We just sent this over to a couple of people in Greece to get some feedback, but seeing as they’re already sharing it around Athens we thought we might as well release it.

From the teargas clouds of Syntagma Square emerged a new approach to the crisis. Community kitchens, clothing exchanges and other acts of practical solidarity. It’s not charity, it’s practical solidarity. “We’re not givi…

www.dissidentisland.org

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

As part of the 12M Global Day of Action that occurred in over 350 cities, around 700 protesters gathered at St Pauls to take a tour [map | pics] of the financial institutions responsible for much of the crisis. Throughout the march, City of London police repeatedly tried to slow and halt the march and there were clashes as people pushed through police lines. The tour concluded at the Bank of E…

Audio of David harvey talking in Bristol on 11/05/2012 about urban space, capitalist accumulation, Occupy, and alternatives to neoliberalism

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!

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.

After the London Mayday trade union march up to 300 people took part in a roving anti-workfare demo with a banner reading "Workfare is Stealing Your Jobs", shutting down various branches of MacDonalds, Greggs, Topshop, BHS, Holland and Barrett and others including Boots, Pizza Hut, Greggs and more all along Oxford street and beyond. The protest was called by the London Solidarity Federations and…

One of the early Mayday protests and celebrations has been taking place at Liverpool St station, with people from Occupy London and supporters spreading their mayday message with roses, informing people about the workfare protests and the global protests happening throughout the month of may.

Lucien van der Walt, co-author of the groundbreaking Black Flame gave a talk in London in December 2011 and spoke at length about the book and anarchism’s historical role within a global perspective, here are some snippets of an extraordinary look at our anarchist history:

Case against

We would argue that in any case the notion that Spain was exceptional is incorrect. If we want to look …

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…

At noon Occupy London will be joining the thousands coming together for the May Day March in London. Assemble at Clerkenwell Green from noon, then at 1pm moving off to Traflagar Square where there will be a rally. More info at http://www.londonmayday.org/.

Spending public money to "save" money seems to be the way to go. The Ministry of Justice's privatisation and outsourcing of various public services is already proving to be more costly and inefficient than the public-run services they replaced, as demonstrated by a protest by court interpreters outside the Ministry and Parliament on Monday 16 April

Crossroads Women's Centre

25 Wolsey Mews, Kentish Town

London NW5 2DX

By Marianne Maeckelbergh and Brandon Jourdan

On 29 March 2012, millions of people across Spain went on strike. The strike, which was the first general strike since September 2010, brought the country to a near halt. The situation in Spain has grown increasingly difficult with 1 in 4 people out of work and many struggling to make rent or mortgage payments.

See a video summary of the general s…

Insurrectionary anarchism

The idea of the worldwide Children's Revolution on May Day is for the women and children in the environmental movement to lead the marches all over the earth, and show that the World Revolution is peaceful and will save humanity from being driven to extinction by the burning of fossil fuels. The proposal for the worldwide Children's Revolution is for kids' marches to be at the front of all the …

West end, central London

As part of the national day of action against workfare and the IWA days of action, South London SolFed picketed the health food shop; Holland & Barrett along with 20 other locals in solidarity with a day of action around the country. This was a protest against workfare and the way the government is forcing people into work for no or little pay.

Venue: The Socialist Party's premises, 52 Clapham High Street, London SW4 7UN

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

Short video showing a group of undercover cops being expelled from the demo by an angry crowd after they had attacked a demonstrator during the morning's mobile pickets of the general strike of 29 March in Barcelona.

Here's a 6 minute long video summary of the riots in downtown Barcelona during last week's general strike of 29 March. The video is from the local TV station Sant Andreu TV.

Bloomberg Headquarters, 50 Finsbury Square.

Transnational call to action!

#BLOCKUPY FOR GLOBAL CHANGE!

* Transnational call to action in Frankfurt, May 16-19 * International solidarity in our common struggle *

Noone has summarised the past years' wave of uprisings, from Cairo to Wisconsin, better than Paul Mason in his latest book: 'Why It's Kicking off Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions'. Here are some reviews of the book:

Centrepoint, Tottenham Court Road, London

52 Clapham High Street, London SW4 7UN

About five minutes walk from Clapham North tube on the Northern Line