Posts Tagged ‘UK’
Spycops inquiry: ‘If it’s in secret, it’s dead in the water’ – The legal farce continues (UK)
Monday, March 21st, 2016
Stop the Cover-Up of Secret Police Abuses
Demo – Tuesday 22 March
9 – 10am Royal Courts of Justice
The Strand
London
Spycops inquiry: ‘If it’s in secret, it’s dead in the water’
Following the exposure of police spy Mark Kennedy in 2010, activists and journalists slowly began to lift the lid on political policing in Britain. Their investigations found that the state had used undercover officers to infiltrate hundreds of political groups to surveil their activity and attempt to undermine dissent.
We now know that officers commonly used intimate relationships with targets as a tactic, stole the identities of dead children, spied upon families fighting for justice following the death of loved ones in police custody, and lied in court to secure convictions against activists. Disturbingly, internal investigations by state agencies over the same period revealed little.
In 2012, Mark Ellison QC conducted an independent review into police corruption during the Stephen Lawrence murder investigation. The findings were damning. Following increased public pressure, the Home Secretary announced an independent public inquiry into undercover police operations. Lord Justice Pitchford was appointed to lead the Inquiry. (more…)
Tags: Fuck the Law, Mark Kennedy (Undercover Cop), Repression, UK
Posted in Social Control
1st May – Fuck Parade, Commercial Street, 6pm, London (UK)
Friday, March 11th, 2016
Fuck you all, it’s the Fuck Parade
Meet Sunday 1st May 2016, 6pm @ One Commercial Street, Aldgate, London E1 7PT. Bring what you expect to find.
http://fuckparade.wordpress.com
Tags: 1st May, Demo, Fuck McDonalds, Fuck the Church, Fuck the Law, Fuck the Mainstream Media, Fuck the Police, Fuck the Queen, Fuck Work, Fuck You Tesco, London, UK
Posted in Direct Action
‘Invasion of the Transhumanists’ from Acorn #22 (UK)
Wednesday, March 9th, 2016
From Winter Oak:
If there is one present-day current of thought that stands out as even more repugnant than all the other repugnance of industrial capitalism, it is transhumanism.
For those who have not come across it before, this is a warped ideology that wants to physically merge humans and industrial technology, with the “dream” of abolishing mortality and creating a super-race of cyborgs or Daleks.
Whether or not this is ever likely to come true is pretty much beyond the point – the transhumanists are dangerous simply in that they are promoting a way of thinking, a way of envisaging the future, that is completely bound up with the extension of industrial capitalism and, of course, completely against any idea of caring about the living planet.
The transhumanists form part of an ultramodern neoliberal cult – also worryingly infecting supposedly “radical” circles – which regards the very idea of “nature” as out of date and builds its cold worldview on a fetish for all that is false, artificial, inhuman. (more…)
Tags: Acorn, Anti-technology, Didier Coeurnelle, France, Lyons, Technological Singularity, Transhumanism, UK
Posted in Eco Struggle
‘Heathrow 13′ eco-activists get suspended sentence for airport blockade (UK)
Thursday, February 25th, 2016
February 24 2016: The eco-activists known as the ‘Heathrow 13′ were today sentenced to six weeks suspended for 12 months for aggravated trespass at Heathrow Airport in July 2015. The eco-activists had made a direct action blockade of the runway to highlight the destructive effect of man-made climate-change, particularly against the ongoing effect of emissions at Heathrow Airport, which led them to occupy the airport’s north runway on 13 July 2015 causing up to 25 flights to be cancelled.
Tags: Blockade, Climate Chaos, Heathrow Airport, Repression, Trial, UK
Posted in Eco Struggle
“Smarter Prison? – Call for War on the Technology Multinationals” publication from Return Fire (UK)
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2016
Submitted to Return Fire in the last month of 2015, as part of the challenge to create diverse Black December activities. Return Fire take full responsibility for delaying publication while we awaited corrections, which we now amended into the text and formatted for release. Big love from our trench to the comrades standing proud in the Turin courts around this very time. Shouts to the fighters who carry on beyond the Black December timeframe and harry the dominators in all corners of our lives. Freedom. R.F.
