Tag Archives: Anarchist Federation (UK)
New Radical groups round-up
Several new anarchist/solidarity groups and initiatives have been set up in different areas around the country. Check to see if there’s something happening in your area. Leicester AF re-established In November a number of Anarchist Federation members met up in Leicester to plan activities and set up a fully functioning AF group. So now it’s official [...]
Radical books and magazines update
AF anniversary issue It feels like the next few years will be dominated by the economic climate. As surprised as the state has appeared to be about the riots and attacks on police in our major and not so major cities and towns, it has perhaps also been a surprise to see how quickly the [...]
Edinburgh Class Struggle Day School
Saturday 3rd December 10am – 5pm The Pleasance Cabaret Bar 60 Pleasance Edinburgh EH8 9TJ » MAP The Edinburgh Class Struggle Day-school aims to be an open coming together of workers, students and the unemployed from different backgrounds and class struggle political tendencies in Edinburgh. It is a meeting place open to all who wish [...]
N30 must just be the beginning
Statement of Anarchist Federation (London) on N30 Perhaps as many as three million workers will be striking on November 30th in the biggest round of industrial action since 1926, with members of 24 unions represented. Alongside this will be various actions including occupations and demonstrations.
June 30th: An anarchist teacher’s perspective
With the up and coming Nov 30th general public sector workers strike and ‘day of action’, and the Nov 9th national demonstration for education we re-visit an article written by an anarchist teacher after the recent June 30th one day strike as a useful guide to possible strategies and how we can best utilise our [...]
News from around the movement
Scottish defiance The resistance of Edinburgh’s refuse workers continues amid fresh offensives from the city council. The dispute between the workers and the city council over proposed changes to working patterns along with a significant wage cuts started in 2009 as the city council looked to cut wages to its entire manual workforce including road [...]
June 30th: An anarchist teacher’s perspective
As an anarchist, I was not initially impressed by the idea of a one day strike. It didn’t sound very militant- going out on strike at the end of term after the exams were over when the students were about to finish in any case; there wasn’t going to be much impact. However, having now [...]
Round up of anarchist activity
The London group of the Anarchist Federation have now held two successful meetings on the cuts. The first meeting was held at Freedom Bookshop on the Thursday after March 26th and there was a lively discussion with 30 people participating (two of whom turned out to be Times journalists and wrote a shock-horror story in [...]
Radical Workers’ Bloc: Anarchists organising for March 26th
On Saturday 26th March the Trades Union Congress has called for a march against the cuts, and there is going to be a South London feeder march starting at Kennington Park which we will be joining. South London is one of the areas to be hardest hit by the cuts and has seen some of [...]
Anarchists organising
As pointed in the letter of Pho Nenayme (23rd April 2011, p11) the Anarchist Federation already supports Freedom and the bookshop in several ways but perhaps members (new or old) could write more for it. It’s good to know via this letter that Freedom would like more AF members to write for it. However, we [...]