COP21: the time of the counter-summit is over
With critical support, we went to the COP21 counter summit and found State repression, coercive pacifists and a lack of revolt.
State of Repression
The build-up to the COP21 set the tone for the entirety of the counter-summit. Although the… Continue reading
December 14th: Call for Solidarity from Calais
From Calais Migrant Solidarity
‘They tried to bury us. They didn’t know we were seeds’
Gas attack by police on the jungle
In recent months, from Ventimiglia to Calais, state violence has increased against those who travel without papers.… Continue reading
GBC Celebrates Fifth Birthday Party
Green and Black Cross are having their 5th birthday party this Friday at DIY Space for London. Come down to support their brilliant work and celebrate five years of premier legal support.
Green and Black Cross Legal is five… Continue reading
‘North of the Watford Gap’: Resistance beyond Central London
The Rebecca Riots of 1843.
You are holding a black-and-white photograph. It shows a woman holding a union placard. It shows a picket line, scab vans, Labour politicos, a man dirty and tired from his work. You are holding the… Continue reading
Students, Class and Wildcat Strikes: Why free education must have a basis in working-class struggle
Reaching its second day on Friday, the wildcat strike and picket at the School of Oriental and African Studies was successful in putting further pressure on management to lift the suspension of union representative Sandy Nicoll.
The suspension comes in… Continue reading
#FUCKPARADE – What the fuck is to be done?
It’s official. The #fuckparade has gone viral. Two previous outings generated small write ups in local papers and on blogs, most notably on #fuckparade 2 where a skirmish with a group of fascists provided the main talking point. #fuckparade 3,… Continue reading
Festung Europa: Discrimination Against Roma Rife In Eastern Europe
Roma demonstrate in Czech Republic. Photo taken by author
The tragedy and desperation of this summer’s Mediterranean human trafficking has slowly drawn blood even from the stone of David Cameron’s largely retiring isolationism, and united an unsteady Europe in sharing the… Continue reading
Finding Hope on an A to B March
I haven’t been on many A to B marches over the last few years due to doubts about state sanctioned protest but I managed to get down to the anti-austerity demo on June 20th in London, and was glad I… Continue reading
Press release from Harmondsworth detainees protest 14/07/2014
At 9pm tonight (Monday 14th July 2014) 60 detainees at Harmondsworth mens immigration detention centre began an overnight demonstration, occupying the courtyard. They are demanding that all those on the now unlawful Detained Fast Track (DFT) system are taken off… Continue reading
Stop the War won’t stop this war, but direct action might
The applause. The same old placards and distinguished speakers. The masses asking politely. Stop the War rallies might only be boring if their shortfalls didn’t have such serious implications.
Despite almost two million people marching against the war in Iraq,… Continue reading →