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Roundup of a Crazy Weekend

Anarchist Federation - London Group:

Very good write-up of this weekends events.

Originally posted on Brighton Anti-fascists:

This weekend has been very busy for antifascists around the country, with many demonstrations and some interesting (and worrying!) developments.

First off, SS wannabes National Action staged a “White Man March” in Newcastle. North East Antifascists, alongside London Antifascists and many other autonomous groups, confronted them and made sure they had a real shit time. Chants such as “Hitler was right!”, plus burning an LGBT and Israeli flag, got 9 of them (ie half of their demo) nicked for racial hatred. It ended with around 20 idiots standing protected by dozens of police, sieg heiling to an empty street. Well done guys, that was a major victory for the white race /sarcasm.

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Announcing New Squatted Social Centre

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Autonomous Nation of Anarchist Libertarians – A.N.AL. Joint Statement.

It is well known that behind the face of a politician lies the logo of a corporation. For this reason that the Autonomous Nation of
Anarchist Libertarians (A.N.A.L.) and Squatter and Homeless Autonomy (S.H.A.) have occupied 123 Pall Mall, which was formerly the
Institute of Directors. The Institute, now a few buildings down the road, functions as a lobby group for business leaders and CEO’s who wish to “exercise influence in all areas of social and economic policy”. Zero-hour contracts, lower taxes in such a way that inevitably benefits the wealthy, and the erasure of workers’ rights are at the centre of the Institutes monetarist ideology. Their website states it plainly.
The building has been renamed the Institute of Dissidents. Dissidents are squatters, rioters, grass-roots journalists, community activists. In our age of mass exploitation and state violence, dissidents are those who resist the hierarchy summarised so crudely by this building’s previous owners.
A.N.A.L and S.H.A have opened the building as a radical space used to network anti-capitalist groups and individuals. In particular, we will host Know Your Rights, internet security and squatting workshops, screen the green anarchist documentary EndCiv, and use the cooking facilities in the building for the benefit of local street homeless people.
In their work ‘An Introduction to Civil War’, the radical collective Tiqqun revokes the lie of government. The State does not mean order, but the continuation of civil war: the rich are waging war against the poor, fascists against immigrant and black communities, PCSOs and their byelaws against squatters and other homeless people.
The opening up of squats and other autonomous zones, such as this at 123 Pall Mall, blows a strike in favour of the oppressed. A.N.A.L. and S.H.A welcome you to the Institute of Dissidents.

The Feminist Library Celebrates its 40th Anniversary and Faces a Fresh Challenge

The Feminist Library is Britain’s pre-eminent collection of Women’s Liberation Movement and feminist literature with an incomparable collection of over 7,000 books, 1,500 periodical titles from around the world, archives of feminist individuals and organisations, pamphlets and ephemera, including many original posters, 600 unpublished papers and a small but important collection of archives from the women’s liberation movement.
The collection includes both fiction and non-fiction, and also a large collection of feminist poetry, and many of the items are unique to the library.

Based in London and run by a collective of volunteers, the Feminist Library has been supporting feminist research, activists and community projects since 1975 and this year is the library’s 40th anniversary.
Formerly known as the Women’s Research and Resources Centre, the library was set up by feminist activists and academics to record and document the burgeoning women’s liberation movement, safeguard its history and further the aims of the movement.

The Feminist Library’s former homes include above Sisterwrite Bookshop in Upper Street, next to Spare Rib in Clerkenwell Close, and above A Woman’s Place on the Embankment, before being moved as the Feminist Library to its present home in Southwark after the Greater London Council was abolished in 1986.

The Feminist Library, like many feminist enterprises, is completely unfunded and has faced more than its fair share of crises and uncertainties. It has been unable to afford paid workers for many years and several times in its 40-year history it has looked like the library might close and its collections be dispersed.

However, despite it all, the Feminist Library has remained open thanks to the hard work and dedication of the many women involved in running the library, and is going from strength to strength.

The recent upsurge of interest in feminism and feminist activism has seen a huge increase in the number of people and groups visiting and using the library, its collections and facilities, and the library is still providing crucial space for people to learn, educate and organise around feminist issues.

However, there are once again serious concerns about the future of the library. Our current location is damp and cramped and about to become seriously unaffordable as Southwark Council moves to collect market-rate rent. We are facing unsustainable increases in our rent and charges and as such need to find a new, more secure home to house this unique resource and community space.

The Feminist Library collective is launching a campaign to find a new, permanent and secure home. We are using this International Women’s Day as an opportunity to highlight the important work that the library does and request financial support for the library and help to find a new home.

To find out how you can help, please visit here where there are details about how to make a one-off or regular donation, a sample trade union motion to put to your union branch and details of other ways to support the Feminist Library.

