Anarchists set off fireworks and danced to drum and bass music in Parliament Square last night in celebration of Guy Fawkes attempt to blow up the Palace of Westminster.

On Friday, 6th November, pro-Palestinian activists carried out a blockade at Carmel Agrexco's depot in Hayes, Middlesex. The activists locked themselves to oil drums filled with concrete and positioned themselves to block the two access roads to the depot.

Plane Stupid activists along with three residents from Heathrow this evening targeted one of the potential third runway designers at this years Architects of the Year Awards held at London's Intercontinental Hotel.
Architect group Pascall and Watson, nominated for Transport Architect of the Year have been at the forefront of airport expansion since the early 1960's.*
The activists stormed the podium and gave a short speech** before offering Pascall and Watson the "We don't give a Shit" award in protest at their 50 year aviation portfolio including expansion at Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted, Birmingham, Manchester, Dublin and Abu Dhabi airports. Other activists handed out leaflets to the audience. Once the award had been presented the activists left of their own accord.

Campaigners hold second protest against plans to turn Gatwick hotel into a
detention centre

5th November 2009, 7pm

* Arora Management Services Ltd plans to turn its four-star Mercure
Gatwick hotel into an immigration detention centre.

* Campaigners vow to target Arora and Mercure until the plans are dropped.

Anti-detention campaigners are currently holding a peaceful protest at the
Mercure London City Bankside Hotel (71-79 Southwark Street SE1 0JA)
against what they describe as the hotel company's "cynical, profit-driven
opportunism." They are distributing leaflets to staff and guests,
demanding that Mercure/Arora drops its plans to turn one of its hotels
into an immigration prison.

From the SAVE THE FOUNDRY CAMPAIGN:

News just through that a hotel is to be built on the grounds of The Foundry next year. The plans are to be displayed shortly. The Foundry is a national treasure. Help re-house/re-locate The Foundry savethefoundry@gmail.com

Another good ride, apart from a few impatient drivers.

Video http://www.archive.org/details/CM30-10-09

Hundreds of miniature refugee tents lie scattered across the Millennium Bridge, highlighting the fact that millions are being displaced by climate change, and millions more will be in future if we don't act to stop it.

An mp3 of Chomsky's talk at LSE on Thursday night, entitled Human Rights in the 21st Century.

Around the country billboards containing Poppy Appeal posters from the Royal British Legion are displaying images of British soldiers in Afghanistan, or their grieving widows and family. While the appeal tries to raise it's annual £30 million, most people think the best way to help the troops is to bring them home and prosecute the politicians who sent them. Below we outline how to modify these billboards yourself to carry the messages 'BRING 'EM HOME' and 'PROSECUTE BLAIR'

Stefano Cucchi was arrested by the Carabinieri on 15 October.
He spent the night in the police station and the following day, with a fast-track trial, the judge ordered that he stay in prison while waiting for the next hearing.

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Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil: Police raids headquarters of the FAG (Federação Anarquista Gaucha, the Anarchist Federation of Rio Grande do Sul).

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In the past in Britain (and still today in most other European countries) opposing fascism was considered a duty by almost all anarchists and socialists. Today, many (particularly within the British anarchist movement) have abdicated responsibility for taking on the fascists, and either ignore the issue completely, or at best seed responsibility to specialist antifascist groups such as Antifa. Opposing fascism is something ALL of us have to play a part in, particularly with the growing influence of fascist groups like the British National Party (BNP.)

An mp3 of Chomsky's talk last night, entitled Crises and the Unipolar Moment.

Saturday 24th saw another successful edition of London's Anarchist Book Fair. The same as in previous editions, the event was very well attended throughout the day. It is difficult to say exactly how many people made it there, but looking at it from our stall we can easily say that hundreds of people (if not thousands) spent the day checking out the stalls, networking, attending sesssions and, our guess is, plotting too.

