London Social Struggles Newswire Archive

01-11-2013 14:55

JoNina and Lorenzo Ervin on Dissident Island Radio

Episode 128 on 18 October 2013, the night before the annual London Anarchist Bookfair, featured two seasoned activists from the USA. Read more >>

29-10-2013 15:20

Residential occupation in protest of council housing sell-off and Section 144

Housing activists have occupied a property owned by Southwark council which was due to be auctioned today at a starting price of £2.3 million.

They have occupied the building to stop the sell-off of yet more public housing stock when the borough faces a severe housing crisis with almost 25,000 people on the housing waiting list and increasing numbers of people forced to sleep rough on London’s streets. Read more >>

28-10-2013 08:38

Robb Johnson,Free Radicals + Socialist Magician 2 November London Earls Court

http://westkengibbsgreen.wordpress.com/save-earls-court/ Read more >>

27-10-2013 18:11

Solidarity Meeting

A number of well intentioned activists have come together to discuss the problems facing our movement, we feel the need and desire to approach areas of difference and conflict in a more constructive way. Read more >>

22-10-2013 13:57

Anti Fascist Action for Greece

AAfG call for a mass gathering outside St Paul's Cathedral

Sunday 27 Octomber 2013 at 02:00 p.m
Join AAfG - discuss the rise of fascism in Greece and what actions we should take as a collective.

Meeting point: Behine Queen Anne's statue, towards the shops and roads, and away from the Cathedral steps, to ensure we are not trespassing on Cathedral property. Read more >>

22-10-2013 01:45

Anniversary of Tower Hamlets Council being changed for the worse

Dated 16 October 2010, the London 'satirical fortnightly magazine' 'Private Eye' carried a 'Rotten Boroughs' entry that summed up the problem that the Labour Party in Tower Hamlets, East London, faced. Read more >>

20-10-2013 08:44

Syria Peace Vigil this Tuesday as foreign ministers meet in London

This Tuesday (22 October 2013), 11 foreign ministers and representatives of some Syrian opposition groups will meet in London to discuss the ongoing conflict in Syria and the upcoming Geneva peace talks:

http://www.gov.uk/government/news/foreign-secretary-announces-syria-ministerial-meeting-in-london

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/17/syrian-opposition-pressure-geneva-peace-conference

All peace-loving people are warmly invited to join an all day peace vigil (non-partisan) outside the Foreign Office, to put forward the following demands: Read more >>

19-10-2013 09:33

Abused Childrens Concert

Celebrity Concert at the o2 Arena 2014 to raise funds for he safe houses. Read more >>

13-10-2013 22:14

A4E and "Transforming Rehabilitation"

Transforming Rehabilitation is an upcoming Government Contract. A4e are bidding for it as a prime contractor. The truth is that A4e does not have the employees to deliver. So, regardless of any feelings (or rational arguments) one way or another about A4e, there is a clear problem. A4e are seeking to be paid between £5bn and £20bn over the next ten years for doing nothing more than they do for the Unemployed. Read more >>

08-10-2013 10:28

Harssament, illeghal eviction: what does the dpp of engalnd do?

The English DPP Kier Starmer QC is on his way out. He is often given unchallenged platform. Read more >>

06-10-2013 17:46

UKUncut Legal Aid Roadblock in Cambridge

Yesterday (Saturday 05/10/2013) UKUncut created a disruption to the usual flow of weekend consumerist reality in Cambridge by setting up a roadblock on East Road. Read more >>

06-10-2013 15:51

UK Uncut and DPAC block road in Legal Aid Cuts protest

A successful two hour long blockade of the Strand outside the London Royal Courts of Justice passed off without incident yesterday after disabled activists locked wheelchairs together with the support of UK Uncut activists. Read more >>

22-09-2013 09:56

#126: the Common House, Bent Bars, anarchism in Brazil & DJ BPM

another fantastic radio show from london's DIY radical radio crew, recorded and aired on 20 September 2013: Read more >>

19-09-2013 15:55

London Banner Drop in Rememberance of Killah P

Solidarity with a fallen Greek comrade. Banner drops today, street demonstrations and battles against fascists in weeks to come! Read more >>

14-09-2013 19:48

refuse to collaborate!

Open Letter

This is an appeal to friends, comrades and ‘organisers’ of protests. In light of the mass arrest of 286 anti-fascist protestors on 7th September (and Fortnum and mason, critical mass, BNP Whitehall etc) we appeal to all organisers of protests from whatever organisation to immediately cease from negotiating with the police in any form whatsoever and, for any protests currently being planned, that organisers withdraw immediately from communication with the police.

The police have become the protest organisers. It is they who organise what happens on the day, who goes where, what is said and not said, how the protest acts, behaves, moves and demonstrates. We have now not only a state sanctioned but state organised protest. Be effective and you are liable to mass arrest. Deviate from this meticulous state planning and you’re liable to mass arrest. We must not get used to this! Read more >>

14-09-2013 17:35

Fracking, Coal and Planning: The Story Of Westfield

Ed Davey the Sec of State for Energy and Climate Change has argued that with a robust regulatory and planning system there will not be environmental damage from Fracking. Here, this view is challenged, by using an example of environmental damage caused by opencast mining at the Westfield site in Fife. This example demonstrates how impotent the planning system is when systems of control break down

This press release from The Loose Anti Opencast Network, about what is currently happening in Scotland, where company bankruptcies have left up to 25 un-restored opencast mines, including Westfield, the subject of a recently published LAON report Read more >>

06-09-2013 11:32

EDL - and George Galloway's EDM. Check which MPs haven't signed yet

Ex Bethnal Green and Bow MP G Galloway has tabled an Early Day Motion against the EDL's threatened march in Tower Hamlets on Saturday 7 september 213 Read more >>

01-09-2013 20:53

Judicial Lynching In The State Of Texas in the US

Government murder continues in 7 US states Read more >>

29-08-2013 15:13

Cameron hasn't signed Crossrail Step-Free Access EDM.Nor has a Tower Hamlets MP!

Only a handful of MPs have bothered to sign up to the House of Commons Early day Motion [=EDM] supporting the demand that Crossrail stations are made step-free accessible. This is the fact on the UK House of Commons parliament.uk web site at the time of writing 1500 Hrs GMT Thursday 29 August 2013. What a contrast to the Dave Cameron fetish for war fare! He hasn't bothered to sign the EDM either. Nor has any MP from Tower Hamlets, present or recent past! Crossrail has been based at Canary Wharf in Tower Hamlets where campaigners handed in the Campaign Demand this lunchtime. Khoodeelaar! signed the DEMAND handed in. Read more >>

29-08-2013 09:11

An evening of Resistance to Fascism and Racism in the East End

Tower Hamlet residents and anti-fascists host a community gathering prior to EDL Counter-mobilisation on 7th September

Event: An evening of Resistance to Fascism and Racism in the East End
Date: Saturday 31st August, 6pm - 12am
Location: The Rag Factory, 16-18 Heneage St (off Brick Lane), London E1 5LJ Read more >>