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EDL / NF attacker Anthony Craggs

08-06-2012 00:38

EDL / NF attacker Anthony Craggs

Zippos Circus Comes To The Durham

05-06-2012 04:15

Zippos Circus Is a Disgusting animal circus that is currently touring the country
its now visiting Durham
we are asking everyone to take action against Zippos circus

Dalton Park Outlet Shopping Centre, Murton, Co Durham, SR7 9HU

atyourservice@dalton-park.co.uk

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VIDEO: Planned Obsolescence ("The Lightbulb Conspiracy")

04-06-2012 12:35

This video is well worth an hour of your time: Yes, there are many documentaries out there about over-consumption, consumerism, etc, but this one stands out from the rest, in that it makes this excellent observation on the world economy: Our economy is based on over-consumption and consumerism, even planned obsolescence of products, and cannot function if the people were to overcome these "bad habits".

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Quebec Student Revolt - Request for Solidarity

21-05-2012 23:52

Request for solidarity and support for the Legal Committee of the CLASSE

We write you during a dark time for democratic, human and associative rights in Quebec with the following appeal for your help and solidarity. As you have no doubt heard, the government recently enacted legislation that amounts to the single biggest attack on the right to organize and freedom of expression in North America since the McCarthy period and the biggest attack on civil and democratic rights since the enactment of the War Measures Act in 1970. Arguably, this recent law will unduly criminalize more law-abiding citizens than even McCarthy's hearings and the War Measures Act ever could.

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International Tribunal to investigate the mass genocide of prisoners

20-05-2012 19:38

Iran's Islamic regime must be held accountable for its crimes against humanity.
Thousands of political prisoners been killed as a 'enemy of God ' under ' Islamic Law'

“Iran Tribunal” aims to raise the awareness of the international community and the civil societies by exposing the horrific magnitude of this human tragedy.

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Nigerian Doctors Strike

18-05-2012 14:02

Reflections on the Lagos state government’s onslaught on doctors
A recent crackdown on doctors in Nigeria is symptomatic of a wider state attack on the working class.

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The Caravan for Climate Jobs is in Sheffield

18-05-2012 13:05

The Climate Caravan and supporters from Sheffield set up displays and collected petitions in Tudor Square in Sheffield on 18th May 2012. The attached audio includes interviews with Sheffield Renewables,

http://www.sheffieldrenewables.org.uk/ the driver of the van, Solar Active,

http://new.solar-active.com/ and the Sheffield Campaign Against Climate Change

https://sites.google.com/site/scaccweb/

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Policing the Crisis Today - New pamphlet

16-05-2012 09:27

We had 'Pop sociology', well now we've got punk criminology! This could be an early contender for the pamphlet of the year award?

“Policing the Crisis Today”, 44 pages, printed in A5 and A4 sizes
Published by Cl@ss War Classix; Mayday 2012, £1, ISSN 2042-048X

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The Wobblies - Free film - Wednesday at the Cowley Club, Brighton

15-05-2012 07:50

Wednesday, May 16th at 7:30pm there will be a screening of the 1979 documentary “The Wobblies”, about the IWW, the radical anarcho-syndicalist trade union.

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The Left, Labor and Occupy

14-05-2012 04:32

Barely half a year after it burst on the scene, the Occupy Wall Street movement is splintering left and right. This was inevitable in a movement that was united only in what it opposed and could never put forward a positive program, whether of reformist "demands" on the capitalist state or of revolutionary action against it. Liberals, who latched onto Occupy hoping it could pressure the Democratic Party in a more populist direction, want to expel "black bloc" anarchists. Reformist social democrats rail against "ultraleftists" in Occupy and cozy up to the labor tops. On the other side, many (but not all) anarchists oppose unions. Some are simply arrogant petty-bourgeois labor haters. Others are grappling with real problems, but with skewed analysis and dead wrong conclusions. Discussion of recent workers' struggles, from Wisconsin to West Coast longshore, underlines that the key question is leadership, but not just replacing one set of bureaucrats with another. Unions have always faced vicious anti-labor laws, but we have the power to defeat them. It is necessary to drive out the pro-capitalist bureaucracy, the labor lieutenants of capital, in order to turn the unions into instruments of revolutionary class struggle.

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Anti-Authoritarianism Today and Yesterday

11-05-2012 19:35

Meeting on the forthcoming celebration in August of the founding of the Anti-Authoritarian International

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Argentina: Que Se Vayan Todos! – They All Must Go!

09-05-2012 12:21

What is to be done when capital and government abandon the people? It is a question that social movements throughout Europe and the US have begun to raise with a creative political militancy unseen in decades.

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May Day in Berlin - It's Raining Rocks (Again)

06-05-2012 13:52

Twenty-five years after the original May Day riots in Kreuzberg, a ritualised confrontation with the police leaves the streets littered with cobblestones and broken glass.

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Spirit of May Day Flickers Back to Life

03-05-2012 10:07

Anti-workfare protesters brought chaos to London’s West End yesterday after the annual Trade Union May Day march and demonstration. A roving mob of around 350 people successfully shut down countless shops and businesses who use forced labour under the Government’s workfare schemes.

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Peter Tatchell joins Bradley Manning contingent on Mayday march

03-05-2012 08:19

Anthony and Serena were joined by Peter Tatchell taking the 'Free Bradley Manning' message to the streets in London for the Mayday march with placard and megaphone from Clerkenwell Green to the rally in Trafalgar Square.

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Whistleblowers meet in Denbigh as part of Bradley Manning solidarity tour

03-05-2012 07:20

Report from a meeting of north Wales whistleblowers and supporters held last Friday, 27 April in Denbigh.

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May Day in the Philippines

03-05-2012 06:27

THOUSANDS of trade unionists and activists poured into the streets of Manila and other key cities to celebrate May Day amid renewed hopes that the two latest efforts at labor unity will provide strong impetus to their uphill battle for labor and trade union rights.

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Celebrate 40 years of Black Power media - tune in May 5-6 to Uhuru News live

02-05-2012 14:59

Uhuru News invites listeners and readers worldwide to tune in for 2 days of special programming during its 2012 Spring Radiothon. For over 40 years, The Burning Spear newspaper has served as the voice of the international African revolution. The oldest Black Power journal in continuous publication since the 1960s, The Spear is now available online at UhuruNews.com, along with live radio and video broadcasts from throughout the world.

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Where We Stand : Formation of a new anarchist communist project in the UK

01-05-2012 11:14

May Day statement of "Collective Action". In it we outline our analysis of the problems facing the anarchist movement in the UK and offer a call out to all independent anarchist communists to participate in our project to re-visit our political tradition, re-group and re-kindle our political action.

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Anti-Fascist OAPs Attacked by Far Right

30-04-2012 20:27

Practical suggestions for self-protection after Anders Breivik wannabes attack elderly Anti-Fascists in Lewisham