Dateline: Haringey, London, UK, Sat 30 May 09 – On a gloriously sunny Saturday in May, Haringey Independence Day 2009 provided discussions, workshops, stalls, films, socialising and refreshments for everyone who cares about their community, environment and workplace and wants to change them for the better. 

"In front of us, they would refer to the immigrants that they'd arrested as 'chinkees', 'niggers' etc. They'd call black people 'spear-chuckers' and 'savages'..."

Jamil Ahmed, was employed by the Home Office from 1992 until 2007. Whilst a senior immigration officer, he launched a race discrimination case against the Immigration and Nationality Department in 2004 and was subsequently sacked by the…

We just came across this nice bit of subvertising on a telephone box in Stockwell Road:

250 people attended a demonstration at Canary Wharf on Halloween Eve. Anti-capitalist demonstrators made a series of abortive attempts to rush police lines and break through to the offices of Lehman Brothers, a failed American financial services firm at the heart of the current economic crisis (recently bought out by Barclays PLC). Police snatch squads were in operation, and at least one arrest wa…

Report in an individual capacity on the demo at canary wharf tonight. The demo was called by elements of Reclaim The Streets and the Socialist Workers Party, but was also backed by lots of the far left and anarchist groups, incuding our group Autonomy and Solidarity.

Around thirty people turned up at short notice to a demonstsratin called by the PDA on the day of the General Strike in Colombia opposite the Colombian Embassy in London at 4.30pm on Thursday in support of the Colombian indigenous people, the sugar cane cutters on strike and the Colombian social justice movement. Pictures (C) 2008, Peter Marshall. All rights reserved.

More than forty people demonstrated outside the Institute of Engineering and Technology in Savoy Place on Wednesday 22nd,? in support of Colombian cleaners unfairly dismissed by the cleaning company Amey. There was a simultaneous demonstration in Bristol outside Ameys offices there [Photo]

One of the sacked cleaners and a former trade unionist in Colombia, Julio Mayor, said:



We were sacked for …