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Russell Brand + Caroline Lucas Join Anonymous Protests

05-11-2013 21:08

400 Anonymous demos taking place-world-wide! News coverage of the Guy Fawkes Night demo in London.......................

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FBU Cambridge Picket.

04-11-2013 19:03

Flying the flag...
On Thursday November 31st, the Cambridge branch of the Fire Brigades Union called a strike from 6:30pm to around 11:30pm.

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Elish Angiolini And The ROTHSCHILD FAMILY

02-11-2013 19:11

This is who and what her real bosses do and are

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MP Dennis Skinner lambasting ATOS in House of Commons last Wednesday

22-10-2013 18:54

The Labour party backbencher Dennis Skinner MP asked the Prime Minister David Cameron a question in Prime Ministers’ Questions in the House of Commons on Wednesday 16th October 2013 about ATOS - the French multinational IT services corporation who are the Department for Work & Pension's contractor carrying out the benefit system's Work Capability Assessment, raising a tragic case of one of his constituents, to a largely respectful and silent House-of-Commons, as the gravity of Skinner's sad and tragic story about this particular constituent hit home...

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UKUncut Legal Aid Roadblock in Cambridge

06-10-2013 17:46

They Shall Not Pass!
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.

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UK Uncut and DPAC block road in Legal Aid Cuts protest

06-10-2013 15:51

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.

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Want to fight the cuts? Passive protests are not enough!

03-10-2013 11:54

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New leaflet about how the anti-cuts movement needs to be more militant, more inclusive, and more democratic...

Full text and pdf here:  https://theviolentminority.wordpress.com/2013/10/03/want-to-fight-the-cuts-passive-protests-arent-enough/

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Photos from the Conservative Party demonstration

30-09-2013 03:19

Haldane Society of Legal Aid Lawyers at Manchester Crown Court
Photos from the demonstration

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Feeder March Against Legal Aid Cuts

30-09-2013 03:06

Legal aid lawyers and advice workers protesting against legal aid cuts held a rally a little ahead of the main demonstration at the Tory Conference in Manchester.

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Conference Demonstration Against NHS Privatisation

30-09-2013 02:20

It was big, it was loud, and it drew people from everywhere between Glasgow and Devon.

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Jobcentre anger and bans. What a mess.

26-09-2013 18:50

Broken Window at Sparkhill JCP

It’s hardly surprising to hear that the tension is bad at jobcentres. Lengthy and ridiculous benefit sanctions, pointless courses and workfare placements that go nowhere – it’s no wonder that people are getting really, really angry.

Birmingham Against Cuts had a story recently about a man who smashed windows at the Sparkhill jobcentre after being sanctioned.

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Royal Mail and ideology

16-09-2013 10:46

The privatisation of Royal Mail is an act of pure ideology. The globalist, laissez faire ideology has infected to a lesser or greater degree all of Britain’s major political parties. That ideology dovetails with the supranational mentality engendered by the EU , commitment to which is at the British political elite’s political core. It is doubtful if any senior British politician not firmly committed to either laissez faire globalism or the EU; most are committed to both. That is the simple truth.

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Swindon radical Bookfair - 21st sept

12-09-2013 18:03

An Invite to the 1st Swindon radical Bookfair, Central Community centre, 11-4, Sat 21st Sept

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

29-08-2013 15:13

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.

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#OpSleepOut Brighton protest - report and pics

24-08-2013 17:59

With actions planned in more than 60 UK locations, here's a short report and pics from the Brighton protest.Brighton #OpSleepOut protest – report and pics

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The mass sleep-out Birmingham, to raise awareness of mass homelessness room tax

06-08-2013 12:02

''Why should I sleep on the street if the bedroom tax doesn't affect me anyway?'' This isn't my fight, I'm not affected by this as I am a renter to a private landlord/employed/mortgaged etc..,'' you may ask.

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The Mass Sleep Out - National day of action against the bedroom tax!

06-08-2013 11:07

August 24th sees a national day of action against the bedroom tax, with over 2,000 people sleeping on the streets in more than 45 towns & cities across the UK to highlight the impending mass homelessness due to bedroom tax victims being unable to make ends meet.

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Justice in the UK: back to the 1930s?

31-07-2013 09:45

Legal Aid Rally London 30/7/13

Proposals to cut legal aid and judicial review in Britain will make it harder for people fighting for their rights to challenge the government's cuts agenda, and will remove one of the few lifelines to justice for asylum seekers, refugees and undocumented workers, says Kate Blagojevic.

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Jobcentre Plus week of action: 5-9 August

29-07-2013 21:00

police evict protestors who entered Leith Job Centre

The Civil Service Rank & File Network is calling for action aimed at Jobcentre Plus in the week of the 5 August.

The government is trying to draw a dividing line between claimants and those in work as it attacks all of us. Nowhere is this more clear than at the Jobcentre, where low waged civil servants are expected to impose sanctions and enforce unpaid work schemes for unemployed people subsisting on benefits.

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Awesome workfare picket as part of Boycott Workfare’s Week of Action

13-07-2013 18:54

Percy says NO! to workfare

I had so much fun this afternoon on an M&S workfare picket today.

Feminist Fightback, North London SolFed, Rhythms of Resistance, and Boycott Workfare descended on M&S off Mare Street, Hackney. As the hot sun scorched Hackney, the samba band rang out across the street interspersed with chants of ‘M&S pay your workers’. Passersby were loving the samba, with two children clapping along as they waited for a bus and then improvising their own instruments with two twigs. People stopped and joined the demo to chant ‘M&S pay your workers’ with us. There was loads of support and good vibes from people. We handed out so many ‘How to Avoid Workfare’ leaflets and leaflets explaining about M&S’ use of forced unpaid labour that we had to rush off and photocopy another batch.