Tag Archives: Riot
Attica Prison riot
It was inevitable that the 10th anniversary of 9-11 would be ubiquitous in September’s media, just as inevitably there would be scant coverage of a different, though still significant, anniversary of a rather different atrocity perpetrated on American soil on almost the same day 30 years earlier – the brutal ending of the Attica Rebellion. [...]
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 [...]
Bristol Burning
Last night (Thursday 21st April) Bristol erupted as police, attempting to evict a squat in the Stokes Croft area of Bristol, were met with fierce resistance. Hundreds of people came out to defend the building, which is opposite the site of the new Tesco Express and forms part of the local opposition against the Tesco [...]
Two sides of the same coin
Two reports that reflect the diversity of opinion about just who and what the black bloc was on March 26th, its purpose and what it represents. First is an open letter to UK Uncut from Solidarity Federation, the second a communique entitled ‘Why we took out Ann Summers’ from some of those involved in the [...]
March 26th: Legal Update
Summary of arrests from March 26th 147 people charged with offences 138 people charged with aggravated trespass in connection with the incident at Fortnum & Mason. Due to appear on various dates at City of Westminster Magistrates’ Court (first being 9th May) 3 people charged with criminal damage 2 people charged with assaulting a police [...]
Class war on the streets of London
Solidarity Federation’s report on events of March 26th On March 26th, London saw people assemble to protest and take direct action against the government. Most of the people there were marching quite simply because their jobs, their services, and their livelihoods are under attack. This included those of us in anarchist blocs, though we also [...]
‘Black Bloc with Brains’ Outwits Cops…… and me!
Veteran anarchist troublemaker Ian Bone gives us his thoughts on March 26th Who were those masked strangers? After arriving too late for their departure from Malet Street I finally managed to ‘head them off at the pass Tonto’ at Piccadilly. They were the Black Bloc… I’d heard they’d broken away from the main march and [...]
Mob Rule in West London
March 26th report back from Whitechapel Anarchist Group For many of us, March 26th was set to be the big one. The anger and spontaneity of the student movement, but joined by other people from all walks of life who’s very survival is being threatened by the cuts. We wanted to join the dots and [...]
Putting in The Ritz
SchNEWS emergency bulletin on the M26 demos in London “HUNDREDS of anti-royal anarchists ran riot across central London yesterday, turning a peaceful demonstration about spending cuts into a class war” – Sunday Express Well – somebody had to do it. – The TUC’s glad-hand fest was never going to change the ConDEMS course by even [...]
We salute their indefatigability
Photo: Pennie Quinton
