Friday 16 March 2012 marked the 100th episode of Dissident Island Radio - our centenary! And with that in mind we decided to make it a bit special. Alongside the usual mix of music, banter, and special guests on the mic we be heard an extended piece on the consolidation of neoliberal capitalism in Europe post 'crisis'. The discussion focuses primarily on the situation in Ireland, Spain, and Gre…

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National and International

National and International

INCA CGIL meeting hall, 124 Canonbury Road, London N12UT

An obitury for Gil Scott Heron

The revolution in heaven will not be televised

…And I was hurt and scared and shocked when they sent a limousine from heaven to take her to God if there is one...1

Now that limousine has taken Gil Scott-Heron to heaven; and he will see to it that God, if there is one, has a lot of explaining to do. The revolution in heaven will not be televised, but poet…

UK Uncut's Occupy for the Alternative have continued their weekly weekend occupation of Trafalgar Square, this week coinciding with the May Day demonstration which marched from Clerkenwell Green to Trafalgar Square. London, UK, 01/05/2011.

The Million Women Rise march passed through London ending in Trafalgar Square to demonstrate against male violence in celebration of International Women's Day (IWD) which has been recognised since 1911. London, UK 05/03/2011.

Last Saturday 22nd of January a demonstration took place in Barcelona to protest against the latest wave of 'reforms' and cuts that the Spanish government is imposing to the country, and specifically against the cuts in the public pensions system. The demonstration was called on the run up to this Thursday's general strike called throughout Catalunya by the anarchosyndicalist unions CGT, CNT, Soli…

Episode 74 was a busy one for us, so put on your listening hat(s) as we begin by hearing a discussion about resistance to GM and the plans for January's Stop GM gathering. Live in the studio we had two of the occupiers of the new Bloomsbury Freeskool, telling us about where they're at and their plans for the building.



Next us we had one of the many anti cuts updates from groups such as the IWW, UK…

The protest at EDO MBM/ITT, a top ten U.S. defence contractor, aimed to shut the factory down for the day. Hundreds of police ensured that no one got near the facility and ended the day with mass arrests. Brighton, United Kingdom, 13/10/2010.

A protest was held at the Russian Embassy in London in support of two anti-fascist activists who are in custody in Moscow for their involvement protesting against the proposed Moscow to Saint Petersburg highway. London, United Kingdom, 20/09/2010

Thousands of people took to the streets of London for International Worker's Day starting from Clerkenwell Green, whilst many turned out to attend the Mayday Meltdown organised by the same people as the G20 demonstration last year. The four horsemen of the apocalypse converged on Parliament square, from different locations carrying effigies of Griffin, Clegg, Cameron and Brown. They were then…

Tomorrow Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg will be holding the second national televised public debate in Bristol, with international affairs at the head of the agenda. Whilst many will be sitting comfortably at home assessing how they each react and respond to questions from the audience and examine their debating skills, the planning behind this event is seen as a censorship of democrac…

A small group of protesters gathered outside Kensington Olympia to speak out against the counter terror expo, sponsored by arms company Thales and organised by Clarion events. London, United Kingdom, 14/04/2010.

An alternative proposal to Chavez's "5th international"

Ethiopians gathered opposite Downing Street to protest against the visit of Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi. Today he met with Gordon Brown concerning the UN climate change finance group. London, England, 31/03/2010.

Over 500 women took to the streets of London marching down Oxford Street and Regent Street to Trafalgar Square, calling for a stop to male violence against women two days before International Women’s Day. London, United Kingdom, 06/03/2010.

A small group of protesters belonging to the European NGO Council on Drugs (ENCOD) gathered outside the Malaysian Embassy in London to speak out against the death penalty for drug possession and use in Malaysia. London, UK. 04/03/2010.

A small pro-Palestinian protest was held outside the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), as the Israeli deputy foreign minister Daniel Ayalon spoke on issues relating to the Middle East. London, UK 08/02/2010.

On December 1, President Barack Obama officially announced a massive escalation of the U.S. war on Afghanistan, tripling the number of American military personnel there since Obama took office. This move marks a decision by Washington to continue the colonial occupation of Afghanistan indefinitely, and with it the bloody slaughter of the Afghan people. Obama’s claim that he would “begin the transf…

In December 2008, we created an anti-fascist mural in Bochum, to commemorate those seven anti-fascist from different european countries, who had been killed by neo-nazis during the last years.



After we photographed the whole process of production, we brought those and several other materials together and made a documentary of it, about the mural and the background of the seven murdered antifas.

The G-20 meeting to be held in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania is taking place in just under a month (Sept. 24-25, 2009) and it would be nice to receive some advice and/or words of solidarity from London G20 protesters about how to achieve success with this round of protests.  Online support via Twitter updates & Blogs would be helpful too!  You folks have experience and we need to here from you in the st…