure of the Planning System

LAON's Press Release questions the role the Scottish Planning System has played in this tragic sequence of events. It draws attention to the fact that 18 opencast sites are affected, not just the six often mention in most news items on this story and suggests that some form of public inquiry is needed if trust is to be restored into the Scottish Planning System and lessons learned so that this situation can be avoided in the future. Read more >>

25-04-2013 12:32

Drax AGM targeted over biomass conversion plans

50 people took part yesterday in a demonstration and rally outside the annual general meeting of Drax Plc, at the Grocers’ Hall in London, organised by Biofuelwatch and supported by 16 other groups. The protest opposed Drax power station’s plans to convert half of its generating capacity to biomass, and highlighted the impacts that this will have in terms of increased deforestation, land-grabbing and carbon emissions. Read more >>

23-04-2013 21:20

Call out for action - UK and Germany calls for Brazil to halt Belo Monte dam

Action for the Amazon is planning to hold a small fluffy demo out side the Brzillian embassy on Friday the 26th April. Please come and show your support for the Achaur tribe who's land will be flooded, and call the Brazillian government to halt the dam buiding.
We plan to take potted plants to the embassy to offer them somthing to re-plant with. Read more >>

23-04-2013 11:34

London Gala concert in memory of the Arctic Convoys 1941-1945

A Commemorative Gala Performance by The Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra (RPCO) dedicated to the victorious alliance of Britain and Russia in the Arctic Convoys 1941-1945 of the Second World War will take place on Thursday 9 May 2013, at 18:30 in The Hay’s Galleria, London SE1 2HD. Read more >>

22-04-2013 03:42

The Many, many Charges Against Margaret Thatcher

The legacy of Margaret Thatcher is complex and an emotional response to her passing is not enough. Working class people must realise that her work is incomplete and has been picked up the current batch of young, ruthless, elitist tories, masquerading as a reformed party. Masks change, not the agend. Read more >>

21-04-2013 22:36

The Thatcher Legacy, the Legacy of Dependency.

The freedom's we have enjoyed in our modern period are not the freedoms given to us by the gentrification and systemisation of our economy, but by the might of an empire. The Thatcher legacy is not derived from what we know to be true, but by what we don't know at all. Read more >>

21-04-2013 21:59

Make tower hamlets Council truthful - or a local 'mayor' may sink as Ken did!

UK Communities Secretary Eric Pickles may be in for a surprise welcome in a most
untypical zone - the inner city, routinely "deprived" East London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
Pickles may not be even aware himself that he may be the leader of a subliminal movement progressing modestly across Tower Hamlets that may end up with sinking Lutfur Rahman in the forthcoming 'mayor poll' in May 2014. Read more >>

21-04-2013 11:31

EDL-Brighton Watch; The Argus Brighton local rag online version:

monitor the anti-EDL mob and EDL antics here:

http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/10369636.LIVE__March_for_England_in_Brighton/ Read more >>

19-04-2013 20:52

Bayer, Monsanto, Syngenta, BASF, Dow: Biggest Bee Killers

Suggested action to take to ban insecticides which kill bees, 'the world's largest labor
force'. Read more >>

19-04-2013 13:02

Shell to Sea campaigner to speak in Bristol, Leeds & Manchester

Local resident and Shell to Sea campaigner Terence Conway will be speaking in Bristol, Leeds & Manchester to give an update on campaign against Shell in Ireland & promote the Rossport Solidarity Camp week of action happening there in June. Read more >>

18-04-2013 16:53

Get tooled up in Bristol this Saturday!

Thatcher may be dead but now we need to kill off her legacy. Come and dip into the activist toolbox this Saturday, for all the tools you'll need to join the struggle against capital and the state. Then let's go to work...bring on the north west European spring! Read more >>

17-04-2013 09:22

Tomorrow: emergency demo in Solidarity with Guantánamo Hunger Strikers

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The London Guantánamo Campaign invites you to an emergency demonstration

outside the US Embassy, Grosvenor Square, London, W1A 1AE
(nearest underground: Bond Street/Marble Arch)

on Thursday 18 April
at 6-8pm
open mic and banners - feel free to bring your own

in support of the Guantánamo Hunger Strikers
now in their third month of protest at
11 years of torture, abuse and arbitrary detention

The current hunger strike at Guantánamo Bay, now in its 11th week, turned nasty at the weekend, when new orders were issued to separate prisoners, resulting in an invasion of their cells and plastic bullets being fired at prisoners allegedly putting up resistance, in spite of being weakened after 11 weeks without food. Their lawyers report that some have lost over 30lb in weight in that time and the US Defense Department states that at least 13 are being force fed. Nearly all the prisoners are on hunger strike. Most have been held without charge or trial for over 11 years with little prospect of release. Read more >>

16-04-2013 20:07

Hero, Actor James Cromwell, Arrested In Animal Rights Action

In the U.S., actor James Cromwell, star of Babe and many other movies, has been
arrested at the University of Wisconsin for speaking out against cat torture there.
The University of Wisconsin has also been involved in primate torture, tasering of pigs for the US Justice Department, and furthering the enslaving of cows for their milk. Read more >>

15-04-2013 23:17

The roll-out of tasers will make minority groups targets once again

PUBLIC MEETING: to discuss new 24hr Taser patrols in every London borough. There has been no consultation and evidence shows they are disproportionately used against ethnic minorities, people with mental ill health and young people. Join us at 7pm on April 22, at Chats Palace, 42-44 Brooksby Walk, Homerton, E9 6DF Read more >>