Art Exhibition: Tadamon Exhibition opens on the 3rd September 2010 at the Freedom Gallery. Above Freedom Bookshop down Angel Alley off Whitechapel High Street. Nearest Tube Aldgate East.
The Tadamon Exhibtion is open 12.00 – 18.00 Monday to Saturday and Sundays 12.00- 16.00 until October the 5th.
Private view 2nd September 2010 at 18.00
Map: Freedom Bookshop
About the artist: http:penniequinton.org
Climate camp activists win massive victory as police admit their actions were unlawful
Kent Police have finally admitted their policy of stop and searching climate activists at Kingsnorth power station during the week long protest in 2008 was not lawful and have agreed to pay compensation to three people who challenged the action in the High Court.
Back in January 2010 The High Court ruled in favour of the claimants, including well known London activist Dave Morris, of Haringey Solidarity Group, and two children, that the controversial mass search operation by Kent police went beyond the realms of legality.
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South African grassroots anti-poverty network organises real world cup tournament
Coinciding with the 13th June kick-off of the FIFA World Cup in South Africa, the Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign (AEC) has brought together local Cape Town communities for the first Poor People’s World Cup. The message behind the tournament is clear: ‘While the poor people in Cape Town and in South Africa as a whole are suffering, the rich are enjoying themselves in the expensive stadiums at the expenses of the poor.’ The Poor People’s Tournament ‘is not only for soccer teams, bit also for the whole community and for the people who struggle everyday against water and electricity cut-offs and against evictions from their homes and working places’.
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A South African comrade reflects on the impact of the World Cup industry on ordinary South Africans.
Whether 2010 is the “best World Cup ever” (according to FIFA President, Sepp Blatter) remains to be seen. However, it will certainly go down as one of the most interesting, which may have less to do with drama on the pitch and more to do with the political and social reactions off it. While most left-wing analyses of the event, including many of my own, have focused on the negative impacts that 2010 will have on ordinary South Africans, the wildcard in all this has precisely been the way in which ordinary people have reacted to the biggest tournament in the world.
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Workers who fought for others jobs set to lose theirs
Workers at the Swansea factory who, along with the anarchists, rallied in support of the sacked Visteon workers last year look like they will be following suit with the closure of the South Wales manufacturing plant and the loss of all existing jobs.
Linamar plans to close the factory, which produces high precision car components, by the end of the year with the loss of 208 jobs. This comes two years after they took over the plant from Ford-Visteon with a commitment to invest in its future. Within a year it had already halved the workforce and is now set to cut all links with Wales and move production elsewhere.
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Freedom now stock a selection of especially designed Freedom t-shirts. There are four separate designs in XL, L, M, and S sizes retailing at £10.00 each (postage and packing free), available to order online or buy direct from the bookshop.
There are circled A, black star (with silver edging) and Freedom logo t-shirts available in black and the infamous anarchist Wildcat available in white. Each t-shirt comes with the Freedom logo on the left hand sleeve. To order your t-shirt with a card go to the online shop or you can send a cheque made payable to Freedom Press.
Phone: 020 7247 9249
email shop@freedompress.org.uk
Freedom Bookshop
Angel Alley
84b Whitechapel High Street
London E1 7QX
Opening hours: Monday to Saturday: Midday till 6pm Sunday: Midday till 4pm
T-shirts printed by Sabcat Printing the anarchist t-shirt printers
♦ West Glasgow Against Poverty (WestGAP), the long-established, independent, community-based anti-poverty charity opened its doors on Saturday 26th June to launch WestGAP 100, a new community fundraising initiative. Hundreds of people came to their Community Advice and Resource Centre in Partick, Glasgow to find out about the group, its activities and how they can contribute financially to keep the service going. The idea is to find 100 groups or individuals willing to donate £20 per month, which would cover all the running costs.
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As children, we all studied ‘history’ in school. Initially we studied national ‘history’, and later on as we moved up the intellectual ladder we studied international ‘history’. When we weren’t studying the glories and achievements, and the development of our particular nations, we were studying ‘ancient history’. Things were made to appear quite cut-and-dry. At first there were savage, nomadic, foraging tribal humans; then there were competing kingdoms, big and small, under various rulers; finally, as we grew to be more ‘civilized’ we naturally evolved into groups of nation-states. And though we are not now living happily ever after this is still the ‘end of history’, that in the liberal, parliamentary democracy ‘we’ have achieved the highest political development humanly possible.
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A report back from the international anti-fascist festival in Italy
Freedom were invited to attend the annual “Festival Sociale delle Culture Antifasciste”, Bologna, an initiative that started in 2009 and organised predominately by “Ex-Mercato 24″ a social centre based in Via Fourivanti, a popular working class neighbourhood in central Bologna, in the process of mass urban gentrification.
Italy was the birth place of Fascism as a political and social force, and the policies and practices of fascism, as culture and as social repression, continue to leave their mark on Italian identity and politics. Read more »
A squatters’ football tournament was held on Hackney Marshes in London on Saturday 22nd May. We were disappointed to hear about what happened on the day.
It appears that one of the teams (who we’d quite like to name and shame although our sources aren’t sure of the exact miss-spelling used: the “Semi-Sicotix”?) couldn’t handle the idea of women playing footie. Their first match was against “Gore Core FC”, a mixed team which included three female players, and they made it clear pretty early on that they Read more »
Clive Bloom has just updated his magnus opus on the history of revolt and rebellion in the capital. You can buy this 550 page tome in the shop or post free from this web site (£16.99). Clive will be visiting the shop on Sunday 12th September.
We now stock a selection of especially designed Freedom t-shirts. There are four separate designs in XL, L, M, and S sizes retailing at £10.00 each (postage and packing free), available…cont
The final volume in Dave Douglass’s mining trilogy, Stardust and Coaldust, published to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the end of the miners’ strike. A first-person, insider’s view, of, probably, the last generation …cont
List of books available from Freedom’s online shopping cart
Peter Kropotkin, “The Anarchist Formerly Known As Prince”, kindly agreed to contact us from beyond the grave to update his 1902 classic book on the importance of co-operation in evolution.
The definitive book on the hero of the Mexican Revolution.
For the first time in English, Malatesta, in his usual commonsense and matter-of-fact style, sets out and critically analyses the arguments for and against anarchism.