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CURO Housing Bedroom Tax victims hit with 7.1% rent hike

31-03-2013 09:06 | Social Struggles | Wales | World

Bedroom Tax saves £1m in HB bill. Rent rise of 7.1% increases HB bill by £3m.

Bristol bookfair after-party fundraiser info

24-03-2013 21:22 | Culture | Social Struggles | Wales | World

Bristol Anarchist Bookfair Collective brings you a night of radical music to wind down to after the 2013 Bookfair - kick back and dance yer boots off!
This is a split fundraiser for us and Bristol Defendant Solidarity. Any funds raised that we do not need will be shared out to other groups locally, as usual.

Is Welsh Planning Policy for Coal about to Hit the Buffers?

The new Welsh Minister for Housing and Regeneration, Mr Carl Seargent, is about to make a decision on the Varteg Hill Opencast site application. If he decides to uphold the Appeal recommendation arising from a recent Public Inquiry it could set a new precedent for how all other Welsh opencast site applications are decided. It could have even wider repercussions across England and Scotland as well. This press release explains why.

LAON's Feb-March 2013 of Welsh Opencast Sites

This review carries news items on the state of opencast mine proposals in Wales, especially the latest news about the Varteg and East Pit proposal. It also provides some information about who Miller Argent are, the Company mining at Ffos-y-Fran and who mau be submitting a new opencast proposal for the Nant Llesg site in Gwent

Call For an Open Debate on the Use of Coal

Yesterday, the Government announced that it was to develop a short to medium term strategy for coal in light of the closure of Daw Mill. In it's 22nd Press Release, The Loose Anti Opencast Network calls for widening this discussion to include groups affected by the impact of opencast mining

Coal and the Risks Faced by Planning Authorities

This press release recounts the problems beseting the UK Coal Indusrty such as the fire at Daw Mill, the decline in the demand for coal for power generation purposes, lack of willingness to invest in coal, downward pressure on coal prices, pollution caused by coal being responsible fro premature deaths. Yet despite all this the Government wants to make it easier to dig it up!! See what you can do at this late stage to stop this plan it its tracks!!

LAON's February Review of English Opencast Sites

This review details the latest development on known actual and potential opencast sites in England, plus providing additional information on Air quality Issues and Opencast Mining, the Welsh Varteg Petition, Derelict and Unrestored English Sites and news affecting Hargreaves Services and UK Coal.

The WREXHAM-STAR.......... Phoenix from the Ashes !

Established 1934 ~ Re-established 2013

Urgent: Imminent eviction in San Marcos Avilés

URGENT REPORT:

IMMINENT EVICTION PLANNED,

TERROR GROWS IN SAN MARCOS AVILÉS

February 23, 2013:

Propaganda for the 2013 Bristol anarchist bookfair available now

Roll up roll up it's yer Bristol anarchist bookfair propaganda extravaganza - words and images to inspire action, and of course to seduce you along to the bookfair!

ABC Belarus Infotour in Cardiff next weekend

15-02-2013 18:06 | Social Struggles | Wales | World

On Friday the 23rd of Feb. @ 6pm there will be an info talk by a member of Belarus ABC at the Wells Hotel.

Stop G8 Benefit gig

13-02-2013 09:57 | G8 2013 | Culture | Social Struggles | Wales

A night of frantic hardcore punk and thrash - benefit for Stop G8.

Thursday 7th March: 200 Club Newport - £3 advance

CURO Housing tenants faced with stark choices this April

09-02-2013 12:36 | Social Struggles | Wales | World

CURO Housing landlord gives 1000 of its tenants 3 choices 1) move out 2) take in lodger 3) pay bedroom tax

Solidarity with friends of Saleh family arrestees.

07-02-2013 23:56 | Anti-racism | Migration | Social Struggles | Wales

SUPPORT THE TWO FRIENDS OF THE SALEH FAMILY WRONGLY ARRESTED DURING THE DAWN RAID ON THE FAMILY HOME.
18/02/2013 @ Cardiff Magistrates Court

Does the UK Need nealy 50 New Opencast Mines?

