Tag Archives: London
Emergency demonstrations – London
Deptford United Emergency demonstration against the cuts which caused the riots Wednesday 10th August 6.30pm from The Anchor, Deptford High Street to Lewisham Town Hall.
Riot Update
Multi-millionaire prime minister David Cameron issued a carefully worded press statement this morning about the new tactical approaches the police may take in the next few days if the riots continue throughout the UK. He said “the police are already authorised to use baton rounds… and while they are not currently needed we now have [...]
Second night of rioting in the capital
The capital has once again witnessed scenes of massive social unrest in a second night of rioting across the North London borough. People took to the streets in a collective outpouring of anger at the police shooting and killing a local man Mark Duggan on Thursday 4th August. Last night’s demonstration at Tottenham police station [...]
The Siege of Sidney Street
Anarchists came out on January 3rd to commemorate the centenary of the infamous siege of Sidney Street where hundreds of police were held at bay by a pair of armed Latvian revolutionaries suspected of being part of a gang who some weeks earlier had attempted to rob a jewellery shop killing three policemen in a [...]
Anarchists of the East End
Joe Jacobs, communist organiser and anti-fascist, recounts his first encounter with the anarchists, in an extract from his autobiography Out of the Ghetto Memory can play tricks on you and you will forgive me if my dates are not always exact, but it must have been 1925. I was almost twelve years old with a [...]
CON instigated in East London
An ambitious CON was initiated in September this year in the form of the Counter Olympics Network. As the real con of the London Olympics gets closer and closer we have decided to organise around it. To use the spectacle of the games to build existing networks of struggle in East London and beyond.
London Anarchist Bookfair 2010
Freedom Press will be having its usual stall at this year’s London Anarchist Bookfair – the biggest annual anarchist event in the UK. Available will be copies of the much anticipated AFA book Beating The Fascists, as well as a special edition of the newspaper. Saturday 23rd October 10am – 7pm Queen Mary University of [...]
Social centre evictions
Setback for squatting movement at the sharp end of the housing crisis In July and August of this year Crown Estates and Dunbar Bank were, in separate cases, granted possession orders for several of their squatted properties in south Hackney, London. In the case of Dunbar Bank, the order was in respect of 195 Mare [...]
London’s Feminist Library
Discover the treasure trove that is the Feminist Library On a busy road in south London, there is a large and rather decrepit looking building. Occupying five small rooms on the first floor is the little known but much loved Aladdin’s cave of feminist writing and activism, the Feminist Library. The Feminist Library was set [...]
North London Solfed’s response to the London riots
With media sources blaming “anarchy” for the unfolding violence in London and across England, the North London Solidarity Federation felt a response from an anarchist organisation active in the capital would be appropriate.