To counteract the recent backlash led by professional journalists against diversity of tactics in the Occupy movement, we sought out our comrades from the heart of the black bloc and asked them to tell their side of the story: where they come from, why they participate, how they see the world. Here follows an in-depth personal reflection on why the black bloc is so contemporary and what this m…

(Publisher's comment: Miliband is a politician - scum. I'm not sure I would support this defense of him below but the comments on the role of Suffragettes, and Miliband's completely incorrect reference to them in his speech, is interesting, especially in the context of the current mainstream "good" vs "bad" protestor rhetoric, providing us a bit of historical context of the role of direct action a…

Saturday 18th December saw around 55 decentralised UkUncut actions taking place across the country, with seven in London.

Vodafone, BHS, TopShop [twitvid] [video], HSBC and M&S were shut down in Oxford Street, with protests in other stores like Boots and more shops closed in advance of the demonstrations. Earlier spectacular actions in the snow took place in Brixton [utube video] and Hackney, whi…

Dissident Island Radio - 5 November 2010 - EPISODE 69:

Holy crap. This is a firey hot, jam-packed show. Here's what you can look forward to:

• Our friends from the band 52 Commercial Road on the imminent release of their long-awaited 2nd album on 12 November
• the totally awesome printer's co-operative, Footprint, on their 10th birthday festivities and zine fair
• an interview from this week's 

LARC - and pumpin' out your stereo!

LARC - and pumpin' out your stereo!

Sea Shepherd Wietse, during his brief stint back on land, talked to Dissident Island about the exploits of the Steve Irwin during its Antartica campaign Operation Waltzing Matilda as well as the imminent Mediterranean campaign, Operation Blue Rage...

LARC - whitechapel, and pumpin' out of your stereo!

Rebellion, a spark in search of a powder keg - the new Action Update is out, the quarterly round-up of ecological direct action from the UK and beyond.

What's in this issue?

Old King Coal meets his Match, but the Nuclear Empire Strikes Back! Read tales of flotillas, bishop-bashing, blockades and occupations as the Rebel Alliance takes on the Empire. The rebels have also been hanging around in net…

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