Monthly Archives: December, 2009
Anti-fascist round-up
♦ Anarchist anti-fascists came together as part of an international callout by RASH (Red and Anarchist skinheads) and Antifa Russia to honour the memory of Ivan Khutorskoy, who was murdered by fascists on Monday 16th November. London-based antifascists, RASH’s and SHARP Skins, gathered at the International Brigade memorial on the South Bank of the River [...]
Angry Brigade Poet Dies
Anna Mendelson, also known as Mendelssohn, one of the Stoke Newington Eight, has died aged 84 after a long battle with cancer. Mendelson, along with seven others, was tried in 1972 for a number of fire bombings, as part of the Angry Brigade, in what became the longest political trial of the twentieth century. She [...]
Crisis at Christmas
No let up for the recession during the festive season At this time of year the financial burden of ordinary people becomes all too obvious – struggling to maintain basic living standards over the Christmas period on dwindling personal incomes and savings, while the state of the economy is thrown into sharp relief by the [...]
AF Solfed Christmas Social
Sunday 13th Dec. 5pm onwards. London’s Anarchist Federation and Solidarity Federation will be holding their annual festive social at Freedom this Sunday.
Copping the Bill
The HMIC report on protest policing – a new direction or a triumph of style over substance? There is no denying that the latest report on the policing of protest by the HMIC (Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary) is hugely critical of the police. Throughout the 220-page document there are many polite ways of saying [...]
Illegalism and Insurrectionary Anarchism
The recent arrest of Alfredo Bonanno on suspicion of an alleged bank robbery in Greece has exposed the risks and reopened the controversy surrounding the tactic of political expropriation. Whilst criminality remains in the arsenal of the movement on the continent, its use in the UK is rare. It is often argued that this is [...]
Chinese Authorities Fail Miners’ Families
Relatives of miners killed in one of China’s worst mining disasters in recent times are furious that authorities have provided them with next to no information about the situation. At least 104 miners were killed in the explosion last month at a mine in the city of Hegang, near the Russian border. Another 65 people [...]
French Posties Say NON!
UK parallels unmistakable as EU postal directive hits La Poste As a massive public outcry continues to build throughout France against the privatisation of postal services, thousands of workers have gone on strike against a free-for-all market. The anger of the workforce at proposed changes to the sector led to a major demonstration on 24th [...]
Star Tarnac Witness Recants Testimony
A star witness for the French police in the Tarnac Nine court case against anarchists accused of railway terrorism has recanted his testimony and accused police of misrepresenting and pressuring him into condemning his friends. Jean-Hugues Bourgeois, a farmer who lives next door to the commune in which the Tarnac Nine live, was used by [...]
Economic Commentary
In this fifth part of his look at the financial crisis, John Griffin examines the secret handouts given to banks I thought we’d got to the end of the banking saga, but then on the 24th November Mervyn King (pictured right), Governor of the Bank of England, revealed further handouts to RBS and HBOS which [...]
