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"Fuck Tory Scum!"

18-05-2015 22:05

On this day 70 years ago joyous drunken revellers danced in the Mall and jumped in the fountains at Trafalgar Square – and today it’s a crime to drink outdoors. Now formally bustling public houses are virtually empty of local people. Not surprising, where a pint of beer can cost more than a meal in this land of austerity and taxes and cuts imposed by the Conservative Party.

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Whistleblower McNeilly's statements compared

18-05-2015 16:57

Able Seaman William McNeilly, an engineer with the Royal Navy, has exposed critical issues with the safety and security of Britain's Trident nuclear weapons system (based at Faslane) and has made a number of statements.

The attached pdf compares these statements. Main variations are towards the beginning and end of the text.

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Workshop recordings from #SheffBookfair

17-05-2015 21:47

Audio from Workshops and discussions at the Bookfair

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Royal Navy Sub Engineer blows whistle on Trident Nuclear Weapons System

17-05-2015 07:10

William McNeilly, Royal Navy Submarine Engineer, who says he is now on the run, describes critical safety and security issues with the Trident nuclear weapons system. He writes:

"This... document will enlighten you to the shockingly extreme conditions that our nuclear weapons system is in right now, and has been in the past..."

"British, Americans, Chinese, Indians, Russians... We are all the same; most people all across the globe just want to live in peace. That peace can no longer be maintained by nuclear weapons (Fear)"

and calls for "a new world order through peace and unity."

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IWW Introduction and Prefigurative Politics recordings from #SheffBookfair

16-05-2015 23:26

Attached are two recordings from the Sheffield Anarchist Bookfair which was held on 16th May 2015 in the Workstation, the first is a short introduction to the Sheffield Branch of the IWW (Industrial Workers of the World)

https://iwwgmbsheffield.wordpress.com/ and the second is a presentation and discussion on Prefigurative Politics and Anarchism.

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Magna Carta - Festival For Democracy

16-05-2015 14:52

Runnymede Eco Village community in Surrey are holding a festival in the name of democracy in close proximation to the planned 800th year Magna Carta national celebrations, which Queen Elizabeth will attend.

The event , which has been named the Festival For Democracy, is co-organised with New Putney Debates and Occupy Democracy. It will host talks and debates on the issues of democracy, land rights and other rights relating to Magna Carta, with a variety of workshops throughout the day to be followed by poetry and music.

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Earth First! Summer Gathering 2015 - 19th-24th Aug, Peak District

16-05-2015 14:28

Five days of skill-sharing for grassroots ecological direct action - make links, share ideas, and get involved in the struggles against fracking, new roads and more

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Stalls at the Anarchist #SheffBookfair on today at the Workstation

16-05-2015 11:48

Some photos of some of the stalls at the Sheffield Anarchist Bookfair which is on today, 16th May 2015, at the Workstation.

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Sheffield Bookfair Tomorrow! #sheffbookfair

15-05-2015 18:12

Sheffield Anarchist Bookfair - Venue and Workshops

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Revolution In Rojava: Strengths And Challenges - London talk, eye-witness account

10-05-2015 18:27

The Revolution In Rojava: Strengths And Challenges
An eye-witness account by Jeff Miley

Tuesday, May 26, 6.45pm

In the upstairs function room at Cock Tavern, 23 Phoenix Road, London NW1 1HB. (Euston station)

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Banners for Anarchist Prisoner Emma Sheppard and Others

08-05-2015 11:33

Two banners were hung from a bridge over the M32 motorway into central Bristol during the morning rush hour on Thursday April 30th.

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Occupiers of Bank of England building turned homeless shelter make demands

29-04-2015 15:24

Occupiers of a former Bank of England Building in Liverpool who have been told they will be served with a possession order have issued a statement of intent and made ten demands which they say must be met up until which point they will continue to peacefully resist their eviction from the Bank turned homeless shelter.

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World Lab Day comes to Cambridge (pt 2)

28-04-2015 22:19

Second part of World Lab Day story, with more pictures.

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World Lab Day comes to Cambridge (pt 1)

28-04-2015 21:52

Last Saturday (April 25th 2015) about 1,000 Animal Rights demonstrators descended upon Cambridge under the auspices of the annual World Lab Day demonstration.

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Report & Pics: Anzac Day in Wales - Remembering a Pioneer for Peace

28-04-2015 19:28

On Saturday 25 April, over 50 people came together in Llangollen, Wales, on the centenary of the first Gallipoli landings to celebrate the very long life of Elisabeth (Lib) Rowlands-Hughes, born at the end of WWI into a family missing most of its young men.

Lib firmly believed that the lesson of WWI, a war which claimed the lives of four of her uncles, should be NEVER AGAIN. As an early member of the Peace Pledge Union, Lib made the following vow:

I renounce war, and am therefore determined not to support any kind of war. I am also determined to work for the removal of all causes of war

and this is what she did for the rest of her life.

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Wiping the smug look off the face of capitalism!

22-04-2015 17:52

When a young anti-capitalist leapt on to the desk in front of European Central Bank president Mario Draghi when he was giving a press conference in Frankfurt on April 15, the look on Draghi's face was priceless.

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Locals Protest Outside Housing Exhibition.

17-04-2015 23:34

On Thursday April 16th 2015 many local people assembled outside Cambridge Corn Exchange in response to a property exhibition hosted there.

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April The 12th, Solidarity From Brighton With The Anarchists Imprisoned In Spain

15-04-2015 16:59

From Brighton, solidarity with the anarchists imprisoned in Spain.

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Mayday! Reclaim the Beats!! - Join the Fuck Parade!

11-04-2015 17:33

Fuck the Poor Doors, fuck social segregation, fuck Taylor McWilliams, fuck Redrow, fuck the City, fuck luxury flats, fuck the 1%, fuck royalty, fuck the upper class, fuck upper class raves, fuck yuppies it's not the fucking 80s, fuck hipsters, fuck paying to party, fuck £5 a pint, fuck capitalism, fuck racism, fuck borders, fuck Theresa May, fuck the criminal justice act, fuck homophobia, fuck transphobia, fuck patriarchy, fuck fascists, fuck the police, fuck G4S, fuck bailiffs, fuck UKIP, fuck Nigel fucking Farage, fuck his toady face, fuck bourgeois parliamentarianism, fuck the tories, fuck the Liberals, fuck Labour, fuck the DWP, fuck IDS, fuck sanctions, fuck ATOS, fuck MI5, fuck surveillance, fuck GCHQ, fuck the arms industry, fuck environmental destruction, fuck big oil, fuck cars, fuck animal exploitation, fuck the rich, fuck bankers, fuck bosses, fuck landlords, fuck public schools, fuck Oxbridge, fuck the Bullingdon Boys, fuck Boris.................Fuck them all

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Heartless Guzzlers at the public trough @B_I_tweets

11-04-2015 09:54

So far 49 DWP investigations into deaths related to benefit sanctions - add to that a massive growth in the use of food banks by the sanctioned and we have the grim picture of poverty in the UK. The kick ‘em when their down approach to behavioral modification was "invented" by the Behavioral Insights Team at one time embedded in the Cabinet Office.