– solidarity with Silvia, Costa & Billy
Note from Return Fire: We transcribed the following essay, submitted by ‘Radical Interference’, which unfortunately cannot fit into our upcoming Volume 3 (Winter 2015-2016). We are happy to see that the invitation from the Greek dungeons for a Black December campaign (to re-intensify our insurrectionary fervour while not forgetting to “exchange experiences and rationales around various topics of struggle”) was taken up in this form, so as to broaden and develop the offensive against modern domination. Solidarity and strength to Silvia, ‘Costa‘, ‘Billy‘, Marco, Adrián, Nicola and Alfredo, and to the rest of the comrades in our struggle. In the spirit of ‘Avalon’; always present in our memories and active hands. Let’s extend the energy of Black December beyond the New Year, through the trial that starts in January and the proposed week of mobilisation, and onwards on the path of total liberation. Winter Solstice, 2015
INTRODUCTION AND DEDICATION IN ANTICIPATION OF THE TRIAL ON 13th JANUARY 2016
At this time, as the wheels of this monstrous society continue to grind on, and the scattered insurgents make to throw what they can beneath the tracks to slow it down in whatever way, we are left with some questions. These are questions that, in our opinion, deserve more thought and provocation than they usually assume in the circles of anarchists, rebels and land-defenders. Namely; it is clear that mobilisations (independent of any timeframe), such as those for our imprisoned or fallen, are a practical necessity in order to constitute diverse forces that are ready to face and understand the consequences of any struggle that materially contests the ruling order; in other words, so that repression lessens in its power to stop us in our own tracks. (more…)
Tags: Analysis, Black December, Costantino Ragusa, Luca Bernasconi, Radical Interference, Return Fire, Silvia Guerini, UK
Posted in Library
‘Why allow it to continue?’ & other writings by Kevan Thakrar, CSC prisoner (UK)
Saturday, January 30th, 2016
Since my arrival at Wakefields Close Supervision Centre (CSC), I have experienced something unlike any other prison in the pure extent of the blatant racism which is encouraged by prison officers. Benefits and bonuses are given to racist prisoners, whilst others are kept in total isolation from each other and there is little action which can be taken against the culprits.
For several weeks now the racist Islamaphobic prisoner Nathan Livesy from Manchester has been the main perpetrator of these attacks. Currently undergoing an assessment for his suitability for selection onto the CSC system following slashing another prisoners face at HMP Manchester, and expulsion from Ashworth High security hospital due to his predatory behaviour, Livesy is looking for any way possible to please his captors. He has taken to squirting urine and spitting out of the window onto the ethnic minorities which the officers deliberately place in the exercise cage directly adjacent to his cell, as well as continuously abusing them whilst the officers stand by laughing. Having made open threats to “kill the first Muslim” he sees, Livesy believes he will be returned to normal location in order to carry out his plan.
(more…)
Tags: Close Supervision Centre CSC, HMP Wakefield, HMP Woodhill, Kevan Thakrar, Letter, Racism, UK
Posted in Prison Struggle
Heathrow 13 found guilty of aggravated trespass and unauthorized access to airport (UK)
Friday, January 29th, 2016
25 January 2016
The Heathrow 13 were today found guilty at Willesden Magistrates’ Court of aggravated trespass and being in an unauthorised area of Heathrow Airport in summer 2015. Sentencing has been adjourned until Wednesday, 24th February and the defendants bailed until then.
The defendants were taking direct action against the ongoing effect of emissions at Heathrow Airport and occupied the airport’s north runway on 13 July 2015 causing up to 25 flights to be cancelled.
Tags: Airport, Blockade, Climate Chaos, Heathrow Airport, Trial, UK
Posted in Eco Struggle
Squatters of London Action Paper – SLAP! 1st Edition (UK)
Friday, January 29th, 2016
PDF: Squatters of London Action Paper (SLAP!) 1st Edition
Please spread & repost!
Tags: London, PDF, Squatters of London Action Paper - SLAP!, Squatting, UK, Zine
Posted in Library
Judgment entered against police in undercover relationships case (UK)
Friday, January 29th, 2016
From Police Spies Out of Lives:
On Friday 15th January 2016, the Metropolitan Police withdrew their defence in a case brought against them over undercover police relationships. In a significant development at the High Court, the police asked for judgment to be entered against them in respect of the claims for deceit, assault/battery, misfeasance in public office and negligence.
The claim had been brought by Kate Wilson, who was deceived into a 2-year relationship with undercover officer Mark Kennedy. The successful claim states that supervising officers had been negligent and had acted improperly in causing or allowing the relationship to happen.
The implication of this judgment is that the actions of Mark Kennedy “were undertaken with the express or tacit knowledge of other police officers employed by [the Metropolitan Police]”. Supervising and managing officers “knew that [Mark Kennedy] was abusing the power that he was given as an undercover police officer”, and their failure to act on this knowledge was “unlawful and in abuse of their own duties as supervisors and managers of [Mark Kennedy’s] undercover activities.” (more…)
Tags: UK, Undercover Police
Posted in Social Control
Birmingham: Smash the Nazi-Fascist Demo – Fight Pegida – 6 Feb (UK)
Sunday, January 24th, 2016
Tags: Antifa, Birmingham, Demo, Pegida UK, Racism, UK
Posted in Anti-Fascist
