Monthly Archives: December, 2009
Jailed for Keeping Schtum
A 33-year old has been sentenced to nine months imprisonment for refusing to decrypt his personal computer files. The unnamed man is believed to be the first person sentenced under Part III of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA), which came into power in October 2007. RIPA Part III was set up on the [...]
Bush Demo in the Courts
The seven day trial of George Anton and George Orton concluded on 1st December with Anton’s acquittal and Orton facing a retrial in April after a hung jury. Both had been charged with violent disorder (section 2 Public Order Act 1986) for their participation in the demonstration in Whitehall against George Bush’s visit to London [...]
Support for Polish Militants
Members of Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and the Polish Anarchist Society staged a picket outside the Polish Embassy in London on 29th November in solidarity with the militant factory workers from the Cegielski plant in Poznan, Poland. A dozen or so activists hung a banner on the railings and leafleted the area in [...]
Blair’s War Crimes
Tony Blair continues to court controversy as more revelations emerge about his decisions to take the country to war. The official inquiry into the Iraqi war, headed by senior civil servant John Chilcott, finally began on 24th November, six years after the invasion. Set up by Gordon Brown in June of this year after mounting [...]
