Tag Archives: Repression
Occupy Oakland police repression
What really happened at Occupy Oakland on Saturday January 28 A firsthand account For the internet, here’s a first-hand account of Occupy Oakland on 1/28/2012, because the news never tells the full story. I’ll tell you about the street battle, the 300+ arrests, the vandalism, the flag burning, all in the context of my experience [...]
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.
An Olympic Challenge
2012 the year of state repression Between 27th July and 12th August the Olympic Games will be held in the UK. Predominantly based in and around London, but also including Coventry, Manchester, Cardiff, Newcastle and Glasgow, the organisers boast it will be “the biggest global event of the year” already declaring it a cultural and [...]
Police raid on local radical paper
State repression of political dissent On the afternoon of August 17th, police raided a house in central Bristol where an editor of local newspaper The Autonomist lives. Riot police kicked down the door of the property without warning, detained the inhabitants for two hours, and seized articles relating to the production of The Autonomist. Delighted [...]
Riots: Police monitor beaten in back of police van
Independent police monitor punched and kicked to the head and legs in back of police van, while monitoring policing of disturbances. The Network for Police Monitoring will make a complaint to the Metropolitan police after one of its volunteers was arrested and beaten by police while monitoring the policing of disturbances in Enfield on the [...]
Police free to kill
Friends and family of Kingsley Burrell, a 29 year old father who recently died in suspicious circumstances while in the custody of the police, gathered in Birmingham city centre on Saturday 2nd July and marched with a crowd of over 1000 people to West Midlands police headquarters in an angry protest calling for justice and [...]
More anarchist arrests in Italy
A second wave of arrests of radicals took place in Florence at the beginning of May. The operation, led by the police and secret service departments, concluded with a total of 78 people under investigation, 22 banning orders and five under home arrest. All are believed to be connected with the local social centre Spazio [...]
Anti-Anarchist Crackdown
In a repressive wave against anarchist insurrectionaries across Italy, five comrades of the Bologna group Fuoroligo have been arrested, and seven others have been cautioned and put under restrictions. According to recent updates a sixth anarchist has been arrested in the city of Ferrara. The arrested have been charged with ‘subversive association with criminal intent.’ [...]
Chilean Anarchist Prisoners on Hunger Strike
April 11th 2011 marked the 50th day on hunger strike for the Chilean comrades listed below who stopped taking food on 21st February. They have so far spent 180 days in prison accused of membership of an illegal organisation and some specific individual charges relating to attacks attributed to anarchists over the last few years. [...]
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.