The 20th LAON press release highlights a recent estimate that 47 new sites for opencast or the surface mining of coal are in the planning pipeline, 15 in England, 25 in Scotland and 7 in Wales. At the same time UK Coal Mining acknowledges that the demand for coal is going to drop significantly - hence the title of the press release

Storming The Heavens !

Alternatives to Capitalism Meeting: 31st January 2013

Storming the Heavens (open forum for anti capitalists)
is series of meetings for reds and greens to discuss and explore
alternatives to the current economic system.

PR 19 '2013- A Crunch Year for Coal and the UK Coal Industry

This press release explains why this is an important year for the UK Coal Industry. The industry awaits the outcome of decisions that have to be made this year by Generating Companies, on whether they will adapt their coal firing power stations to meet new European Pollution Standards. If they do not, the use of coal for power generation could fall from over 41m in 2011 to 7m in 2023, thus significantly reducing the demand for opencast coal, if the UK Coal industry can survive that long.

December 2012 Review of New UK Opencast Sites

This edition of the review shows that 26 new sites are under consideration, 13 in England, 7 in Wales and 6 in Scotland. It also has information on what the implications of restructuring of UK Coal plc may mean for its surface mine operations, the implications of trying to rescue ATH Resources, the Hesley Wood Tip planning meeting and the Growth and Infrastructure Bill, Clause 21 - now clause 23.

Does the Energy Bill Herald An End To Opencast Mining?

LAON's 17th Press Release analyses what the effect of implementing the 2012 Energy Bill will be on the UK Surface Mine Coal Industry. The prognosis is that it faces medium to long term decline. As a consequence, over time, the strength of the current 'Need for Coal' arguments will slowly weaken. However, it may not come soon enough to prevent two new 9 and 10m tonne surface mines from being developed, one in Scotland and the other in Wales.

The Clause 21 Growth and Infrastructure Bill Threat: More Info

01-12-2012 15:54 | Climate Chaos | Social Struggles | Sheffield | Wales

'If the Government gets it's way, are we likely to get more 'mothballed'opencast sites pock-marking our countryside'

On Tuesday, the HoC Growth and Infrastructure Public Bill Committee are likely to debate Clause 21 of the Bill to which we have lodged an objection.

This press release highlights what might be at stake if the Government pushes ahead with its plans to ease the means by which planning permission for new opencast sites can be given for new surface mine sites, just when the UK Coal Industry, increasingly reliant on surfaced mined coal, experiences a financial crisis and a significant decline in the UK's ability to burn coal. We may indeed be left with a pock-marked countryside as a consequence.

Wales Social Struggles Newswire Archive

CURO Housing Bedroom Tax victims hit with 7.1% rent hike

Bristol bookfair after-party fundraiser info

Is Welsh Planning Policy for Coal about to Hit the Buffers?

LAON's Feb-March 2013 of Welsh Opencast Sites

Call For an Open Debate on the Use of Coal

Coal and the Risks Faced by Planning Authorities

LAON's February Review of English Opencast Sites

The WREXHAM-STAR.......... Phoenix from the Ashes !

Urgent: Imminent eviction in San Marcos Avilés

Propaganda for the 2013 Bristol anarchist bookfair available now

ABC Belarus Infotour in Cardiff next weekend

Stop G8 Benefit gig

CURO Housing tenants faced with stark choices this April

Solidarity with friends of Saleh family arrestees.

Does the UK Need nealy 50 New Opencast Mines?

Storming The Heavens !

PR 19 '2013- A Crunch Year for Coal and the UK Coal Industry

December 2012 Review of New UK Opencast Sites

Does the Energy Bill Herald An End To Opencast Mining?

The Clause 21 Growth and Infrastructure Bill Threat: More Info

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