And the gold medal for hypocrisy goes to... David Cameron

Atos ­sponsoring the Paralympics when its benefit tests are a sick joke is an insult to disabled people

Is it too much to hope that a British medal winner emulates American heroes Tommie Smith and John Carlos with a raised fist salute at the London 2012 Paralympic Games? Probably.

The black power salute of the US athletes in Mexico 44 …

Former gold-medal winning Paralympian to join UK Uncut and Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) at ‘The Closing Atos Ceremony’. The two groups have vowed to shut down Atos’ HQ at Triton Square in Central London during the Paralympic Games; promising direct action, creative protest and ‘plenty of surprises’. The action will be taking place on Friday 31st August at 12:45pm.

Rachel Corrie's death was an accident, Israeli judge rules

Judge finds no fault in military investigation that cleared defence force of responsibility for protester being killed by bulldozer

The death of the pro-Palestinian activist Rachel Corrie was not caused by the negligence of the Israeli state or army, a judge has ruled, dismissing a civil lawsuit brought by the family.

Corrie's dea…

Kingsgate Community Centre, 107 Kingsgate Rd, London NW6 2JH

Embassy Of Belarus. 

6 Kensington Court.

London.

W8 5DL.

Nearest Tube: High Street Kensington.

 

URGENT REPORT:

IMMINENT DISPLACEMENT PLANNED,

GROWING TERROR IN SAN MARCOS AVILÉS 

August 6, 2012

Compañer@s:

Greetings to you all from Movement for Justice in El Barrio, the Other Campaign New York.

In view of the seriousness of the latest acts of hostility and aggression in the community of San Marcos Avilés, the Zapatista support bases (BAZ) have urged us to share this report with yo…

I will remember all that happened here; I will remember what we are capable of; I will learn from past mistakes; and I will push for a better future.

 

August 17, 1:24 PM (13:24)

After months of militancy in the streets of Montréal, the student strikers now must face off with their biggest foe yet. Yes, the SPVM (Montréal Police) and the SQ (Provincial Police) were known for their brutali…

"This isn't a student strike, it's the awakening of society." -Quebec protest banner

Across the globe, young people are speaking out. They are using their voices and bodies to redefine the boundaries of the possible and to protest the crushing currents of neoliberal regimes that ruthlessly assert their power and policies through appeals to destiny, political theology and unabashed certainty.…

Chris Marker, an enigmatic figure in French cinema who avoided publicity and was loath to screen his films yet was often ranked with countrymen Alain Resnais and Jean-Luc Godard as an avant-garde master, died at his home in Paris on Sunday, his 91st birthday.

His death was reported by Agence France-Presse, but the cause was not given.

Marker, who worked well into his 80s, made more than two d…

Forward plan for an emergency...Forward plan for an emergency...Forward plan for an emergency... 'VIGIL FOR IRAN' END THE SANCTIONS – NO TO WAR!

Only the people organizing and speaking out NOW can  prevent war with Iran.

Starting Wednesday 12th September 2012 at 5pm til 7pm

Parliament Square, Westminster, London SW1A OAA

 

When Juan Manuel Sánchez Gordillo led a farm labourer's raid on a supermarket he was redistributing wealth to the poor. You'd expect nothing less from the mayor of the communist utopia of Marinaleda

Last week, and not for the first time, Juan Manuel Sánchez Gordillo found himself in the Spanish headlines. Dubbed "Robin Hood" by El Pais, Sánchez Gordillo, the mayor of a small town in rural Anda…

Family, friends, and more than 200 people from the community met last night to remember Sean Rigg, as his sister Marcia vowed to bring the police officers involved with his death to prosecution.

The crowds squeezed into the Assembly Rooms at Lambeth Town Hall, Acre Lane, for speeches and a film screening before walking peacefully to Brixton Police Station to light candles for Sean, who died fo…

An important ruling is expected early in September from the European Court of Human Rights, regarding whether or not US prisons respect human rights enough for the UK to extradite ‘war on terror' suspects to the US. We interview activist/journalist Aviva Stahl from CagePrisoners.com alongside Hamja Ahsan, the brother of Talha Ahsan, one of the appellants that will be seriously affected by the Sept…

Portobello Pop Up Cimema.

