London Analysis Newswire Archive

13-10-2007 09:25

Monopoly on Protest: Open Letter to CND and the Stop the War Coalition

This is an open letter to those who organised the demmostration against the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan last 8th of October. It is a reflexion on the law that forces protesters to request for permission to the police. Read more >>

11-10-2007 21:41

What's wrong with Stop the War Campaign?

Some reactions to the Not One More Death demo Read more >>

09-10-2007 21:46

A Veiled Threat?

"Despite not paying an annual membership fee to Hamas or Al-Qaeda, my choice to veil signifies that I am a radical." Read more >>

09-10-2007 16:48

Hospital blitz on deaths in custody

COPS are joining forces with hospital Accident & Emergency staff in a bid to prevent more deaths in custody. Around half of all deaths in police cells involve detainees with some form of mental health problem. Read more >>

07-10-2007 18:01

That Damned Marx

No matter what they say, the bourgeois cannot escape the fact that Marx's ideas still hold water after all these years. His analysis of the capitalist system, its laws and contradictions are as relevant today as they were 150 years ago. The serious journals of capitalism confirm this. Read more >>

07-10-2007 03:46

Corporate publishing houses

For all the bad press that they receive, a lot of people still believe that Western corporations are making some sort of contribution to improving the lot of people in the third world. Let me present a counter-example.

06-10-2007 20:53

Ubiquitous Surveillance: Mayor Bloomberg's New Clothes

New York City, London, Beijing: what do they have in common? surveillance cameras Read more >>

05-10-2007 15:05

7th Annual Claudia Jones Lecture by Theologian and BroadcasteDr. Robert Beckford

Seventh Annual Claudia Jones Memorial Lecture dedicated to the memory of the pioneer of Black journalism in Britain. This year's lecture will be delivered by Dr Robert Beckford, Reader in Black Theology and Popular Culture at Oxford Brookes University. An award-winning broadcaster for Channel Four, Dr. Beckford's lecture will explore how understanding "whiteness" offers an important strategy for community cohesion and democratic inclusion.
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05-10-2007 10:24

Prisons await a judgment

A report by the Forum for Preventing Deaths in Custody found that there were 600 deaths in prisons, police cells, secure hospitals and young offender institutions last year, 200 of which were self-inflicted. While the numbers of suicides in prisons fell marginally (from 78 in 2005 to 67 last year), more could still be done to protect prisoners. Read more >>

05-10-2007 08:08

Crassness at the core of the CROSSRAIL scam exposed!

The ECONOMIST website has 'let slip' in the last 20 hours that Gordon Brown's now trumpeted decision to 'give the go-ahead' to the CRASSrail scam was, indeed, a scam. Read more >>

04-10-2007 13:26

The Atmosphere Is Not For Sale

I feel like an eco-fraud. There’s me thinking that we should be protecting the land, the sea and the atmosphere from the profit motives of large corporations, and then a big group of like-minded people come along with a signed document saying the opposite and repeatedly hit you round the face with it.
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04-10-2007 02:10

Run on the bank @rampART

With the run on the Northern Rock bank still creating major ripples in the banking world (

http://news.google.co.uk/news?hl=en&q=run%20on%20the%20bank%20northern%20rock&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wn) we thought it was a good excuse to show the film 'Money as Debt' - an animated explanation of the history of money and banking... Read more >>

01-10-2007 20:32

Channel 4 Dispatches on Immigration Oct 1st 2007

Jon Snow's presentation of Dispatches expressed the real difficulty that we now have with a media that relies on 'research' that is partial and concentrates on the symptoms of problems rather than their real underlying cause. Plea for documentaries not shockumentaries... Read more >>

01-10-2007 19:03

Gordon Brown will lose credibility by aping Livingstone's Crossrail mantra

Gordon Brown has been quoted by the London Evening Standard website this evening [Monday 1 October 2007] as saying “…. London businesses and developers who will benefit significantly from Crossrail." Read more >>

01-10-2007 09:22

Last Hours #16 - radical culture magazine

The new issue of Last Hours is back from the printers; it's 116 pages packed full of articles, interviews, columns, comics and reviews about DIY culture, revolution, punk rock and autonomy. Read more >>

30-09-2007 21:45

Amerika Uber Alles -- Our Nazi Nation

Captain Eric H. May, the Internet intelligence writer, develops the disturbing thesis that we have indeed become the new Nazis. Readers will be surprised both by who helped him form idea and who, ultimately, is behind our Nazification. Read more >>

30-09-2007 20:55

Peace Strike speeches from 29th September

A couple of interesting speeches from the Pre-emptive Peace Strike on 29th September 2007 at Parliament Square, London Read more >>

26-09-2007 10:49

Report from Anti London Olympics/regeneration march and meeting plus comment

Many people marched to voice their concern over the London Olympic project and other so-called regeneration schemes. Read more >>

25-09-2007 13:24

The Cuban Five

I attended a briefing by Leonard Weinglass (he of the Daniel Ellsberg/Pentagon Papers fame, of the Amy Carter tribulations, and other famous efforts to achieve justice against at times huge odds) at Howard University's Law School on Wednesday, 12 September. I was stunned by what counselor Weinglass revealed... Read more >>

22-09-2007 04:28

The Respect coalition is in crisis!

Far be it from Uncle Joe to gloat, but I have to say that you heard it here on Indymedia first, a good 21 months before Newsnight got hold of the story. Read more >>