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Desperation at Morton Hall
15-08-2012 08:55
There was more unrest at Morton Hall Immigration Removals Centre yesterday, when a detainee got on the roof and threatened to commit suicide. According to other detainees the man got on the roof soon after 8am. The centre was put under lockdown and we have been unable to get any news of what happened to the man.
This event comes only a few weeks after a mass protest by detainees over being "treated like dogs" by the UK Borders Agency and prison authorities. Reports from inside Morton Hall indicate that at least two of those involved in that protest were sent to prisons in the aftermath and a man who was informing the media about what was going via the internet was marched out by a group of guards and hasn't been seen since.
Morton Hall has seen almost constant unrest since it opened about a year ago. Two detainees escaped soon after it opened and there was a significant protest about the arbitrary actions of the prison authorities in December last year, following which 18 detainees were transferred to prisons or other detention centres.
As politicians battle with one another to look the toughest on immigration and asylum, flouting EU human rights legislation by detaining people indefinitely, the tensions will continue to rise and the desperation of those locked up with no release date will continue to boil over behind the prison walls.
In solidarity with migrant struggles. Free movement for everyone!
TrapWire - surveillance system used in UK
14-08-2012 21:54
trying for the final time to get this information on indymedia
War Without Mercy in Syria
14-08-2012 19:03
If wars had labels, Syria's conflict would be called Made in America. Paul Wolfowitz and other Project for the New American Century
http://www.newamericancentury.org/ (PNAC) ideologues planned it years ago. They also targeted half a dozen or more other countries. PNAC's Statement of Principles called for "shap(ing) a new century favorable to American principles and interests." Doing so it said requires: Illegal eviction resistance tonight in Queen Square, Bristol
14-08-2012 01:46
ECF declared Institutionally Racist by father of Junior England Chess Player
13-08-2012 22:35
http://mswithacause.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/ecf-declared-institutionally-racist-by.html
Bio-metrics for visitors in UK Detention Centre
13-08-2012 16:02
Riots 2011: No Reason For Triumphalism
13-08-2012 15:53
A complex and insightul reflectin on last years's riots and the way they have been (most of the time wrongly) analised and romanticised in the anarchist and anti-authoritarian media.SMASH HLS! AstraZeneca Knock Out week of action
13-08-2012 12:28
Times are hard for the puppy killers at Huntingdon Life Sciences as job losses at both their UK sites leave about 100 abusers without jobs (www.shac.net/news/2012/july/31.html). Things aren't much better for their customers either, with leaderless AstraZeneca's profits dropping by over a third (www.shac.net/news/2012/july/27.html). Maybe they'd have better luck if they didn't spend their time torturing animals.
These financial problems have given us the perfect opportunity to get active in an August attack and knock out HLS' top customer AstraZeneca! The animals imprisoned inside HLS need us to fight for them - don't let AZ get away with murder at the world's most exposed animal testing lab.
Presentation and comments “We are the 1%”
13-08-2012 10:55
Class War - July 2012.
http://autistici.org/tridnivalka/
We present here a text we found on the Italian blog Finimondo (http://www.finimondo.org/) that our group T?ídní válka / Class War / Guerre de Classe also translated in Czech. We want to emphasize here the contempt we feel not only for the exploiting capitalist class, but also for all the reformers of this world of misery. This is what emerges from this leaflet and more especially with regard to the critique of the novice politicians who scour and contain the so-called movement of "indignados" and other "Occupy" so that both of them don't overstep the limits that reformism tries to give to them as a referential framework.
But this being said, we don't proclaim our belonging neither to any 99%, nor to this 1% that the text of Finimondo puts forward in somewhat provocative way as a class reply to pacifism, legalism, democratic illusions, which are developed and propounded by these movements as powerful limits of their own. The historic class struggle, class war, direct action that the proletariat always carried on, cannot under any circumstances, never, be reduced to this miserable arithmetic. No curve, no statistic, no figure, no percentage will never be able to express neither the suffering of humanity, nor the reply that our class has inflicted on this whole misery, and will inflict much more in the near future. Misery based on wage labour, extraction of surplus value, private property of production means, man's exploitation by man, production and consumption of commodities we don't possess but that on the contrary possess us...
What matters for all revolutionaries (whether they claim to be anarchist or communist it is not important at this level of the analysis), it is to grasp all movements of struggle of our class, the proletariat, as the intrinsic contradiction between revolution and counterrevolution, between forces that push to overthrow and destroy the capitalist social relations on one hand (social relations guaranteed by the State with its police, its army, its religion, its politics, its bosses, its unions, its press, its intellectuals...), and forces that assure the preservation of this hell on the other hand.
Of course, none of the social forces subverting this world are rigid or develop in a linear way, and even lesser none of them have a clear revolutionary perspective since the beginning of a struggle movement. Obviously, all struggles of our class is first and foremost a struggle against the existing living and working conditions, the conditions of reproduction, imposed by capital's necessities and its dictatorship. Therefore it is always fundamentally about a struggle against exploitation. It is also clear that often proletarians start their struggles while only denouncing "abuses" or "excesses" of capitalism, whereas other more radical proletarians put forward the very foundation of capitalism as the fundamental reason of the evils afflicting the humanity...
But it would be dangerous for the development of our struggles aiming at overthrowing this world and eradicating this merchant tumour to dig from these differences an insurmountable gap between different sectors of one and the same universal class carrying the same chains and having only one and the same interest, i.e. to break these chains and to free together the whole of the human race...
Class War - July 2012.
http://autistici.org/tridnivalka/
This presentation and comments are simultaneously published in three languages: Czech, English and French, not because we have efficient translators but for internationalism's sake on one hand, and because it's the result of a common activity of comrades speaking these different languages on the other hand.
(The text "We Are the 1%" can be read in English at the following address: http://www.finimondo.org/node/585).
Getting Used To Being Occupied
13-08-2012 09:59
The military occupation of London is an unprecedented multi-billion dollar showcase of military and security might... and it's not about protecting the public. It's there to accustom the public to an armed presence. The 2012 Olympics has been a multi-billion dollar excuse to militarize, weaponize and occupy the city of London with over 15, 000 armed troops, 12,500 police officers, massive surveillance teams, drones overhead, a war ship patrolling the Thames and surface-to-air missiles in public parks and on residential rooftops.Where is the balanced information on child vaccinations?
12-08-2012 19:18
Have you had to decide whether to vaccinate your child?Sussex Police Crime Commissioner
12-08-2012 17:10
David Joe Neilson Independent Candidate for Sussex Police & Crime Commissioner.US Republican Mitt Romney Picks a Bowhunter as Running Mate
12-08-2012 16:54
Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney's pick to run for the vice presidency of the US, advertises that he is a bowhunter. He has in the House engineered hundreds of billions at a time to kill people and animals illegally in other countries. He voted against legal protection for horses and against endangered species legislation.
Anti-Puppy Farming Demo - 26th August – Please Spread the Word!
12-08-2012 16:43
Dogs4us is a puppy warehouse. It has branches in Leeds and Manchester. Dogs4us was exposed in 2009 buying puppies from puppy mills and telling a customer who’s puppy became sick to ‘take it back for a refund’ as treating the puppy would cost to much!Australian PM Julia Gillard Has Target IS To Reduce Carbon Emissions
12-08-2012 11:59
New West Country Anarchist newspaper
12-08-2012 08:51
September 2012 will see a brand-spanking new 8-sided monthly radical newspaper for the South-West hit the streets – but to be a success, it needs YOU!“Threatening, Abusive and Insulting Words”
12-08-2012 08:24
Consequences of breaking the 2 Minute Silence.