Jyoti of Take the Flour Back defends the role of direct action in defending farmers and our food system.... and cuts through all that GM 2.0 nonsense.

Ever taken part in a public consultation? Maybe you took part in the UK's biggest ever public consultation "GM nation", well guess what, they didn't listen, despite a resounding 'NO' from the British public, the government has carried on pumpi…

Furtherfield Gallery

McKenzie Pavilion

Finsbury Park, London, N4 2NQ

Yesterday morning the community at Kensal Rise library in Brent, blocked the front doors of the library, preventing the council from removing their books. Fifty local residents heard the council were taking the books away, they amassed quickly in solidarity at the entrance and formed a human barracade to keep the removers inside while the police arrived on the scene at midday.

In expectation of 'First International Conference on Social Transformation' in July this year on the theme of money and alternative currency systems, Crom Alternative Exchange Association has allowed to each man to express his opinion regarding our coming collective destiny currently entwined between debt horror and radioactive insecurity from Fukushima.

Library, Bishopsgate Institute, 230 Bishopsgate EC2M 4QH

Starting from Freedom Bookstore, Angel Alley, 84b Whitechapel High Street, London E1 7QX

Lucas Arms

Grays Inn Road

London WC1

In February 2011, Climate Camp produced a statement which contained the following: “As a movement, to be relevant, we need to move with the times. Therefore the Camp for Climate Action has decided, after much discussion and reflection, to change.”

This meant no more national Climate Camps, with the intention being to “allow new tactics, organising methods and processes to emerge in …

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An English translation of anarchist analysis of the elctorial process in greece with links to the many texts coming from the various Anarchist collectives, groups and assemblies down the bottom.

If the elections could overturn this barbarism… they'd be illegal!

Today many activists including; envirionmentalists, occupiers and supporters, gathered at St Paul’s for Climate Impacts Day and International Stop the Tar Sands Day to #ConnectTheDots between people, polluters, power and profit. The Occupy General Assembly heard from communities impacted by the extreme flooding in Pakistan, explored the most devastating industrial operation on Earth, endangering…

In response to a call for solidarity from Egypt with the 600 + detainees and the 20 + killed by SCAF (military) in the latest round of repression in Cairo, activists dropped a banner on the 6th of May 2012 outside the Egyptian Embassy in London. The banner reads: Free the Prisoners, Down with the military rule.

Venue: 52 Clapham High Street, London SW4 7UN

Directions: Five minutes walk from Clapham North tube on the Northern Line

www.dissidentisland.org

May Day statement of "Collective Action". In it we outline our analysis of the problems facing the anarchist movement in the UK and offer a call out to all independent anarchist communists to participate in our project to re-visit our political tradition, re-group and re-kindle our political action.

Anti-workfare protesters brought chaos to London’s West End yesterday after the annual Trade Union May Day march and demonstration. A roving mob of around 350 people successfully shut down countless shops and businesses who use forced labour under the Government’s workfare schemes.

A roundup of the Big 6 Bash mass action at the UK Energy Summit, targetting the big corporations and government who are pulling in profits while people suffer from fuel poverty, climate change and cuts.

Around 300 people took part in the Big Six Energy Bash climate and cuts protest targeting the UK Energy Summit in London [pics].

Setting off in four blocks from different locations people converged on the summit and there were several attempts to get inside the hotel venue.

By 12.30 there had been at least two arrests with one person reported to be unconscious (unconfirmed). At 1.30pm the protes…

On the 18th & 19th June when most people will be thinking about their upcoming summer holidays – members of Transition Heathrow and the local community down by Heathrow Airport are headed for Central London County Court for a two day hearing.

Quick article roundup and some links about the global spring protests around the world...

Mayday - 3M - 12M - 15M - 16M - 18M - 20M

In May, the 99 percent will open up new avenues of resistance as activists around the world gear up for the intensification of popular protest and direct action.

For the realization is slowly beginning to dawn upon the people that nothing less will do than a revolu…

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The original intended occupation site of Occupy London - Paternoster Square - adjacent to the stock exchange, has been occupied by Occupy London on Mayday since around 6.45pm

They're calling for people to get down there as soon as possible and intend to hold a generral meeting.

A City of London police (chief?) inspector has been informing people that the injunction (against protest/camping) is s…

Occupy celebrate MayDay this morning giving out roses to communters on the tube and at Liverpool Street station. Each rose has a small message attached saying "There is something better out there" and links to their website. Further events continue later in the day with a march around the London Stock Exchange and actions against Workfare.

London-wide!

The Olympic Delivery Authority, Waltham Forest Council, Lea Valley Regional Park Authority and Nussli AG put the building site workers and community at risk to save face.

As “counter-terrorist experts”, better known as Armament Companies, gathered at the Royal Garden Hotel to guzzle champagne followed by four course dinner, pausing only to gaze over Kensington Gardens. (At a mere £156 a ticket, guess who isn’t suffering from “austerity”?) – Smash EDO, Disarm DSEi and Campaign against the arms trade held a noise demonstration, distrupting thier dini…

The Internet in Society: Empowering and Censoring Citizens? This is an animation adapted from a talk at the RSA, author and journalist Evgeny Morozov presents an alternative take on ‘cyber-utopianism’ – the seductive idea that the internet plays a largely empancipatory role in global politics.

One of a series, others include:

Crisis of Capitalism - Radical sociologist David Harvey asks if…

LARC - London Action Resource Centre, 62 Fieldgate Street, London E1 1ES (map: https://imc.li/v3il0)

No Borders activists took to the stage of the Royal Albert Hall last night at a prestigious fundraising concert organised by Barnardo's in protest at the charity's collaboration with the UK Border Agency in detaining children.

Meet 1pm: St Paul's Cathedral BRING A TENT!

Starting at 1pm, St Paul's Cathedral, with a teach-out organised by the Tent City University before we visit those who:

- Gambled with our pensions and savings,

- Created financial nonsense to make money out of thin air,

- Brought the global economy to the brink of ruin and forced ordinary people to pay for their mess,

- Paid hundreds of thousands to wine…