The Feminist Library is open Tuesday 6-9 pm, Wednesday 5-9pm, Thursday 6-9pm and Saturday 12-5pm for the Feminist Library Bookshop. It is located at 5 Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1 7XW. For more information on the library, its work and wide range of events please visit its website, follow us on Twitter or on Facebook.

Originally from the Morning Star

Prisoner Support – Emma Sheppard

Today, Emma Sheppard was sentenced to two years imprisonment. She is the police’s first conviction under Operation Rhone, investigating a spate of attacks carried out by anarchists in Bristol. For more information on what the police have been upto see here.

Emma Sheppard had put together a homemade ‘stinger’ device which was placed outside a police station puncturing the tyres of police vehicles driving over it, around the New Year period. The sentencing appears to have opted for anything other than what it was – criminal damage.

We understand from she is in good spirits, but all the same it is important that people write to her, to keep her spirits up. She is a committed environmental activist of some years.

**Address Update 30/03/2015**

Emma Sheppard

A7372DJ
HMP Send
Ripley Road
Woking
Surrey
GU23 7LJ

For a guide on writing to prisoners see here
See Bristol ABC

Time to Act on Climate Change

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No to Austerity, Yes to a Million Climate Jobs

The People’s Assembly alongside trade unions and the Campaign Against Climate Change are organising an anti-austerity/pro-climate jobs bloc on the Time to Act Climate Change demo on 7 March.

Come with your placards and banners. Look out for the People’s Assembly ‘No More Austerity’ banner at the assembly point.

Why are we supporting the demo?

We face a climate crisis and a crisis of pay and employment for millions of working people. The market chooses profit and economic growth at the cost of public services and the health of the planet that sustains us.

Working people are expected to pay for an economic crisis they didn’t cause, and up to a million families in Britain have to choose between heating their homes in winter or having regular meals.

Austerity measures will continue to undermine our national response to climate change, notably our frontline flood defences and services.

Fresh solutions are available w ith the creation of one million new climate jobs. This crisis gives us the opportunity to galvanise, and show that as a movement we are stronger, together.

Let’s show we care about the world we will leave for our children and grandchildren. Together let’s bring a message of urgency which will no longer be ignored.

Saturday, March 7 at 12:30pm
Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London WC2A

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Anarchist Fitzrovia Fundraiser Walk – Sunday 08 March

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Sunday 08 March, at 1pm

After the the much anticipated success of the East London Walk – visit all the hot spots of anarchist Fitzrovia.

See where Frank Kitz, a leading light in the Socialist League, met with others and downed a pint or two in the process. Visit the sites of Louise Michel’s Free School, the German anarchist Autonomie Club, Lilyan Evelyn’s anarchist Ferrer School, the haunts of the celebrated Italian anarchist Errico Malatesta, the soup kitchen set up by refugees from the Paris Commune.

Goggle at the building that housed the (in)famous Malatesta Club of the 1950s. See where anarchist sympathiser and artist Augustus John drank. Stand outside The grocer shop of Albert Richard, hero of the Paris Commune, who sold only red beans and rejected reactionary white beans.

Linger at the newsagents run by Armand Lapie, scene of doctrinal disputes. Pause at the spot where the colourful anarchist Xo d’Axa played his barrel organ. All this and much more.

Meet at ticket barrier at Great Portland Street at 1pm. £4 waged, £2 unwaged. All proceeds to the new London paper of the Anarchist Federation, Rebel City.

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See Nick Heath’s “A small anarchist republic” for reference.

Evict the Bailiffs – Focus E15 Mothers Action

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#EvictTheBailiffs at the British Credit Awards! Weds. Feb. 11, 18:00 SHARP!

Focus E15 invite you to the Brewery (52 Chiswell Street, EC1Y 4SD) for 6pm sharp on Weds. Feb. 11, to welcome those arriving at the 2015 British Credit Awards’ £4,000-per-table black-tie affair, in which bailiffs and debt collectors will be receiving awards for making families homeless.

Since companies like ‘The Sherriff’s Office’ receive nominations by throwing people and their belongings out onto the cold streets of London, we intend to turn the front entrance of the Brewery into a mock eviction site for attendees to experience before an evening of champagne, three-course dinners, and the kudos of their peers.

We encourage anyone concerned with social cleansing and the criminalisation of poverty to bring rubbish bags, boxes, and broken pieces of furniture to scatter across the front entrance of the Brewery as guests arrive to receive awards like ‘Enforcement Team of the Year,’ ‘Third Party Debt Collection Team of the Year’ and ‘Consumer Collections Team of the Year.’

We encourage a peaceful but outraged action, and particularly hope those with first-hand experience of bailiff evictions will come out and share their stories with attendees as they enter the venue.

SPREAD THE WORD! EVICT THE BAILIFFS!
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