London Social Struggles Newswire Archive

11-05-2013 15:54

Is a most deprived Tower Hamlets COUNCIL, right to carry out Tory attacks?

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'.
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10-05-2013 08:27

Press release - Anti-Capitalists publish map of targets in the West End

PRESS RELEASE

Anti-Capitalists are targeting the rich in the West End of London in the
run-up to the G8 Summit next month. Read more >>

09-05-2013 22:44

Call for an Anti-Militarist Action against the G8 on June 12th

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/ Read more >>

09-05-2013 14:40

LAON's April Review of English Opencast Sites

This review updates information on planning developments affecting new English Opencast sites. In addition, it has information on the sites that would be affected if UK Mine Holdings / UK Coal Operations were, as recent press stories indicate, to go into administration. In addition it has news on the the land slip at Hatfield Colliery, latest developments over the Helsley Wood Tip and opencast mining on the Canobie Coalfield. Read more >>

07-05-2013 13:34

Residents rally at 6 PM at Trahorn Close E1 focuses on Tower Hamlets Council

Tower Hamlets Council's transfer of Council housing stock was done under dubious
promises. One promise Tower Hamlets Council made was that tenants, residents would enjoy the same rights when their homes were taken over by the "social landlords" as they had enjoyed under Council control.
This evening, Tuesday 07 May 2013, residents at the Trahorn Close, near Vallance Road, are rallying to question Tower Hamlets Council's pledge.
They have already petitioned the Borough’s “executive Mayor” Lutfur Rahman demanding action over the “social landlord” outfit’s behaviour. Read more >>

30-04-2013 20:27

May 6th Greek Info Night @ Pogo Cafe

Greek Info Night. Monday 6th May. 7.30pm Read more >>

30-04-2013 17:32

At Your Service (Tales from Community Service)

Article written by contributor who is currently serving a 120 hour community payback order, in which they are required to do a program of unpaid work for the terrible "community"1. This Article forms the First part of a short series detailing different aspects and analysis of the community payback program, from thinking about the actions being performed and their implications to offering a kind of insight into what this shit is actually like. Please distribute to anyone you know who might be about to get sentenced to community payback. Read more >>

29-04-2013 21:21

Brighton Green Party compares staff strike proposals to winter of discontent

Having voted for Council officers to implement cuts to staff take home pay of up to £95 per week a leading Brighton Green Party Councillor has said compared staff strike proposals to the winter of discontent Read more >>

28-04-2013 17:56

Protest in London

Demand for an End to the Attacks on the Zapatista Support Base Community of San Marcos Avilés Read more >>

23-04-2013 21:20

Call out for action - UK and Germany calls for Brazil to halt Belo Monte dam

Action for the Amazon is planning to hold a small fluffy demo out side the Brzillian embassy on Friday the 26th April. Please come and show your support for the Achaur tribe who's land will be flooded, and call the Brazillian government to halt the dam buiding.
We plan to take potted plants to the embassy to offer them somthing to re-plant with. Read more >>

22-04-2013 03:42

The Many, many Charges Against Margaret Thatcher

The legacy of Margaret Thatcher is complex and an emotional response to her passing is not enough. Working class people must realise that her work is incomplete and has been picked up the current batch of young, ruthless, elitist tories, masquerading as a reformed party. Masks change, not the agend. Read more >>

21-04-2013 21:59

Make tower hamlets Council truthful - or a local 'mayor' may sink as Ken did!

UK Communities Secretary Eric Pickles may be in for a surprise welcome in a most
untypical zone - the inner city, routinely "deprived" East London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
Pickles may not be even aware himself that he may be the leader of a subliminal movement progressing modestly across Tower Hamlets that may end up with sinking Lutfur Rahman in the forthcoming 'mayor poll' in May 2014. Read more >>

19-04-2013 13:02

Shell to Sea campaigner to speak in Bristol, Leeds & Manchester

Local resident and Shell to Sea campaigner Terence Conway will be speaking in Bristol, Leeds & Manchester to give an update on campaign against Shell in Ireland & promote the Rossport Solidarity Camp week of action happening there in June. Read more >>

18-04-2013 16:53

Get tooled up in Bristol this Saturday!

Thatcher may be dead but now we need to kill off her legacy. Come and dip into the activist toolbox this Saturday, for all the tools you'll need to join the struggle against capital and the state. Then let's go to work...bring on the north west European spring! Read more >>

15-04-2013 23:17

The roll-out of tasers will make minority groups targets once again

PUBLIC MEETING: to discuss new 24hr Taser patrols in every London borough. There has been no consultation and evidence shows they are disproportionately used against ethnic minorities, people with mental ill health and young people. Join us at 7pm on April 22, at Chats Palace, 42-44 Brooksby Walk, Homerton, E9 6DF Read more >>

15-04-2013 19:26 | 1 addition

Margaret Thatcher owned £6m house linked to THREE tax havens

Margaret Thatcher owned £6m house linked to THREE tax havens -

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/margaret-thatcher-tax-snatcher-mystery-1828441 Read more >>

10-04-2013 18:28

US Governors Shred Freedom Of Speech Re Filming Animal Slaughter

US government and 3 states have criminalized exposing slaughterhouse, factory farm and laboratory torture. Read more >>

10-04-2013 18:24

8 April every week Witch is Dead DAY

I suggest 08 April every year be an annual marking of the end of 'her' Read more >>

10-04-2013 01:40

Freedom Flotilla West Papua

Indigenous Elders from Australia & West Papua are planning a Freedom Flotilla to West Papua in solidarity against the apartheid of colonisation and destruction caused by multinational mining companies on Indigenous land in West Papua & Australia.
They are being actively supported by a coalition of environmental and
human rights activists, artists and musicians from all over Australia. Read more >>

09-04-2013 19:59

Barnardo's windows smashed in Brixton - it was us

On the celebration of Thatcher's death, we smashed a window of Barnardo's 'charity shop' in Brixton using a concrete slab from a bin on the street. And it was easy. We would of done more if it weren't for self-proclaimed pacifists violently attempting to arrest us. Read more >>