Wednesday (9th) saw yet another demonstration against cuts to education and public services, this time organised by the National Campaign Against Fees & Cuts (NCAFC). So SchNEWS donned its best black hoody and attempted to infiltrate the ‘violent minority’. Much to our disappointment, by the end of the day, it was clear that the monopoly of violence was still very much in the hands of the state.
[ Read Full Story ]A local meeting of Worthing Planning Committee ended in shock and anger last Thursday (20th) as councillors controversially re-approved the building of 700 homes on land currently occupied by ancient forest, Titnore Woods.
[ Read Full Story ]The first national student and education workers demo since March last year is planned for Tuesday 9th November.
[ Read Full Story ]Wednesday anti-fracking protesters held a “frack mob” outside the Shale Gas Environmental Summit’, whilst two of the more intrepid anti-frackers scaled a fracking shale gas rig in Lancashire, shutting it down.
[ Read Full Story ]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.
[ Read Full Story ]On Saturday 29th October 2011 the English Defence League (EDL) paid their third visit to Birmingham. Previous excursions ended in running battles through the streets. The march was the EDL’s second big mobilisation this year, although not hyped as much as their September outing in Tower Hamlets...
[ Read Full Story ]Brighton’s irreplaceable rabble-rouser, Mark Rivers, was heartbreakingly killed by a fire in his flat in the early hours of Sunday, 6th November.
[ Read Full Story ]The radical electricians block ‘the Sparks’ continued their campaign against sweeping pay-cuts across the industry with a march on Wednesday 26th.
[ Read Full Story ]At 7am on Wednesday (19th) morning hundreds of riot police stormed the rear of Dale Farm. They met with stiff resistance on the barricades, resorting to Tasering at least one person as they ran away from them. Eventually breaching the outer wall of the site, police then had to fight their way through several more roving barricades (some aflame) as they made their way to the main gate under a hail of half-bricks.
[ Read Full Story ]In the last few days approximately 1,000 cities across the world have joined in the #Occupy movement sparked off by Occupy Wall Street. As the Occupy Wall Street protests neared their second month camped up next to the Mamon of world finance, movements all around the world have copied the OWS model – with “Occupy” protest camps springing up in city centres all over the world. United by common tactics and the common slogan, “We are the 99%”, people are taking the fight against capitalism to the belly of the beast.
[ Read Full Story ]The English Defence League (EDL) ‘Angels’ handed in their petition to Downing Street last Saturday
[ Read Full Story ]Somewhere between 3,000-5,000 people came to “Block the Bridge, Block the Bill” – the UK Uncut-organised demo to defend the NHS from axe-wielding Tory maniacs
[ Read Full Story ]Angry Sussex people are to protest outside Tory party offices against changes to planning rules that would give property developers free rein.
[ Read Full Story ]Over the weekend of 17-18 September local protesters from Lancashire joined forces with activists from across the country to attend Camp Frack- a two day camp focussed on networking, planning and skill-sharing at a site only a couple of miles away from the cabbage field where Cuadrilla Resources (the company currently leading the field in UK fracking) are conducting test drilling operations in preparation for an onslaught that could see 800 wells drilled in Lancashire alone.
[ Read Full Story ]Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets all over Honduras (and in cities around the world) on Monday 28th June, the first anniversary of the military coup. Not that they were commemorating the coup of course, but to celebrate the first birthday of the National Popular Resistance Front. The FNRP is a remarkable coalition of brave people from all the traditionally oppressed sectors of society: the Committee of Families of the Disappeared; a myriad of feminist organisations; indigenous groups; the Afro-descendant garífuna people; youth movements; the gay community; human rights activists and trades unions. The FNRP is an alliance of hundreds of grassroots organisations which, despite the risk to the lives of all involved, have refused to give in and accept the illegal takeover of their country by a ruthless and self-serving elite.
[ Read Full Story ]The Occupy movements around the world are reaching crunch time this week after it kicks off in New York and London was served with an eviction notice from The City of London Corporation.
