Schools, health and nuclear waste dumping – communities fight back!
Parents in Sheffield have joined together and formed a protest group to campaign against their local secondary school becoming an academy. The group KES PLEAS (King Ecgbert School Parents for Local Education Authority Status) is angry at the school Governors going behind parents’ backs in ensuring the school is changed to academy status.
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“Revolution must be cultivated by means of systematic propaganda, step-by-step measures, careful planning, and rationally formulated programs that are flexible enough to meet changing social needs: in short, it must be cultivated by a responsible, dedicated, and accountable movement that is serious and organized along libertarian lines”. Murray Bookchin
Putting things in perspective
Anarchists in the UK today stand at a historical crossroads. Whether we identify as students, workers, unemployed, as members of a network/organization or not, we are called upon to answer this fundamental question: what is our political relevance to the larger world in the context of the struggle against austerity and beyond?
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Occupy
The Occupy movement continues to gain momentum; though its focus and – perhaps – its lack of the kinds of analysis which anarchists favour are similar in the United States to those shortcomings in the UK. Evictions and violence by the state against the Occupiers also continue. Indeed, by the end of November more than 5,000 people had been arrested in Occupy retaliations across the United States.
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Two Nottingham residents, a wheelchair user and a retired paediatric nurse, dubbed the ‘Atos Two’, have been charged with aggravated trespass following a protest at the local offices of Atos ‘Healthcare’. They will stand trial at Nottingham Magistrates Court on February 27th and 28th.
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Tracing the politics of the crisis
I remember my Political Economy lectures at university when the European Union was held up as a successful model of a political and economic ‘superstate’ which other continents in the world could follow. I remember shuddering at the very idea of such mega-scale integration and central control, only one step behind Bertrand Russell’s insane idea of a ‘world government’, even as we struggle to contain the growing power and aggression of the nation-state itself.
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Can the electricians’ dispute reinvigorate grassroots militancy
Just before Christmas over 50 mechanical and electrical workers occupied the headquarters of BBC Scotland in Glasgow. It was part of an ongoing campaign of co-ordinated protests by electricians and other skilled workers, over the decision by the big eight construction companies to withdraw from the 40 year old Joint Industry Board (JIB) national agreements.
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NGBailey sites: NGB/No Go Besna
Ballot papers gone out for BBES a yes vote is imperative for strike action to be able to begin on 9th February. This week coming is ‘NGB’ week where Rank and File sparks are hitting ‘NGB’ sites countrywide. It’s time to up our game. This is an important week of demonstrations and it is imperative that we make a huge impression on as many sites as we can.
Wednesday 25th Jan:
» Kings Cross station • 6.45am
Euston Road
London N1 9AL
MAP
Facebook page
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No Borders activists work in solidarity with migrants who struggle against the border regime. We want to strengthen links between this resistance and the wider discontent seen on Britain’s streets against commodification and police harassment.
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This morning, the Pinheirinho favela in Brazil has been violently cleared by 2000 Military police officers. The brilliant resistance of the last couple of weeks is sadly tainted by the tragic death of seven people defending their livelihoods.
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Freedom’s December issue editorial
As the turbulence of 2011 subsides just enough for us to catch our breath and look back over the last 12 months of a truly eventful year, it seems amongst the chaos and cacophony there were moments we can take as inspiration, some we can take comfort from and others that act as warnings of things to come.
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January issue of Freedom is available to buy in the shops. The UK’s longest running anarchist publication is now monthly, with new sections, more features, and an expanded format – all for just £2. More…
We have lots of new books, magazines, journals and pamphlets in stock. Come down, have a browse around, enjoy a cup of Zapatista coffee and pick up the latest crop of radical literature. More…
Wildcat Keeps Going Another classic set of satirical political cartoons from the pen and the mind of Freedom’s longest serving comrade. More…
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The final volume in Dave Douglass’s mining trilogy published to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the end of the miners’ strike.
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.
Bakunin proclaimed “Proudhon is the master of us all,” while for Kropotkin he laid “the foundations of anarchism.” Property Is Theft! collects his most important works in one volume, making many available in English for the first time. Extensively annotated and introduced by editor Iain McKay, Property Is Theft! is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in the history and development of anarchist principles and practice.