By all accounts the headline-making confession of cocaine use by Michael Gove, the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in Britain and one of the main contenders for the leadership of the governing Conservative Party, has had little effect on his close relations with the representatives of the Democratic Unionist Party in London and Belfast. The MPs and MLAs of the nominally evangelical DUP have apparently put their worries about Gove’s youthful – or middle-aged – indiscretions to one side, more concerned with his well-known and hardline pro-union credentials. The one-time journalist was one of the chief media critics of the Irish-British peace process in the late 1990s and early 2000s, characterising the Good Friday Agreement of 1998 as an act of surrender to the Irish Republican Army and its thirty-year campaign of armed struggle against Britain’s colonial territory in the north-eastern corner of the island…

Aotearoa Workers Solidarity Movement

Rozbrat, an anarchist squatted space in Poland, has called for solidarity in face of eviction threat.

Rozbrat is located in the western Poland city of Poznan. The property was squatted in 1994 and since then it became an alternative politics and cultural centre. It also serves as a home for over 20 people, and is both temporary and permanent shelter for homeless people.

The principal idea behind the space is grassroots organising and self-governing. It is a home to the local Anarchist Federation branch and Food not Bombs among others. The activists involved in Rozbrat have been very much part of the local and beyond projects, including Anarchist Black Cross, the Free Caucasus Committee and Workers Initiative Trade Union. The squat has also been hosting many grassroots initiatives, such as the anarchist library and publishing house, the printing workshop, self-education initiatives, bicycle workshop, a sports club…

Events coming up soon that you might want to get yourself to!

This Friday, the 21st of June, we’ll be hosting a speaker from the Black Rose Anarchist Federation. They’ll be telling us about life in Trump’s America, and the growing anarchist resistance to it!
Get down to BASE (14 Robertson Rd, Bristol BS5 6JZ) from 6.30pm for Vegan Burgers, with the talk starting around 7.30!

On Sunday 30th June, we’re calling on all environmental anti-capitalists (and anti-capitalist environmentalists) to start a Bristol/West Country Green Anti-Capitalist Front.  The plan is to bring together the various anti-capitalist campaigns already running, in order to better support each other, and to make interventions in the wider ecological movement so it doesn’t get stuck in the usual dead ends of broken government promises, individualised responses or ‘green capitalism’.
We’ll be meeting at BASE (14 Robertson Rd, Bristol BS5 6JZ)…