[ Read Full Story ]More anti-austerity protests swept Greece on Thursday (17th) during the largest ever annual commemorative demonstration for the 38th anniversary of the student uprising of 1973. Ever since, it has been traditional to watch the fires burn bright around Athens, in places such as Exarcheia and Syntagma square. Since the events of 2008 this day has gone from merely rebellious to properly revolutionary.
[ Read Full Story ]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.
[ Read Full Story ]Another 48 hour strike will begin on Wednesday (19th) in Greece, following on from last week’s general strike. Meanwhile the public continue rioting as only the Greeks know how, in response to the continuing barrage of political botch-ups and suffocating cuts.
[ Read Full Story ]Violent clashes continue between Egyptian police and protesters in the latest round of resistance unfolding on the streets of Cairo. Tahrir Square, which since February has become a synonym for mass civil uprising, has again become the focal point for Egypt's ongoing revolution.
[ Read Full Story ]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.
[ Read Full Story ]Weekly protest over illegal occupation in West Bank leads to clashes between protesters and the Israeli army. Two journalists arrested.
[ Read Full Story ]The Occupy movement moves on to foreclosed homes
[ Read Full Story ]Russians rage over fraudulent elections
[ Read Full Story ]Greece roundup- Protests mark the 3rd anniversary of Alexis Grigoropoulos's death, yet another austerity package, 400 steel workers strike over unfair treatment.
[ Read Full Story ]During last November's Brighton student protests, aka "Day X", a 15-year-old protester was assaulted and nicked by police. More than a year later, on Thursday (1st) he's been acquitted of all charges at Brighton Magistrates Court.
[ Read Full Story ]A 28 year old Palestinian got shot in the face by a tear gas canister during a weekly Anarchists against the wall demonstration held in the village of Nabi Saleh. He died the next day.
[ Read Full Story ]Global Spring creates new market for crowd suppression gizmos.
[ Read Full Story ]Three Ukrainian activists return home after being caught, abducted and abused by KGB security forces after taking part in a protest in Minsk, Belarus.
[ Read Full Story ]And the winner is...
[ Read Full Story ]SchNEWS muses on the crazy year that was 2011 and prepares for impending doom in 2012
[ Read Full Story ]Occupy Wall Street takes back Zuccotti Park to see in 2012
[ Read Full Story ]Russian state clampdown on dissident activists
[ Read Full Story ]French citizens hit the streets after fatal police brutality and the attempt to conceal it.
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Around the country, even in supposedly right-on Brighton, fundamentalist Christians have been harassing women outside abortion clinics.
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UPDATE Report from Anti-fascists in Hyde 25/02/12
After the disturbances in Rochdale, Asian youth turned out to confront the EDL in Hyde. SchNEWS spoke to one anti-fascist who also made the trip.
[ Read Full Story ]Occupy Nottingham fights on
[ Read Full Story ]Farcical day out for the EDL in Brighton's Churchill Square
[ Read Full Story ]The Occupy Movement has joined forced with protesters demanding justice for murdered black teen Trayvon Martin- just part the ongoing struggle for justice for the 99%
[ Read Full Story ]7 people injured asPortugal brought to halt in general strike against austerity measures.
[ Read Full Story ]Simulated Jubilee disruption threat leads to council corruption exposé of Tory military-industrial-police Cox-up
[ Read Full Story ]Squatters take to the streets to show their opposition to the Legal Aid bill and the criminalisation of the homeless.
[ Read Full Story ]Hundred of thousands joined general strike to protest against the harshest austerity budget in Europe.
[ Read Full Story ]Anti militarists in Bristol successfully disrupt the Unmanned Aircraft Vehicle Conference in Bristol
[ Read Full Story ]As SchNEWS dives into the path of the March for England
[ Read Full Story ]Worthing based anti-abortionists get a taste of their own medicine.
