Category Archives: News
Total policing: Rave on
A new technology is being developed that will allow police the opportunity to disperse crowds with an electronic sound system fitted to riot shields. A US company is in the process of testing the new patented device that emits a low-frequency sound which resonates with the respiratory tract, making it hard to breathe.
Grassroots community action round-up
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 [...]
Cracking the whip – case against the ‘Atos Two’
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.
The Return of Rank and Filism
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 [...]
Sparks week of protest: Wed 25th Jan
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 [...]
Gang Warfare
Welcome to a new era of political policing When Oxbridge graduate Bernard Hogan-Howe began his new job as Metropolitan police commissioner in September he brought with him the quaint PR phrase ‘total policing’ (that he himself coined when chief of Merseyside police) as a way of introducing himself into the new role as top cop.
Military £600m consultants
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) were forced to admit that spending on consultants is out of control, as a freedom of information request revealed that the government military department has paid out almost £600m in the last two years on consultants alone. The document revealed the MoD spent £564m on “technical support”, in comparison to [...]
Social Centres breakout
With government moves to outlaw squatting in residential buildings and the organisation of activists into a movement of positive action against the criminalising of squatters, once again radical social spaces is back on the agenda and the forefront of people’s political activity.
Radical London – community organising
London wide meeting Saturday 14th January • 4pm-6pm London Action Resource Centre 62 Fieldgate St London E1 6ES MAP AN APPEAL TO ALL RADICALS AND ANTI-AUTHORITARIANS Why we should all help form radical local community-based groups
Winter blues
How energy companies are making a killing Despite an uncharacteristic mild autumn, winter brings with it the necessity of increasing gas and electricity consumption to keep warm during periods of lowering temperatures. Typically many people cannot afford to do so. The number of those in fuel poverty, those dying unnecessarily because of the cold, especially [...]
