Tag Archives: Racism
Notes from the US
Occupy The Occupy movement continues to gain momentum; though its focus and – perhaps – its lack of the kinds of analysis which anarchists favour are similar in the United States to those shortcomings in the UK. Evictions and violence by the state against the Occupiers also continue. Indeed, by the end of November more [...]
“Bring the fire here!”
No Borders activists work in solidarity with migrants who struggle against the border regime. We want to strengthen links between this resistance and the wider discontent seen on Britain’s streets against commodification and police harassment.
Notes from the US
Economics What some even inside the United States are seeing as a global movement was first manifested in New York from mid September as ‘Occupy Wall Street’. Within a few days, similar protests (at the greed and corruption of the 1% at the expense of the 99%) took place in Austin, Boston, Chicago, Knoxville, Los [...]
Brixton Riots, April 1981
To mark the 30th anniversary of the Brixton riots we reproduce an eye witness account by the ‘We Want to Riot, Not To Work Collective’ By now the social and economic background to the Brixton riots will be familiar to most people.
Big Fat Gypsy Racism
The Theft of the Commons is one of those times in history when many of us think, “wish we could’ve stopped that”. It was an episode marking out capitalism as an emerging force. Along with the many other side effects, homelessness and the first vagrancy laws came about. Many people tried to find new, creative [...]
Uniting for racism
A report on union collusion with the bosses against a political activist Photo courtesy Phil Wilson Yunus Bakhsh a psychiatric nurse from the North East has won a four year battle for unfair dismissal against his former employer Northumberland Tyne and Wear NHS trust. Yunus had a twenty three year unblemished record in nursing. His [...]
The English Defence League
Who are the EDL, what motivates them and why are we unable to connect with the very people they are attracting – the disenfranchised working class. Once again working class kids are out on the streets, kicking back at authority, attacking conservatives and the cosy status quo, standing up for freedom, ridiculing religion and battling [...]
