The resignation of the Canon of St Pauls, Dr Giles Fraser, has grabbed everyone’s attention. In his resignation statement regarding the Occupy LSX camp he explained that “I cannot support using violence to ask people to clear off the land.” No wonder this has caught the mainstream media by surprise - this must be the only time that City figure has resigned on principle.

Amongst all the violence this week, Occupy Oakland was the site of an assault on an Iraq veteren, Scott Olsen, by police on the 25th October. He was shot in the face with a gas canister that fractured his skull.

It all started back on the 17th of September when a few dozen protesters tried to pitch tents outside the New York Stock Exchange. When they were blocked by police, hundreds camped out opposite the NYSE to take their anti-capitalist message to the belly of the beast.

Wednesday's N30 strikes saw 2 million public sector workers striking and hundreds of thousands marching in Britain's streets all over the country, marking the biggest strike in a generation.

Today (Thursday 15th) marked the two month anniversary of the Occupy London movement, and not to be outdone by their American counterparts (see SchNEWS 797) the UK's own called for a day of action.

SchNEWS muses on the crazy year that was 2011 and prepares for impending doom in 2012

Occupy Wall Street takes back Zuccotti Park to see in 2012

A squatted courthouse, a group calling itself 'Occupy Justice'- all of this will sound eerily familiar to oldtime SchNEWS hacks. Occupy London is going strong in three locations

Irish activists move in to liberate government-owned empty buildings.

Troika's directive leaves no room for compromise with the latest austerity package yet Greek citizens can't take any more.

Occupy Nottingham fights on

7 people injured asPortugal brought to halt in general strike against austerity measures.

Hundred of thousands joined general strike to protest against the harshest austerity budget in Europe.

A new community-based bartering system emerged in Volos, Greece to counteract the devastating effects of an all time high recession.

Recoiling from the austerity measures activists and organisations worldwide are starting to get together to fight back against the illegitimacy of the national debts and bailouts. On 7th April the first Euro-Mediterranean Meeting of the newly formed International Network for Citizen Debt Audits took place in Brussels.

Two Israeli protesters set themselves on fire, incensed at lack of aid from the state.

6,400 migrants detained by police in the largest ethnic cleansing operation ever to hit Athens.

Protesters hold an anti-austerity Plebs and PIIGS Banquet outside Lord Mayor's Banquet as a precursor to day of action and strikes across Europe.

One group of Spanish workers has come together to stick a spanner in the works of austerity misery. Or more specifically, in the locks.

Anti-cuts protesters block Lord Freud's Highgate London home and stage "evict a millionaire" demo.

We started writing about three interesting but unrelated things happening in June. Here is an amalgamated version, which is worth a read.

The US and the EU are negotiating a new trade agreement – TTIP – which amounts to the biggest transfer of power to corporations seen in recent years.

An update on Brighton Hospitality workers and their work around employability rights, unionisation and campaign success.