London Social Struggles Newswire Archive

17-06-2008 22:52

Break the chains

Report of the solidarity event with political prisoners of imperialism 14 June 2008 Read more >>

17-06-2008 17:46

Squatted SCUMFEST punkathon raises £2000 for good causes

This years punkathon SCUMFEST helded last weekend in a squatted car showrooms at EAST HILL, WANDSWORTH LONDON SW18 went brilliantly. Loads of bands from all over the place played and cops and the dim owners left it alone (more or less). Read more >>

17-06-2008 17:32

UNISON's witchhunt of anti-New Labour activists intensifies

Excellent chance of it all hitting the fan at Unison conference today: the four left-leaning union activists that the union bureaucracy is presently trying to expel are holding a special protest meeting. It’s a meeting which anybody who is anybody in Unison has a substantial stake in.

The union bureaucracy’s witchhunt of these four respected officers is easily the biggest issue at conference this year. There are those who think that the union’s future is written in this battle. Either left or the right in the union must win. Read more >>

17-06-2008 17:10

We've changed our address.

We've changed our address.

London Against Camden Danger Lab
BM 8735
London
WC1N3XX
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17-06-2008 17:08 | 1 addition

British Government rejects Scientology petition - again

Earlier this year, a petition was submitted to the British government calling for an investigation into links between UK Police and the Church of Scientology, a notorious international cult with an array of front groups at its disposal. The petition was dismissed out of hand, with a quote from a representative not even involved with the forces in question.

More recently, a second petition was submitted, this one calling for the British government to refrain from granting the Church of Scientology religious (and therefore tax-exempt) status. Today Number 10 issued its response. Take a guess what it was. Read more >>

17-06-2008 15:42 | 1 addition

Atenco Political Prisoners

On 3 and 4 of May, 2006, more than 2,500 state and federal Mexican police arrived at the small town of San Salvador Atenco, Mexico State, to repress members of a social movement (People´s Front in Defence of Land, FPDT) protesting in support of local flower sellers who had been displaced from their traditional place of work because the government was planning to build there a Wall Mart. Read more >>

17-06-2008 13:08 | 1 addition

Charged - "Fitwatchers" arrested at STWC March, March 15. Update

Having been arrested under Sec 241 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 for "intimidation or annoyance by violence or otherwise" towards the FIT team, 3 of the 4 arrestees have now been charged with the less obscure charge of Obstruct Police. Read more >>

16-06-2008 22:41

John McDonnell MP at Hands Off the People of Iran Weekend School

John McDonnell MP addresses the June 14-15 2008 weekend school of Hands Off the People of Iran. He argues that anti-war activists in Britain should not only oppose imperialism's war plans, but also be in active solidarity with the workers, women's and students movements in Iran.

www.hopoi.org Read more >>

16-06-2008 20:56

Somalian protest against US-backed Ethiopian invasion, 15.06.08

Alongside the more talked about anti-Bush protest in Parliament Square on Sunday was another less well-known protest, whose protesters were happy to be swept up by the anti-US throng.
This was the Somalian protest against an Ethiopian invasion into their country- an invasion which is publicly backed by the USA because they see the Somalian rebel leaders as dangerous terrorists associated with al-Qaida. Read more >>

16-06-2008 13:25

Fast for justice in India

I want to alert folk in the UK to a couple of campaigns that are happening right now. Both relate to India and both are of particular interest in that they are using the technique of fasting as a way of drawing attention to the struggle. I have pledged to support the first campaign by participating in the fast; others may be interested in how they can offer their support.
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15-06-2008 14:54

Demo against E.ON, 16th July, London

Join the Greenwash Guerrillas to show that E.ON’S greenwash won’t wash!
Wednesday, 16th July, 8.15 AM, London Read more >>

15-06-2008 12:29

Treasurer shifted and more financial chaos as cash disappears into BNP pit

More chaos down in Welshpool Read more >>

14-06-2008 18:59

London Naked Cycle Ride...14 june 08

Naked Cyclists stage protest in London Read more >>

14-06-2008 17:15

Solidarity with Campsfield detainees

Comrades and friends of Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! solidarity with Campsfield detainees Read more >>

12-06-2008 17:47

Report from the London Social Forum

A discussion about the neoiberal transformations of London and New York and campaigns to defend local markets in London which took place on Monday 9th June in Central London Read more >>

12-06-2008 16:18

Bowl Court Social Centre Days Are Numbered

The courting hearing today ruled in favor of the property developers claiming ownership of the derelict warehouse in Bowl Court that has been used as a radical social centre since openning 23rd March. The David vs Goliath case was clearly motivated by Hammersons desire to prevent the new social centre becoming a hub for the local campaigns against their proposed development for the area, the biggest development in London since Docklands in the eighties. Read more >>

12-06-2008 13:12

Paper Plane Flash Mob at the Department for Transport on 3 July

Tell Ruth Kelly to Stop Airport Expansion:
- Meet 11am, Thursday 3 July, Department for Transport (DfT), 76 Marsham
Street, SW1P 4DR (tube: St James's Park or Westminster)
- 11.03am: Reveal your 'Stop Airport Expansion' t-shirt, if you have one
- 11.05am: launch your 'Stop Airport Expansion' paper planes at the DfT Read more >>

11-06-2008 23:44

Why is there so much Violence in Colombia?

…nearly 4 million displaced…more than 2000 trade unionists killed in the last two decades…40,000 citizens killed overall since 1998…more than 15,000 disappeared… Read more >>

10-06-2008 22:19

Lord Chancellor Jack Straw The Moral Dilemma Is Closer To Home?

'Underage' children are often drunk and generally antisocial or even violent on our British streets. Parents apparently do nothing to stop them. Government believes this is immoral and should be controlled by the use of force, through the making of new laws, and new criminal convictions, even on the parents. The Shalom Family evicted by Crest Nicholson present open invitation to the Lord Chancellor Mr Straw. Read more >>

10-06-2008 12:05

After EDO, George Bush this Sunday, London?

PROTEST BUSH VIST - Parliament Square, Sunday 15th June, 5pm.
George Bush is coming to London and a protest site has been announced by Stop The War Coalition. Although not a thrilling action, possible momentum from the great demo at Edo in Brighton last week could make something more direct happen on the streets of London.
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