The London Mass meets at 6.00pm on the last Friday of every month on the South Bank under Waterloo Bridge, by the National Film Theatre.

The London Mass meets at 6.00pm on the last Friday of every month on the South Bank under Waterloo Bridge, by the National Film Theatre.

The Vestas occupation continues - DEMONSTRATE in London TONIGHT, 6pm outside the Department for Energy and Climate Change, off Whitehall.

During the week a group of activists from the London Neighborhood of the Camp for Climate Action travelled down to the Isle of Wight to support the workers of the Vestas who have occupied their factory in protest at the companies decision to close the factor, export the production and dump over five hundred jobs. I went down with them to document their visit...

Demonstration held to highlight migrant situation in Calais.

AstraZeneca, 15 Stanhope Gate, London, W1K 1LN

This morning we made a surprise visit to AstraZeneca in one of the richest parts of London - near the US Embassy. It was something that the staff definitely did not want to see as they came into work. Pathetic workers struggled to pull their blinds down to shield their eyes from the placards we were holding. They might not want to know the truth, but…

Campaign for Real Democracy – London meeting at the Whitechapel Gallery

Timings: 18:30 for 19:00-20:30, on Thu 23 Jul 09

Location: the Guernica space, Whitechapel Gallery, 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, London, E1 7QX

Location Map: tinyurl.com/CRD-23Jul09-map

Public Transport: Aldgate East tube

YouTube video shows roadside ambush on mayor over lack of funding for rape crisis centres in London.

Campaigners say Boris Johnson failed to spend £744,000 promised for female victims of sexual violence

Direst action = Result, Only I predict a marked reluctance for politicians to embrace the cycling culture...

See video and article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/2009/jul/21/campaigners-john…

Following a call from No Borders groups in London and Brighton a group of people demonstrated outside London's French Embassy on Monday 20th to protest the repression and planned mass deportations of migrants living around Calais, France. See full article for pics and background information. More reports 1 and 2.

More Info: Calais Migrant Solidarity | Calais No Border Camp June 2009 | Video: Afte…

Earlier in the year it seemed to accepted almost as fact that this summer would see waves of unrest and street riots. But half way through summer none have happened. Peter Hogan takes a brief overview of the reasons why people haven’t come out onto the street in any great numbers.

Full article: http://www.lasthours.org.uk/articles/what-happened-to-the-summer-of-rage/

The Royal Court of Justice, Strand, London WC2

Dissident Island celebrated thier second anniversary with a show streamed on Friday 17th. This London based free radio station has been broadcasting on the internet every first and third Friday of the past 24 months, with a great mix of grass roots politics and live DJ sessions. Dissident Island is probably the longest running regular radio show in London of such kind, and a quick look to their ar…

Demonstration at the French Embassy in London, Monday 20th July



London NoBorders and No Borders Brighton are calling for a demonstration outside the French Embassy in London on Monday 20th July to protest the repression and planned mass deportations of migrants living around Calais, France. (see  http://london.noborders.org.uk/node/196 and http://calaismigrantsolidarity.wordpress.com/)



Where: Fr…

Rampart Social Centre

Rampart Street

Whitechapel, E1

Monday 20th of July

12:30- 14:30

Greater London Authority, City Hall.

The Queen's Walk, SE1 2AA

Closest station London Bridge.

London Metropolitan University came to a halt on Tuesday 14th of July as hundreds of workers went on a UCU/UNISON coordinated strike in protest at continued job cuts and outsourcing. Workers and students set up picket lines at every building of North and City campuses.

At around midday a lively rally of over a hundred pickets and supporters was then held at the Central House building. Several spe…

The Apple Tree pub, 45 Mount Pleasant, WC1 (Russell Square, Farringdon, Kings X or Angel tube).

The UN human rights instruments have excluded a number of rights which particularly affected the independent peoples (e.g. small business) and the most disadvantaged. They prevent the poor from helping themselves. It is apparent these rights were considered incompatible with neo liberalism and globalization. They constitute 'bottom-up' rights which the discontented will need to struggle for and ha…

Activists from Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Greece blocked the gate of the closed detention centre in Lesquin (Lille, France). This action took place during the start of the No Border Camp in Calais, the 24th of June 2009, where an exagerated police force was summoned to avoid direct actions...

If the cell form of capitalism is the commodity, the cellular form of a society beyond capital is the common. Nick Dyer-Witheford discusses the circulation of commons and the conditions they would create for new collective projects and waves of organising.

It has been eight lean years for the movement of movement since its Seattle high point of 1999. Since September 11th 2001 many activists’ ener…

On April the 4, 2008, Moscow cops beat up and arrested seven young men near metro station Sokolniki in Moscow. Now one of them faces up to 5 years of prison.We ask you to support the Global Action Day in support of Seva Ostapov on July the 18th and carry out solidarity actions.

Trinity United Reformed Church, Buck St. London NW1

We are asking the Prime Minister to ensure that NHS service provisions and funding arrangements for services for adults with ADHD are reviewed and revised urgently

The lying policeman - BBC Panorama footage edited with my Climate Camp G20 protests documentation... Complaints about police actions regarding the police's controversial "kettling" tactics to surround crowds. Two perspectives one of Asst Commissioner Chris Allison and the other of his officers on site who used "kettling" on the peaceful Climate Camp G20 protesters against orders to the contrary gi…

“Seven winds in the lower calendars and geographies:

first wind, a worthy and angry youth”.

Subcomandante Marcos, Ezln, Chiapas, Mexico.

Message to the greek rebels on december 2008.

On July 8th, 9th and 10th the president-master of the italian government, Silvio Berlusconi, will host the summit of the “Big Eight” of the Planet. The…

REPORT BACK FROM THE CALAIS NO BORDERS CAMP



No Borders campaigners, calling for freedom of movement for all people and an end to migration controls, culminated their week long camp in Calais (See SchNEWS 681) with a demonstration outside the city’s main port last Saturday. Over 2,000 people took to the streets against the increasingly tight border controls at the channel crossing, the bottleneck…

A liberated venue somewhere in London

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454-490 Mile End Road (old car showroom)

London E1 4PE (map) oppo…

More news is emerging of just how dehumanising and brutal have been the effects of the immigration raids at SOAS organised by external contractor ISS shortly after the cleaners won union recognition and pay rises to the level of the London living wage.

One of the UNISON members picked up, who was traumatised by the clandestine nature of the raid and the appearance of around 40 officers in full bo…

The Dog House, 293 Kennington Road, SE11 6BY

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