The Anarchist Book Fair has undoubtedly become a focal point for the radical, alternative, autonomous and anti-authoritarian political movements of this island, and as such, it offered a large program of talks, presentations, workshops and meetings. London IMC and Dissident Island were busy recording audio from some of these, so here there is a selection:

• Capitalism's Present Crisis: How Will It End?
• London's 2012 Olympics 
• Too Many Prisons, Not Enough Justice 
• Chat With Aki Nawaz (Fun-Da-Mental)
  
• An update with what's happening in Greece
• Ian Bone
• Postal Workers Talk

About 50 people gathered outside the Home Office in central London demanding the immediate release of Iraqi detainees who were deported to Baghdad two weeks ago but were returned to detention after the Iraqi authorities refused to admit them. A number of them have been on hunger strike since Monday, 19th October, in protest at their continued detention and inhumane treatment. One of the hunger strikers addressed the crowd from detention via a phone-loud speaker link and read out a statement by the hunger strikers.

Over 50 Students and activists protested and disrupted a lecture tonight at the London School of Economics (LSE) by Daniel Ayalon, the controversial Deputy Foreign Minister of Israel. Protesters greeted Ayalon outside of the lecture on LSE’s campus with placards and banners, whilst inside audience members heckled the controversial Minister as a "racist" and "murderer" in relation to the illegal occupation and violence carried out by the Israeli state.
Ayalon was in the UK to meet British government officials and speaking at the LSE ahead of these talks in a lecture s titled "The Middle East: The View From Israel". Security at the university was tight, with private security and police officers keeping a close watch on protesters. The Minister began and ended his lecture amid boos and chants of “Free, Free, Palestine” whilst his speech was interrupted relentlessly throughout with audience members questioning Israel’s atrocities.

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At this years London Anarchist Bookfair I grabbed Musician, Activist, Punk, Broadcaster and Musilim, Aki Nawaz who was there to introduce his film 'To Gaza With Love'.

A small group, but a workshop that brought up many very interesting ideas about the reasons for Prisons. We began by thinking about the kind of crimes that often get people into conflict with the courts.

Organised by: Bristol and Brighton Anarchist Black Cross

Mp3 Audio (below) from a very informative talk organised by Corporate Watch. Olympics: Gentrification, Corporate Interest, Corruption and Resistance.

One of the largest audiences at the 2009 Anarchist Bookfair was for the talk Capitalism's Present Crisis: How Will It End?. From the bookfair website:

The capitalist system is facing years of crisis and social instability. This raises two questions. 1. what caused the crisis? Was it greedy bankers, the natural tendencies of the capitalist system or was it the resistance of the working class? 2. How will the crisis end? Will it end with more state regulation, more cuts in living standards or with working class revolution? The anarchist bookfair and Mute magazine have invited 3 speakers to debate these issues. Paul mason, presenter on BBC newsnight and author of Meltdown; John Holloway, author of change the world without taking power; William Dixon, Mute magazine contributor.

The talk was an interesting opportunity to talk about the economic crisis - check out the audio (below).

DECEMBER SEEDS 

A GREEK SHORT FILM
An interesting short film about the revolt in Athens Greece December 2008.

you can download from indymedia athens:

www.black-tracker.gr/details.php?id=311

(Subtitles in engish included)

Lance Corporal Joe Glenton, a British soldier from York, who has recently returned from active service in Helmand province, Afghanistan, lead thousands of anti-war protesters through central London on 24.10.09. The march attended by up-to 10,000 called for all British troops to be brought home from Afghanistan. Lance Corporal Glenton has been court-martialed for refusing to return to Afghanistan, now he faces up to two years in jail for desertion. The protest ended in Trafalgar Square where people listened to speeches denouncing British involvement in the war in Afghanistan.

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Once known as Basildon New Town, and welcoming the bombed-out of East Lodon,

this Tory-lead authority is about to spend two million pounds evicting a hundred

Gypsy families from their own land and driving them

from the district.

Once known as Basildon New Town, and welcoming the bombed-out of East Lodon,

this Tory-lead authority is about to spend two million pounds evicting a hundred

Gypsy families from their own land and driving them

from the district.

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High court bailiffs turned up this morning but gave up seeing as the place was barricaded, and supporters were present both outside and inside the builidng.