UK Analysis Newswire Archive
Peace Held Hostage to Rotating US, Israeli Elections
10-11-2010 08:09
Once and again, then again and again, U.S. and Israeli elections bring about new players and governments that renege on the commitments, pledges and promises of their predecessors vis – a –vis the Arab – Israeli conflict in general and the Palestinian – Israeli peace process in particular, with an overall effect of being much more harmful to peace making than any forces of ‘extremism.”UG#523 - Ivan Illich & The Collapse of Power
10-11-2010 03:46
National United Kingdom Census – 2011
09-11-2010 16:47
New DIY booklet on building lockons
09-11-2010 12:34
A new DIY booklet is being produced containing notes on designing, constructing and using devices used for ‘locking-on’ during protest actions. It mostly focuses on the mechanics of lock-on devices rather than the actual tactics employed in using them. ‘Delia Smiths Blockading for Beginners’ and ‘The Direct Action Handbook’ will remain essential reading on how lockons are deployed as part of an action.It is very difficult to obtain reliable first hand information on the effectiveness of different lockon designs and construction methods. Most lockon actions end without the devices being subjected to being cut up and if they are then few people get to witness it happening and even fewer report back on the methods used or the difficulties experienced.
Below is a short questionnaire which will hopefully provide a way for useful first hand experiences to make their way into the booklet. If you have first hand experiences, please copy and paste the questioned into an email along with your answers and send to
armedforaction@gmail.com, or reply as a comment below.
UG#524 - Dispatches from The Chemical Civil War
08-11-2010 22:25
This week we continue looking at the toxic nature of the human separation from nature; we bring you 3 different pieces about the human engineering of toxic chemicals. First, an adaptation of Adam Curtis' BBC documentary Goodbye Mrs. Ant, on the rise and fall of the pesticide industry as purveyors of miracle cures, and how discovery of the pernicious effects of DDT lead to the growth of ecology and the environmentalist movement. Secondly, a 2009 interview with about the world's most fatal industrial chemical leak, the 1984 disaster in which a pesticide factory exploded in Bhopal. Finally, an interview with Emanuelle Schick-Garcia about her film, The Idiot Cycle, on how multinational chemical companies are both the world's biggest produce carcinogens and are intimately connected with the cancer treatment industry.
[POSTSCRIPT] Body-scan Alert - Not Suffering Indignities at Airports
08-11-2010 20:48
1) 'To opt out for a pat down, say “I opt out.”
2) 'Warning: Pat downs are no longer the simple search like those in the past. In some instances, as part of an “enhanced patdown,” the TSA screener may use the front of their hands to touch your genitals.
Should you feel that you or your child were inappropriately touched, call for a law enforcement officer.
If presented with the option to leave the checkpoint for a private screening, consider politely declining with a “No, thank you,” as you will likely be asked to remove your clothing. Pat downs can be performed in public view.'
3) Warning2: Should you sensibly choose to exercise that right, then you have to deal with the possible trauma of being groped and molested: 'TSA agents stand accused today of fondling the genitals of women and little children as part of their "enhanced pat-down" procedures being rolled out at airport security checkpoints.'
4) Warning3: Should you sensibly choose to quote your inalienable rights guaranteed by the Constitution to protect yourself and your loved ones from these vile indignities, you may have to deal with being labeled a "domestic terrorist"!
5) Based on this escalation path of making the price of discontent progressively costlier and costlier, the vast majority will simply choose the body-scan. That appears to be the strategic thinking behind these enhanced pat down procedures and the occasional case of vile molestation which will be widely reported!
US charity bribing UK drug addicts to sterilise selves in eugenics agenda
07-11-2010 15:51
I originally published this on Bristol Indymedia but the charity is targeting those it terms as drug addicts in London, Glasgow, Bristol, Leicester and parts of Wales.Fake anti-war activism. The “humanitarian road” towards an all out nuclear war?
06-11-2010 19:04
EDL, Brighton, the Crude Awakening, Anti-cuts marches - what can we learn?
05-11-2010 17:53
Lessons for the movement:The Poll Tax Riots and 4 weeks of actions – EDL, Brighton, the Crude Awakening, Anti-cuts marche. How can we learn and move forward.
boycott vodaphone demo newcastle tommrow 6th november
05-11-2010 17:14
demo against vodaphone tommrow 12pmDefending the state? Welfare cuts and the social wage
04-11-2010 00:19
Foreword 2010 Pakistan Decapitation Papers – A Report on the Banality of Evil
03-11-2010 23:10
France: More strikes, opposition to social austerity
03-11-2010 14:23
"The political bankruptcy of the existing parties and organizations is a historic challenge to the working class. In struggling to bring down Sarkozy’s government and block implementation of social cuts, the goal cannot be to bring to power a PS government. They must fight to build a workers’ government carrying out socialist policies, as part of an international struggle against capitalism in Europe and worldwide.The WSWS has called on workers and youth to create their own committees of action to coordinate their struggles, independent of the unions and bourgeois “left” parties. Readers in France are invited to contact the WSWS to help build a party in France to lead the fight for this perspective."
Anarchist and Working class bookfair in Newcastle, Sat 6th Nov
03-11-2010 13:08
Sat Nov 6th 2010 - The Worlds First Ever(!) Anarchist and Working Class Bookfairin Newcastle coincides with the BBC Radio 3 FREE THINKING festival this weekend.
Mushrooms & Bad waeather for Liberty Cap
02-11-2010 11:17
Weather conditions have not been right for Liberty caps this year.Shift Mag Issue#10: "Neither National nor International: Notes against Europe"
01-11-2010 23:09
As part of Shift Magazine's issue on borders and Fortress Europe, this article urges that the left to abandon its traditional attraction to the EU as a progressive political project that serves as a crucial counterbalance to global capitalism and American imperialism, in favour of a more radical position.BBC colludes with police to trivialise crime against ordinary people
01-11-2010 15:52
The Police trvialise and ignore crimes aginst ordinary people, whilst putting vast efforts into investigating more minor crimes against VIPs. The BBC, along with the rest of the media, seems to share the attitude of the police.Bristol's Transpersonals: fighting Lady Ga-Ga's occult music industry
31-10-2010 16:53
Psywar screening tonight in East London
31-10-2010 10:55
America threatens Iran: The anti-war movement's trojan horse
31-10-2010 10:30
After a period in which defending Iran hasn't been very high on the agenda of most U.S. anti-war activists, there are now two petition campaigns opposing war and sanctions against Iran.One effort is led by a New York City-based organization more known for defending Cuban “dissidents” who openly take U.S. money to try to undermine the Cuban Revolution. The other was launched by an independent Tehran-based organization formed to promote Iranian solidarity with Cuba, Venezuela and other progressive countries in Latin America.
Curiously, it's the first campaign that seems to be getting the most support.