Right, so I assume you were all up bright and early to get to your post picket line (unless of course, like me you live nowhere near a big mail centre, and have to wait till tomorrow morning for the delivery offices). But it doesn’t stop there. This is the day when the BNP’s Fuhrer [...]
The following is a message from the Scottish Palestinian Solidarity Campaign: An arrest warrant was issued at Friday’s court hearing against Sofiah MacLeod, Scottish PSC Secretary currently in Palestine witnessing Israel’s racist dispossesion of Palestinians. The warrant was cancelled shortly afterwards, however. Sofiah will bring her recent experiences of Israeli state-driven racism when she goes [...]
Reports emerged yesterday that a heavily bleeding woman was prevented from leaving April’s G20 protests after being violently pushed back by police officers with shields. It is the latest in a string of reports of serious police misconduct and brutality on the demonstration which saw newspaper vendor Ian Tomlinson die after he was struck by [...]
Hugo Chavez has a long memory. Himself the victim of a right-wing coup backed by the country’s elite, it is hardly surprising that the Venezuelan leader has been amongst the most vocal supporters of protesters in Honduras struggling to restore Manuel Zelaya, the leftist president ousted in a military coup last week. As Zelaya attempted [...]
“…to ‘send back’ every one of ‘these people’ would cost a total £6,250,000,000. That’s a ridiculous amount of money! We could have another war somewhere out of that!”
175 years ago this week there was a march of 100,000 people from Copenhagen Fields in Islington (before it became gentrified, of course) to Kennington Green, in support of the Tolpuddle Martyrs, who were sentenced to transportation to Australia, for setting up a union. There is a week of commemoration of these protests in and [...]
As almost all of the readers here will know, this week has seen protests in London, the likes of which have not been seen for ten years (June 18, Guerilla Gardening, Mayday Monopoly.) They were impressive because of the form that they took, rather than because of their size, and because people were gathered not [...]
