UK Analysis Newswire Archive
Black Bloc: the culture of coercion and poor strategy at mass actions needs an overhaul
08-11-2011 09:14
10-min film that'll persuade others why they should support the Occupy movement
07-11-2011 02:45
Crisis of Capitalism explained, by David HarveyHow to explain to your friends and family members why it is important to support the Occupy movement for the 99% in a town or city near you? Get them to watch this 10-minute video of a lecture by David Harvey (with excellent accompanying snapshot annotation with cartoon illustration)
The war on squatters
06-11-2011 20:59
What we are seeing is a well-orchestrated clampdown on alternative culture. Again. By the Tories. Again.We need to keep our eyes peeled.
Interview with John Holloway, published in Shift#13, now available online
05-11-2011 15:36
Shift Magazine interview John Holloway, author of Change the World Without Taking Power and Crack Capitalism, about anti-capitalist politics, the state, and the recent uprisings across the world. Read the full text on the Shift website:
http://shiftmag.co.uk/?p=505
Occupy history: Luddite uprising began in Nottingham 200 years ago last night
05-11-2011 13:00
At five: discussing the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around the world
After six: straight talking and investigative reports with Martin Summers
Sole military Super-Bloc: NATO Issues Daily Reprieves To The World
05-11-2011 00:34
The time is ripe and in fact long overdue for issuing a call for an international anti-NATO initiative addressed to individuals, organizations, political parties and governments to convene an extraordinary session of the United Nations General Assembly to demand the disbanding of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization as a – as the gravest – threat to world peace.
World War 3 A Foregone Conclusion?
04-11-2011 14:43
The hypno-induced psychotic public can't even hear the war drums any more, no matter how loud. They've become background music, white noise or something to tap your foot to. With sadistic glee still warm over Gadhafi's public torture and execution through the streets of Libya, the bloodthirsty mind-controlled western public will count a Syrian overthrow a nice after dinner mint, while monstrous illegal death drone attack reports on innocent civilians in Pakistan and Somalia are savored pastries while sipping their morning coffee.WW3 Conditioning Complete - They Won't See It Coming
Resisting the lure of the Freeman movement
03-11-2011 16:55
Nebulous in its nature, its promise of ways of claiming back power from the state is clearly seductive. Indeed, on a superficial level, it even looks quite like anarchism in action. The aims of the Freemen movement is to use a particular interpretation of the legal system against the government in the name of gaining back freedoms and advantages.
Its mixture of family, moral conservatism and individualism has given it the appearance of an apolitical movement that can easily hook up with both the left and right. So while you can find the Freemen at protests camps, where its apparent anti-government stance will fall on fertile ground, you can just as easily find them being supported by right-wing groups with racist agendas, whose critique of government is more it does not represent their own jaundiced views.
As I will hopefully show, the Freemen agenda is already falling into the sort of bastardized political thinking that gave rise to the likes of anarcho-nationalism. If anything, what it is, is individualist libertarianism, and as such acceptance of this movement needs to be challenged by anarchists.
Against conspiracy theories: Why our activism must be based in reality
03-11-2011 16:28
Syria, the Arab Yugoslavia of Middle East
01-11-2011 11:37
U.S. and NATO seem now in a race against time to preclude the implementation of the Syrian package of reforms, until the ruling regime is coerced into compliance to trade their support of these reforms for the current Syrian foreign policy agenda.Historical Materialism Conference
31-10-2011 18:28
Spaces of Capital, Moments of Struggle
10-13 November, SOAS, London, WC1
Stupid editing Lloyds List
31-10-2011 11:07
Lloyds List put 'The Crisis of Capitalism' into an email that had to be followed up but led an entirely different view.Racism gives Australia one of the worlds' worst deaths in custody records
30-10-2011 09:40
Australia has one of the worlds' worst deaths in custody records - prison and police custodial - however this country's social wealth is envied by most of the rest of the world. Therefore, how is it possible that Australia, with its social wealth, perpetrate the most horrific statistics in terms of custodial deaths, in terms of the rate of deaths and in terms of crude totals? How is it that the Aboriginal peoples of this nation are disproportionately borne with the brunt of deaths in custody and borne with disproportionately wild incarceration rates? Aboriginal incarceration rates are five times the rate when compared with apartheid South Africa, and West Australia's Aboriginal incarceration rates are eight times the rate when compared with apartheid South Africa. In any other country these types of targeted incarceration and deaths in custody rates would have led to a civil war or en masse confrontations."Wake up and smell the cordite" Norways far-right Anders Breivik EDL link update
29-10-2011 22:36
At five: discussing the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around the world
After six: straight talking and investigative reports with Martin Summers
Legal Activism: The Spatial Politics of Squatting in the UK
28-10-2011 20:47
SQUASH and Alex Vasudevan discuss the Government’s plans to criminalize squatting and the legitimacy of engaging with the state over the proposed change in legislation.The murder of Kaddafi by lynch mob and a dark start to “new” Libya
27-10-2011 13:38
The killing of Muammar Kaddafi and the victory of the rebel forces have been quickly celebrated by Obama and other leaders of the NATO, whose warplanes massively bombed the cities of Libya over the past eight months under the guise of “protecting civilians”. The manner in which Kaddafi was killed has, however, been considered by many in Africa as a return to what they called the dark days of colonialism and slavery where captured victims were treated with disrespect and in a dehumanising manner.Plans afoot to criminalise squatting in residential buildings
26-10-2011 17:49
Despite the respondents to its very own consultation overwhelmingly supporting squatting, the Government is still moving full steam ahead to criminalise a solution to emptiness. It's a farcical situation! But one which may have far-reaching consequences...The BBC: NATO’s media partner-in-crime
25-10-2011 21:49
Attacked by NATO jets, then tortured and shot in cold blood in front of jubilant ‘rebels’, all BBC’s chief foreign correspondent John Simpson has to offer is the perpetuation of racist Western myths about the Arabs, about the ‘other’. Disgusting stuff but totally in tune with BBC’s role as NATO’s media partner.
Attention to Greece. Class war intensified.
25-10-2011 16:18
A small analysis as contribution to counter-information about the events of 20th October.