3 Acklam Road, London, W10 5TY

Nearest tubes: Ladbroke Grove = 2 mins.  Notting Hill Gate = 15 min walk down Portobello Road

The Pop Up Cinema is underneath the Westway motorway on the Portobello Road/Acklam Road junction (opposite Portobello Green Market). 

It is within the concrete belly of the underpass itself, slightly set back from the road.  Easily spotted by st…

Sixteen anti-nuclear protesters - half of them Japanese - gathered outside the Japanese embassy in Piccadilly, London on Friday morning (10 August), for the second week running, in a demonstration organised by London-based group Kick Nuclear. This was in solidarity with weekly demonstrations taking place outside the Prime Minister's residence in Tokyo and elsewhere in Japan against the restarting …

The government's proposed Energy Bill is set to offer a blank cheque to the nuclear sector to build more power stations - a move which renewable energy firms fear will kill off future investment in green energy

Dateline: Court One, Westminster Magistrates Court, London, UK, 11:45 Wed 08 Aug 2012 – In a political trial targeting public protest, all sixteen defendants arrested during in an OccupyLSX banner drop at Panton House on Wed 30 Nov 2011 were today ACQUITTED OF ALL THE CHARGES laid against them by the Crown Prosecution Service. After five days in court, a shed load of jubilant innocent people cel…

Japanese Embassy, 101-104 Piccadilly, W1. (Nearest tube Green Park. Walk west from there in the direction of Hyde Park Corner.)

THEN

Tokyo Electric Power Company, Incorporated (TEPCO), Berkeley Square House, Berkeley Square W1J 6BR (5-10 minute walk from Japanese embassy)

Somewhere near Bridgwater, Somerset

11am, London Blackfriars / Victoria Embankment, Sat 20 Oct 2012

Though, for most, the London Inter-Bank Offer Rate (Libor) interest rate fixing scandal appears to be distant and far too complex to understand, its potential consequences may be as economically devastating as a world war.

Blues night to for Anarchist Federation

Juke Joint Saturday Night Saturday September 1st at 7.30pm 



62 Fieldgate Street 

London E1 1ES

Our annual school takes place in a world in great flux. Given its explanatory power and practical programme, Marxism has huge potential in this period – a potential that is irresponsibly squandered by the sectarian in-fighting and opportunism of the Marxist groups. Communist University points a way out of this mess. August 20-26 2012 in south London.

Over seven days of intense and open di…

Our annual school takes place in a world in great flux. Given its explanatory power and practical programme, Marxism has huge potential in this period – a potential that is irresponsibly squandered by the sectarian in-fighting and opportunism of the Marxist groups. Communist University points a way out of this mess. August 20-26 2012 in south London.

Over seven days of intense and open di…

Our annual school takes place in a world in great flux. Given its explanatory power and practical programme, Marxism has huge potential in this period – a potential that is irresponsibly squandered by the sectarian in-fighting and opportunism of the Marxist groups. Communist University points a way out of this mess. August 20-26 2012 in south London.

Over seven days of intense and open di…

Our annual school takes place in a world in great flux. Given its explanatory power and practical programme, Marxism has huge potential in this period – a potential that is irresponsibly squandered by the sectarian in-fighting and opportunism of the Marxist groups. Communist University points a way out of this mess. August 20-26 2012 in south London.

Over seven days of intense and open di…

Our annual school takes place in a world in great flux. Given its explanatory power and practical programme, Marxism has huge potential in this period – a potential that is irresponsibly squandered by the sectarian in-fighting and opportunism of the Marxist groups. Communist University points a way out of this mess. August 20-26 2012 in south London.

Over seven days of intense and open di…

Our annual school takes place in a world in great flux. Given its explanatory power and practical programme, Marxism has huge potential in this period – a potential that is irresponsibly squandered by the sectarian in-fighting and opportunism of the Marxist groups. Communist University points a way out of this mess. August 20-26 2012 in south London.

Over seven days of intense and open di…

From the Workers’ Olympiad to the perversion of Olympic sport

Speaker: Keith Flett

Location: Caxton House, 129 St John’s Way, Islington, N19

 

Ruth, Jess and Charlotte recently took up a rented property in Bethnal Green through Victorstone Property Consultants, paying £3,451 as rent and deposit. After they had only just moved into the house, Victorstone fell out with the landlords over the fees they would take, the landlords decided they wanted to get out of the letting, and changed the locks.

Ruth, Jess and Charlotte have managed …