London Social Struggles Newswire Archive

20-12-2007 22:37

rampART losses possesion case but buys two more weeks

Today the rampART social centre lost in court against a claim for possession. A possession order will now be granted although not until the 3rd Jan 2008.

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20-12-2007 10:57

Support The Harmondsworth 4!

Demonstrate 7 January 2008
9am onwards

at Southwark Crown Court
1 English Grounds
(off Battlebridge Lane)
Southwark
London SE1 2HU
(nearest tube London Bridge) Read more >>

18-12-2007 14:30 | 1 addition

London Home Office HQ Blockaded by Refugee Support Groups

9.45am, 18 December 2007: Five people from refugee support groups including No Borders London managed to successfully blockade the front entrance of the Home Office headquarters on Marsham Street in London. Read more >>

16-12-2007 15:46

CrossRail has contaminated fragile climate of legality in UK parliament

How? By the secret promoters of CrossRail hole plot [‘the CrossRail Bill’, now set to be formally 'considered' in the House of Lords following the 'Third Reading' see more below], Big Business interests and agenda-setters like the USA giant Bechtel, to dictate how the ‘sovereign’ UK and its ‘elected’ parliament and Govt should behave! This is what has been seen in the latest exhibition of ‘parliamentary sovereignty’ as displayed in the House of Commons three days ago when MPs of all parties acted openly as poodles with not a singe recorded move by a single MP against CrossRail at this finalizing procedural stage! The ‘Party’ which has been alleged to have introduced ‘Mr Bean’ into the so-called lexicon learned discourse in ‘ the mother of parliaments’, exposed its own infinite idiocy by competing fur space to show just how pathetically full of ignorance and lack of substance it was…. This is why the Khoodeelaar! Campaign has to carry on with the task that fills that gap s brazenly created by the bankruptcy of the time serving, unrepresentative and overpaid MPs… Read more >>

15-12-2007 18:21

Totalitarian Oil get out of Burma protest in Chiswick

On Thursday 13th December, eight protesters campaigned at the Total Oil
station at 137 Chiswick High Road against Total's funding of the repressive
regime in Burma. Read more >>

15-12-2007 14:20

Brian Haw's alternative Christmas message

Check out Brian's message to the world at Christmas.
The Queen's speech.... Blah! This is the one that matters!! Read more >>

14-12-2007 17:16

Call To Action:Christmas Demo for Housing 17th Dec 6pm Hackney Town Hall

Hackney “Scrooge” won’t house us: We won’t be turned away

Hackney Town Hall, Mare Street E8 [

http://www.tiny.cc/vdevt]
MONDAY THE 17TH OF DECEMBER
6 - 7:30 PM
Read more >>

14-12-2007 15:39

London: Improvements for the homeless

A new campaign to improve the lot of homeless people in London has been gathering steam after it was launched by the London Coalition Against Poverty (LCAP), finds Freedom newspaper. Read more >>

13-12-2007 11:18

SOCPA cycling.

Why are drivers allowed to play their sound systems in the SOCPA zone but not cyclists? Read more >>

12-12-2007 17:11

rampART gets eviction papers

The rampART social centre in London today received court papers for repossesion on the grounds of Tresspass. The hearing date is the 20th Dec. Read more >>

12-12-2007 10:25

Venezuela Film Screening Tonight

Free screening of great new documentary tonight Read more >>

11-12-2007 16:24

Ken Livinstone At Death Zone 1 Kings Cross BBC1 ITN and...insults the poor

Amid pandemic fears Ken Livingstone went on telly to promote future death zone 1 Rail / tube station Kings Cross / St Pancras and manages to insult London's poor at the same time! Read more >>

11-12-2007 15:19 | 1 addition

Demonstrators Blockade Mexican Embassy in London

Today Monday 10th December demonstrators blockaded both the Mexican Embassy and Mexican Consulate in London, in solidarity with the Zapatistas and in opposition to the attacks on their communities by the state and paramilitaries.
Read more >>

11-12-2007 11:47

Support the Villagers of Nandigram!

Support the villagers of Nandigram, W Bengal against eviction from land and corporate greed. Read more >>

10-12-2007 06:11

IWW commence build-up to major assault on NBS bosses

With new phase of IWW campaign against 600 job cuts, the wobblies launch massive recruitment drive. Centres in Brentwood and Tooting are slated for closure. The IWW is going to save them. Read more >>

08-12-2007 12:11

More traffic cam censorship?

Prevented from watching London demonstrations on traffic cams? Read more >>

07-12-2007 18:16

Coca-Cola’s Corporate Crimes: The Case of Colombia

Update on CocaCola workers’ union Sinaltrainal’s heroic struggle against the multinatinational’s ongoing brutal and ruthless attempts to ensure it has no presence in the plants Read more >>

06-12-2007 22:58

Pre-emptive peace strike: Don't attack Iran

We the peace Strike are no longer prepared to stand by and let our brothers and sisters of any country to be victims of the mass global corporate greed that instigates unacceptable aggression towards innocent civilian populations. Read more >>

06-12-2007 14:48

ACTSA hold protest about Mugabe's visit to Portugal

Report on protest about Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe being invited to the EU-Africa summit in Portugal Read more >>

05-12-2007 20:23

Meeting to discuss NUS democracy and way forward for the student left - Sunday

A meeting open to all left student activists to discuss the way forward. Read more >>