UK Newswire Archive
Aber to Athens Night of Solidarity
12-05-2013 16:51
Solidarity gig in West Wales, All welcome!David Graeber talks in London, Tuesday 21 May.
12-05-2013 15:15
Tuesday, May 21 6.15–9.00 pm.
Venue: The St Martinʼs Community Centre
43 Carol St, London NW1 0HT (2 minutes from Camden tube)
http://www.radicalanthropologygroup.org No Human Being Is Illegal.
12-05-2013 14:55
Prisons: Factories Of Hate
11-05-2013 23:55
Right-wing Tory Justice Minister Chris Grayling's declaration in late April that prisoners would now be made to “earn” basic privileges by “working harder” probably wasn't just the usual “popularist” promise to stick the boot into one of the most powerless and demoralised social groups. During times of economic austerity and potential social unrest scapegoating marginalised and outcast groups like prisoners, is always useful as a means of deflecting and re-focusing public anger away from the true culprits of the country's economic ruination, in this case Grayling's pals in the city of London. Behind the rhetoric and the guise of “getting tough” on prisoners is the actual purpose of the prison industrial complex: to turn prisons into privatised forced-labour factories.Is a most deprived Tower Hamlets COUNCIL, right to carry out Tory attacks?
11-05-2013 15:54
Tower Hamlets is notorious deprived, crisis-ridden, wrong-headed local Borough Council. Right now, its head of legal is involved in a most secretive employment tribunal tussle being very strangely held only yards from the main Council Town Hall. The Central Govt has repeatedly condemned the Council Administration for wasting public money on running a propaganda organ called East End Life, aka 'Tower Hamlets Town Hall's very own pravda'.UG#636 - Bilking The Afflicted (Addiction, Drugs & Capitalism)
11-05-2013 15:33
BBC using fraud & price fixing suspects KPMG to deliver their 'business news'
11-05-2013 12:20
People's Assembly
11-05-2013 10:55
Same old nonsense.
The latest leftist bandwagon is the People’s Assembly to be held in Nottingham on 18th. May and in London on 22nd. June. It is supposed to be bringing people together to fight the Coalition Government’s austerity programme. Will it succeed?
So far resistance to the cuts has been pretty pathetic. The public sector trade union leaders have mostly capitulated to the Government’s attacks on jobs and pensions. As for Trotskyist and revisionist “communist” organisations, most of them have been trying to subvert the anti-cuts movement into support for the Labour Party. This despite the fact that Labour is in favour of cuts in public spending and not one Labour-controlled local council has defied the Government. In most localities the anti-cuts movement was still born thanks to the Trots trying to divert it into support for Labour.
The People’s Assembly will simply be more hot air directed at trying to ginger up the Labour Party. One strand will be calls to support the “left” inside the Labour Party so that it opposes austerity measures and adopts more radical policies. This line, put forward by UNITE, is an old one and generations of experience show that it does not work. The Labour Party is not a democratic organisation with policy determined by its members, very few of whom are at all radical. The leaders decide everything and the members do what they are told.
The other strand will be calls for a new left alliance or organisation to stand candidates in elections. The idea is to put pressure on Labour to move leftwards by challenging it at the polling booths. This has been tried before with ventures such as Socialist Alliance and Respect. These sort of candidates usually receive a derisory vote and pose no serious threat to support for Labour.
The participants in the People’s Assembly are the same old, tired leftists who have shown themselves as having nothing new to offer. The dominant message which will come through, one way or another, is “Vote Labour!”
Religion - is - Politics!
11-05-2013 08:52
Given the re-emergence of 'armed' fundamentalist religion in the middle east and the calls for Shariah law to become operational in the UK and Europe this article considers how and why religion has started to challenge for political power and how mainstream politics often mimics the form of a religion.Welsh Anti-Drones Conference
10-05-2013 22:04
Drone Warfare - From Wales to GazaSaturday 25 May, 1.30 - 5.30 pm
Wallace Lecture Theatre, Main Building, Cardiff University, Park Place
Welsh Anti-Drones Conference
American "Leftist" TV Show Promotes Pigeating
10-05-2013 20:58
one hour on publicly owned airwaves to promote the toxic disease, environmental devastation, animal agony, energy waste and expense of eating mammals.
Baloch Nation Completely Boycott Pakistani Elections on May 11th 2013
10-05-2013 17:49
Baloch Nation completely bycott up coming pakistani election 11 may 2013
Shutting down Athens Indymedia: state repression of the Greek anarchist movement
10-05-2013 10:55
Reblogged from Anarchist Federation Scotland: Guest post by a Greek anarchist living in Scotland.
Τhe last few years have been a time of global capitalist crisis, where the financial system has, after two decades of frantic over-accumulation and fake development, collapsed yet again. The neoliberal promises of continuous development reached an end and we are all facing the results of this collapse, depending on the country in which we are living. The purpose of this article is to make a brief report of the latest repressive practices of the Greek state against the anarchist movement and Greek society in general as a result of this systemic crisis of capitalism.
NZ Spy Agency suing Waihopai Ploughshares following acquittal
10-05-2013 09:59
On the first day of the Waihopai Ploughshares' Court of Appeal hearing in Wellington, Waihopai Ploughshares' supporters gave their clothes to the Prime Minister John Key, at parliament. This action inspired by the teachings of Jesus, "if any man will sue you at the law, and take away your coat, let him have your shirt as well" (Matthew 5:40). SLIDESHOW http://tinyurl.com/buafx2r
Press release - Anti-Capitalists publish map of targets in the West End
10-05-2013 08:27
PRESS RELEASEAnti-Capitalists are targeting the rich in the West End of London in the
run-up to the G8 Summit next month.
the Black Rose Syndicat are pleased to announced we are ready for take-off
10-05-2013 02:16
We have deliberately re-organised ourselves to be a Sand Dune type Syndicat.
Hunger and thirst strikes in the Netherlands
10-05-2013 01:15
CALL FOR SOLIDARITY WITH HUNGER AND THIRST STRIKERS IN DETENTION CENTERS IN THE NETHERLANDSpublic indictment against the system of repression we call Fortress Europe.
Call for an Anti-Militarist Action against the G8 on June 12th
09-05-2013 22:44
This is a call to all anti-militarists to join us in the West End of London during the week of action against the G8. - for more info see https://network23.org/stopg8/