[ Read Full Story ]Italian museum burns art works in protest over budget cuts as art imitates life
[ Read Full Story ]A new strategy inspired by South American peasant movements has emerged in San Francisco. 'Occupy The Farm' intends to break the corporations' control over the food industry and replace it by community-managed food production.
[ Read Full Story ]While fighting closure, the Portuguese Es.Col.A movement has been inspiring the whole country to engage on self-management of abandoned spaces...
[ Read Full Story ]The EDLs much-vaunted 'homecoming' to Luton last week-end was, in the end, a damp squib
[ Read Full Story ]Over 20,000 violent individuals take part in a surprisingly peaceful demonstration.
[ Read Full Story ]One man at least wasn't waiting for the public protest against genetically modified wheat in Rothamsted. According to mainstream news sources Hector Christie scaled the fence on Sunday morning and caused 'significant random damage'.
[ Read Full Story ]Sea Shepherd founder Paul Watson gets released on bail from German prison for a decade old Costa Rican misdemeanors.
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As NATO's top-brass met in Chicago to debate a way out of the mess they created in Afghanistan, the freedoms they claimed to stand uphold there were being eroded on their doorstep.
[ Read Full Story ]New laws brought in to crush Quebec's Maple Spring.
[ Read Full Story ]New worldwide demos against ACTA being organised for 9 June.
[ Read Full Story ]Rollercoaster weekend in the City by the Sea, with tea, cake and fascism.
[ Read Full Story ]Brighton's Autonomous Homeless Shelter plans a mass sleep out outside Brighton Town Hall on Wednesday (6th).
[ Read Full Story ]On 24 May, the Hatikva neighborhood in Tel-Aviv was set alight by rascist rioting and violence towards the Sudanese refugee population. The hateful violence was sparked up by racist political speeches delivered by government officials and rightist-settlers.
[ Read Full Story ]New Police tactics but the good city of Brighton and Hove luckily survives to live another day as Smash EDO score a pre-emptive strike for peace with a "No War on Iran" demo
[ Read Full Story ]Protester John Catt loses domestic extremism database battle in draconian decision
[ Read Full Story ]Update on Sunday 22nds anti-fascist action in Brighton.
[ Read Full Story ]Across the globe punks take a stand over brutalization of their Indonesian comrades
[ Read Full Story ]Anti-nuclear protests in Japan as plants fired up again
[ Read Full Story ]Two Israeli protesters set themselves on fire, incensed at lack of aid from the state.
[ Read Full Story ]“Whose Games? Whose City?" peaceful demonstration calling on the Olympic bogus scheduled for this Saturday in Mile End Park in East London at midday
[ Read Full Story ]London's Olympic ceremony didn't stand a chance of competing against Beijing in scale or spectacle, but Team GB is sure as hell giving the Chinese a run for their money when it comes to state repression.
[ Read Full Story ]North London library, closed by cuts, opened by squatters.
[ Read Full Story ]Locals organise a camp against the renewed threat of a Hastings-Bexhill link road.
[ Read Full Story ]Activists and friends pull out all the stops to prevent UKBA sending family to persecution in Egypt.
[ Read Full Story ]Anonymous hit the streets on bonfire night.
[ Read Full Story ]Refugees set up a protest camp in front of the historic Brandenburg gate in Berlin and go on hunger strike over abysmal treatment in the hands of the state.
[ Read Full Story ]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.
[ Read Full Story ]With the dark clouds of unconventional gas extraction looming over the British Isles, the anti-fracking resistance is responding by cranking it up a gear. Community groups across the country are organising for a day of action on Saturday 1st December...
[ Read Full Story ]German anti-fascists take Berlin on 20th anniversary of comrade Silvio Meier's murder.
[ Read Full Story ]Anti-road protestors in Bexhill were ambushed by an early start to the tree-felling on the controversial Bexhill-Hastings link road this week, but they rallied and using direct action have put a spanner in the works.
[ Read Full Story ]Derail the first and the worst of the new road schemes for the UK.
