UK Social Struggles Newswire Archive
2 shot dead (fasists?), 1 wounded (fasist?) outside Goilden dawn office Athens
01-11-2013 18:24
Media reports gunning with kalshnikov outside fasist Golden dawn offices in Athens. Motorbike riders shot at a group of 10, describes as fasists by some, and killd 2 hurt 1. This is stones throw from big police base in N. Iraklio, athensJoNina and Lorenzo Ervin on Dissident Island Radio
01-11-2013 14:55
Episode 128 on 18 October 2013, the night before the annual London Anarchist Bookfair, featured two seasoned activists from the USA.Residential occupation in protest of council housing sell-off and Section 144
29-10-2013 15:20
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.
Is the Zamboanga Uprising more than a Spark in the Darkness?
29-10-2013 12:12
There is no clear definition what it is in its own view, but from the perspective of a distance it appears to be Asia´s fourth subcontinent, or its first one, depending on the direction of counting. The chain of volcanic peninsulas and islands along the tectonic line between East Asia and Australia is increasingly plagued by the same neoliberalist woes as its three subcontinental brethren. In addition to that, or more precisely as the cause of that consequence, it is affected by a sort of oceanic backlash where a weakening of the destructive forces harboured by the Americas on one side is resulting in their increased destructivity on the other, and in a different form also vice versa. In the recent weeks, as rebels on Mindanao began an offensive that could only succeed through crystallising a large amount of external attention in its early stages, this geopolitical focus has appeared as the most remarkable blind spot on the surface of the commercial narrative. In the rule of lies which is reporting about every little incident in West Asia, the MNLF seems to be operating on another planet. Yet at light speed the occurrence of its activity coincided with a major disruption of the imperialist narrative demanding explanation, the so-called "government shutdown."UG#668 - Big Oil At Home And Abroad (How The 7 Sisters Took Us For A Ride)
28-10-2013 23:54
Grangemouth: Trade unions must learn lessons from Grangemouth setback
28-10-2013 22:51
'Trade unions must learn lessons from Grangemouth setback',Socialist Party Scotland, 25 October 2013
Ref: http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/articles/17639
The Grangemouth dispute makes it clear who really runs the country - Owen Jones
28-10-2013 14:39
extracts for the article highlighted: "..And so the workers and Scotland as a whole had a pistol pointed at their head. Capitulate on our terms, said Ineos, or the plant will go. It could have blown away around 10% of the Scottish economy, triggering economic ruin for entire communities." & "..The whole episode raises again an age-old question, not whispered enough, let alone asked loudly: who runs Britain?"Robb Johnson,Free Radicals + Socialist Magician 2 November London Earls Court
28-10-2013 08:38
http://westkengibbsgreen.wordpress.com/save-earls-court/Solidarity Meeting
27-10-2013 18:11
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.The Future Of Farming
24-10-2013 11:47
Current methods of land trading and farming are not sustainable.Shell PR event shut down in Oxford
23-10-2013 11:55
UG#667 - Community Successes (Restoring Our Connection To The Land)
23-10-2013 09:29
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...London property market explodes (again): London as world financial hub
22-10-2013 15:23
On the day after it is announced that London House prices have risen an incredible 10% in just 1 monthhttp://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-20/london-home-prices-rise-an-unsustainable-10-on-foreign-demand.html
just thought I'd share this with you - something I wrote in TLIO's name back in 2006/7 (updated):
Anti Fascist Action for Greece
22-10-2013 13:57
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.
Banner on Parkinson Building (Leeds) steps in solidarity with Brazil's protests
22-10-2013 08:56
Anniversary of Tower Hamlets Council being changed for the worse
22-10-2013 01:45
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.Life After Prison Evening at Hydra, Bristol - Sun 27th Oct
21-10-2013 17:56
Syria Peace Vigil this Tuesday as foreign ministers meet in London
20-10-2013 08:44
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:
LaDIYfest Sheffield 2013 - Saturday 30th November
19-10-2013 19:37