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Reel News 18 Out Now

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featuring the amazing victory won by ex-Ford workers at Visteon! After factory occupations and the threat to picket out workers at Ford's state of the art plant at Bridgend, Visteon and Ford were forced back to the negotiating table - where they conceded a redundancy package better than the Fords package the workers were demanding. This will make it the biggest …

Taking a Walk around Town - and pics

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Lots of people in kettles and pens, some not trickle-tight, but so much cops, it was hard to even get a glimpse at the protesters at bank. Every police line surrounded by onlookers, who occasionally effectively blockade the streets. The amount of all types of cameras, camcorders and mobile phone recording is ttally mad.

Some nice moments: a small group of riot cops walks quickly through a crowd o…

Banquet at the Bank

April 01, 2009 12:00

Bank of England. Thread Needle Street

Bring friends and family food to share.

Love your rage, not your cage - G20 communique

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ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!

The bankers are having a laugh - still - at our expense. They pocket £650,000 a year pensions - for life! We get redundanciesclosed shopshouses repossessed, the dole queueno future for our kids.

Gordon Brown and Peter Mandelson are responsible for the credit crunch as much as their banker pals - pals shared with Cameron and Osbourne's City slickers.

The pathetic TUC…

THE PEOPLE vs. BANKSTERS

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Following the Monday Snowfall and Chaos, THE PEOPLE had challenged the BANKSTERS to a snowball fight. While spirits on THE PEOPLE's side were high, and fair play was held high to the point of offering snowballs to the opposing team, the BANKSTERS by and large gave a poor performance, hiding behing glass walls, displaying aggressive behaviour, even trying to deprave THE PEOPLE of their snow stash. …

Hope in Common

From one of the bellies of financial capitalism reaches us David Graeber's analysis of the current crisis, a look at the recent past of our movement and the lack of organised resistance to capitalism.

We seem to have reached an impasse. Capitalism as we know it appears to be coming apart. But as financial institutions stagger and crumble, there is no obvious alternative. Organized resistance appe…

Anticapitalist Halloween at Canary Wharf - Fotos

About 200 people gathered tonight at Canary Wharf to celebrate the demise of capitalism.