[ Read Full Story ]Animal rights campaigner is attacked outside KFC outlet during a protest
[ Read Full Story ]The year is 2013 A.D Bexhill is entirely occupied by the Romans. Well, not entirely...One small village of indomitable tree-sitters still holds out against the invaders.
[ Read Full Story ]One group of Spanish workers has come together to stick a spanner in the works of austerity misery. Or more specifically, in the locks.
[ Read Full Story ]Two camps down at Bexhill - but the best is yet to come!!
[ Read Full Story ]Animal rights campaigners from Essex Animal Defenders group are holding anti-fur demonstrations outside local shops.
[ Read Full Story ]Despite reports from pro-Israel newspapers to the contrary, race war is not about to break out in front of Brighton's crappiest fizzy drinks seller.
[ Read Full Story ]On International Taiji Action Day for Dolphins 2013 a demonstration was held outside the Japanese Embassy in Piccadilly, London
[ Read Full Story ]Energy giant EDF seeks to bankrupt chimney climbers
[ Read Full Story ]Protesters call for the closure of Harlan Laboratories - leading breeders of research animals - and for a government inquiry into animal testing.
[ Read Full Story ]If the “world leaders” heading to Enniskillen in June were hoping for an easy protest-free ride they were sadly mistaken
[ Read Full Story ]National Front demonstration has a poor turn out in Swansea, followed by a Blood & Honour gig in the valleys.
[ Read Full Story ]Anti-cuts protesters block Lord Freud's Highgate London home and stage "evict a millionaire" demo.
[ Read Full Story ]Russian anti-fascist unfairly imprisoned under Putin's new house rules.
[ Read Full Story ]Hundreds of anti-capitalistas confront an overwhelming police presence in London as part of a pre-emptive strike against the G8 summit
[ Read Full Story ]The camp's on the increase and the direct action hasn't stopped.
[ Read Full Story ]Sussex Police's Operation Mansell is going almost as badly for them as the Tories' failing efforts to sell shale gas to the UK.
[ Read Full Story ]Marches, blockades, arrested MPs and one helluva lot of cops...The campaign against the Balcombe fracketeers stepped up this weekend with the arrival of Reclaim the Power.
[ Read Full Story ]Are the Met really going to march the EDL into the heart of Tower Hamlets? That's what the English Defence League's leader Tommy Robinson is proclaiming on Facebook and Twitter right now.
[ Read Full Story ]Update from Balcombe as the end of the drilling approaches.
[ Read Full Story ]Housing Action in Southwark and Lambeth help occupy Britain's most expensive council house.
[ Read Full Story ]Anonymous Manchester plan an X-mas protest outside their Church of Scientology...
[ Read Full Story ]Riot police clashed with 8,000 protesters in Hamburg over the eviction of a social centre in Hamburg on Saturday(21st). Barricades were built and petrol bombs hurled as locals took a stand against gentrification.
[ Read Full Story ]Global solidarity for African refugees in Israel, as tens of thousands march in Tel Aviv in the face of state repression, racism and detention.
[ Read Full Story ]In the case of Ukraine our domestic media is blatantly cheerleading for the rioters, focussing particularly on the admittedly striking presence of Dr Ironfist himself, one time world heavyweight boxing champion Vitali Klitschko. But just who is rioting in Kiev and what do they want?
[ Read Full Story ]Is this the last March for England? “They have become the fools in a carnival of anti-fascism” Stop MfE protestor
[ Read Full Story ]After a two year campaign the Ecostream shop in Brighton throw in the towel marking the end of one of the strangest campaigns ever seen in Brighton.
[ Read Full Story ]“Being raided, arrested, dragged through the legal system and having my property taken from me (including my photo album because it had a "hunt sabs" sticker on it and my notebook for my uni degree in criminology) just for campaigning seems over the top and has been pretty stressful. But it's not going to stop me from fighting for what I believe in and against what I disagree with. This isn't for ego, nor for fame, it's for the exploited and the vulnerable.” SOCPA 7 defendant - Emma
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