It's now official, the Irish state is in talks with the EU and the IMF about a so called 'rescue plan' to bail out the Irish capitalist class from the disaster created by the international crash of the capitalist economic system. A crisis that was magnified in Ireland by the corruption of local crony capitalism on the one hand and the dependency of the economy on 'globalization' on the other. Trapped between such a cast of crooks and idiots it is perhaps not surprising that many in Ireland hope things will be improved when the running of our lives will be handed over to those who many hope might have a clue.

Protesters are never a homogenous group, but those who protested under the anti-cuts banner last week were united in the view that the marketisation of higher education should be opposed. Typically, however, property destruction magically transformed a sizeable subset into "anarchists", and gave a green light to the general dismissal of their concerns.

A few hours ago, a group of the young members of the "sosialist party" try to get inside the university in Thessalloniki but anarchists did not let them. It was a big fight and guess who won?

Eleven people arrested in Asheville, NC on May 1 still face outrageous felony conspiracy and rioting charges simply for being in a neighborhood in which some windows were broken. Although support for the defendants has been growing steadily, the District Attorney is stubbornly clinging to this opportunity to defame and demonize anarchists. It is increasingly clear that the outcome of the case hinges on the attention and support the 11 receive.

In late September the FBI carried out a series of raids of homes and anti-war offices of public activists in Minneapolis and Chicago. Following the raids the Obama Justice Department subpoenaed 14 activists to a grand jury in Chicago and also subpoenaed the files of several anti-war and community organizations.

Among some of the images of good citizenship generated by the mainstream media following the demonstrations against the meeting of G8 and G20 leaders in Toronto from June 25 to 27, 2010, two particular cases come to mind.[1] The first, broadcast repeatedly on the morning of June 27 by the local Toronto television news station CP24, was an interview with a private security expert who had spotted two demonstrators emerge from an underground sewer. The middle-aged man described them as though they were unwanted vermin that he took pleasure in rooting out.[2] Although there was not much to this story, it aired repeatedly like a mantra for the weekend.

More than a dozen people have been arrested in clashes with police outside a meeting of University of California regents, who are set to vote on another tuition increase.

Over 50,000 people marched today in Athens, Greece as part of protests that marked the anniversary of a 1973 anti-dictatorship uprising. The protests included clashes between people and the police, who used violence against the protesters.

Occupied London: More than 50,000 march today in Athens; more than thirty detentions so far; pictures from the demo

Greek Riots; Protesters Clash With Police At 1973 Uprising Anniversary March

Greece: Police, protesters clash at annual march

Thousands hold protest in Greece

This letter, addressed to HUD secretary Shaun Donovan, is to demand that the Department of Housing and Urban Development not award a Choice Neighborhoods Implementation grant to the Housing Authority of New Orleans (HANO) and City of New Orleans to demolish and privatize the Iberville Public Housing development.

At Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado an urgent letter was released altering the Fort Lewis and Durango community about a meeting that took place between FLC president Dene Thomas, Provost Steven Roderick and two students. Concern was raised because of the methods used by the president and the Provost of the college with regards to student input. Not only did the students concerns fall on deaf ears, but we feel there was an attempt to silence us. Most surprising of which is an analogy President Thomas made to FLC and Ken State. Please read the narrative below explaining the meeting in further detail.

What to expect at the 2011 Radical History Conference in Windsor Ontario during February 4th, 5th and 6th? Join fellow workers in exploring past stories of revolt, stories of genocide, stories of community solidarity, stories of liberation and stories from a decaying world of corporate hegemony. Heck, we got more incendiary stories than an Ottawa RBC branch. They don't teach this stuff in school boys and girls!

Over a hundred people were arrested after a demonstration confronting the European Union summit, held in Thessaloniki in Greece back in 2003. Seven people were imprisoned and held on remand, including UK protester Simon Chapman. The prisoners began a hunger strike that lasted more than 50 days.

What follows is a compilation of accounts of comrades who were at tonight’s demonstration in central Athens, close to the injured activist and whose reports are verified and trustworthy. Please spread. We will post more information here, as it comes. The events unfolded toward the end of tonight’s demonstration against the presence of representatives of the IMF in central Athens. As we were marching at the last block of the demonstration on Patision Avenue, having left Omonoia square and heading back toward the Polytechnic, a number of “Delta” motorcycle police appeared at the back of the demonstration.

A march and rally that was planned through downtown Phoenix by members of the National Socialist Movement (NSM), a neo-Nazi hate group, was met with fierce resistance on Saturday. Starting at noon, more than 150 Anarchists, Anti-authoritarians, Queer, Youth, Immigrants, Wobblies and Indigenous peoples started gathering at the Sandra Day O'connor courthouse to confront the NSM.

We are asking for your support of two Olympia activists, Matt (Matthew Duran) and Maggi (Margaret Belknap), who have been charged with perjury in connection with their participation in an anti-police demonstration in Olympia, WA on April 8th. The demonstration occurred in reaction to recent police murders in Olympia, Portland, Tacoma, and the Bay Area and the unaccountability that surrounds them.

The Russian Embassy in Montreal, QC had its windows smashed and paint thrown against its facade. This action took place during the days of solidarity called for between November 12th-15th in solidarity with those facing repression of the aftermath of the militant defense of the Khimki old growth forest in Russia.

Last Thanksgiving, Long Island Food Not Bombs organized the largest Food Share in the 30-year history of the Food Not Bombs movement. There were thousands of people, tens-of-thousands of pounds of food and a true sense that solidarity and community direct action can achieve anything. This year we’re organizing something even bigger! Hell, way bigger!