This is a guest post by Anton Grinevsky and Alesia Grinevskaya “There is no crisis in Belarus”. This is the official position, but it’s a long way from the truth. Everything started last autumn during the presidential race, leading up to the December elections. Every day, the state media showed all kinds of positive coverage [...]
Last week’s seminar at the Frontline Club asked a very pertinent question of the Occupy London movement pitched outside St. Paul’s. What do you want? I was surprised to see from the show of journalistic hands that the majority in the room did not know exactly what the protesters are camped out for, though, given [...]
Yesterday’s news that the Met is giving its officers access to plastic bullets for tomorrow’s student demonstration is, obviously, pretty disturbing. I’d guess it’s pretty unlikely they’ll actually be used – making a big announcement to the press two days before the event looks a lot more like an attempt to warn off any would-be [...]
It’s not always easy juggling a full time job as a tax journalist with the life of an ardent activist. Sometimes it’s difficult finding the time to duck out to save the world on your lunch break. But when there are several hundred people camped a few feet from your office by St. Paul’s preparing [...]
I have to first apologise about the vague title of this post, but I found it somewhat resembling the confusion on which direction these occupations might take. While I disagree with some of what Jacob has written previous to this post on here, I will say that we must remain thinking, all the time, about [...]
Question: When far left groups talk about “confronting” the EDL, as the AWL do in their analysis of the protests in East London on Saturday, what exactly do they mean? I ask this because I’m increasingly getting the unpleasant impression that far too much discussion of how to deal with the EDL and their ilk [...]
On Saturday one of my fellow Third Estaters (I’m assuming Reuben) tweeted: Definitely don’t think the left should be calling for a state van [sic] on the EDL march While compelling, I think this view is seriously mistaken. Granted, it’s always a good idea to be wary of calling on the State to do anything [...]
I. What follows is an account of one of the most politically interesting nights I have experienced. At 6.30pm on Wednesday, I arrived in Deptford High Street for a demonstration of unity, called by an assembly which had met the night before. An odd collection of local leftists and community activists, along with various other [...]
OK, I’ll admit it. It was pretty damn funny, and it’s hard to deny that Rupert Murdoch should be somewhere near the top of anyone’s list of ‘people who richly deserve a righteous plate of shaving foam in the face’. Equally, though, it has to be said there’s something which grates about the long-awaited calling [...]
For the first time in a decade, I find myself sitting in an office writing about tax rather than camped in a muddy field in Somerset getting inebriated on strawberry cider. Am I bitter I’m not at Glastonbury? Well, yes. I can’t say I’m too sad to be missing tonight’s headliners U2, however. But while [...]
