On the afternoon of Wednesday the 18th of February over 50 students of the University of East London occupied a lecture theatre in protest over Israel's blockade of Gaza and the recent atrocities inflicted upon the people of Palestine.  We have remained in occupation for over four days now.

Wednesday, 18th February

Today a group of vallient freedom fighters numbering 15 invaded London. The bloody brutes of Barclays, King Street, were target number 1 of our crusade today.

BAE Systems, Europe's largest defence contractor, is gearing up to supply the United States with new armoured vehicles for President Obama's troop surge in Afghanistan.

A small group demonstrated outside parliament calling for the construction of the 3rd runway.

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The London Guantánamo Campaign and Brighton Against Guantánamo held a demonstration on Tuesday (17 February) lunchtime to call on the US president to release British resident Binyam Mohamed who has been held at Guantánamo Bay without trial for over four and a half years. Free Binyam now!

                 Update: Binyam Mohamed returns home!

Apologies for the minor downtime just now (as far as we can tell it was only a few minutes).  Due to the recent server seizure, Indymedia London has been crowded onto a new machine with relatively small disks, and we ran out of disk space, which has all kinds of strange effects on a running website.  We'll be looking to improve the situation in the near future.

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photos of small demonstration in parliament square this afternoon. it seemed massively and oppressively over-policed.

BAE Systems and Shell have announced their principal sponsorship for the UK's largest ever national science, technology and engineering fair for young people and teachers. 

The inaugural Big Bang will be held at the QEII Centre in Westminster during National Science Week on 4 - 6 March 2009 and will attract around 10,000 people. The company is committed to sponsoring the fair in 2009, 2010 and 2…

While the National Union of Journalists was teaming up with comedian media activst Mark Thomas , Chris Atkins (the BAFTA nominated director and writer of the feature film documentary Taking Liberties), Marc Vallée (photojournalist blogger), The British Journal of Photography and others for a “media event” outside New Scotland Yard, I was busy trying to take photos useful for all m…

Thursday, 12th February - Barclays, AIG and BNY Mellon have demos in the city.

Friday, 13th February - Barclays and Astrazeneca named and shamed

Pictures from London and the February 11th 'Eleventh of Every Month Until Justice' street action. Visit truthaction.org for more details on International Days of Truth Action and to see more pictures/reports from around the world.

Occupying Goldsmiths Students win total victory in 29 hours.

Eye Witnesses and the authors of "The Wounds of Gaza", published in the Lancet last week, Dr Ang Swee Chai and Dr Ghassan Abu Sittah, will speak at our next IFY meeting at Islington Town Hall on Monday, 16 February 7pm.

The Spike surplus scheme of 39B Consort Road, Peckham is being evicted as we speak. Bailiffs, cops, PCSOs and "community wardens" are on site.

After a ten year project in the building which has been in community use for 150 years, the property division of Southwark Council have decided to end the project. Though they promised to give notice to clear the project's equipment before eviction, Southw…

Students at Goldsmiths college have occupied the Deptford town hall building in the centre of the campus. The red and black flag has been hoisted above the building and a banner embalzoned "OCCUPATION" has been hung on the front of the building.

The students have occupied the building in the aim of securing two scholarships, for students from Al-Quds university, which Goldsmiths is twinned with.

Wednesday, February 4th

Even more financial demos in the City of London

maria gallestegui has been advised by doctors to finish her hunger strike before doing permament harm to her body organs. she will start eating again after demonstrating outside the cabinet meeting at number ten this morning (tuesday) after 30 days without food

Photos from tonights picket of Kensington and Chelsea Town Hall in protest of the grand reception for the Israeli Ambassador.

Central review in English of the Internationalist Communist Group (ICG)

Our grand new site has been up for a while, and besides struggling with events that transcend the sphere of our influence, we've been trying to get rid of bugs and generally improve the site. In order to do so, we've been looking closely at how people use the site. Doing this, I have noted some things that I don't understand. Lacking a general way to get in touch, I've decided to write an open let…

At 7.30 this morning, demonstrators arrived in front of the Carmel-Agrexco warehouse for a sunrise picknick, only to discover 40 members of the Metropolitan Constabulary staging a blockade in solidarity with Palestine.

Thursday, 5th February

On the back of another undercover HLS video expose, we hit the streets in the early morning at BNY Mellon's office in Queen Victoria Street to shame them for their shares in this again disgraced company. Security were surprised by our early morning presence.

Staying in parliament square, Maria Gallestegui continues her hunger strike for Gaza. She has yet to receive any worthwhile mainstream media coverage, despite now lasting 25 days without food.

Her demand is simple, and humanitarian - that the government publicly demand an end to the blockade of Gaza, announce an end to arms sales to Israel, and press for an international tribunal into Israeli war…

InfoUsurpa and Offline infosheets now available to download, print and distribute!



InfoUsurpa revived as a networking tool for Social Centres in London and their participants, and Offline bringing the news back to the streets.

HLS caught on camera abusing primates - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg-uetBwGho

Last weekend, the Global Women's Strike and the International Women Count Network launched a two-week-long international gathering focused on grassroots organizing against systemic violence. Dozens of organizers from five continents have gathered at the Crossroads Women's Centre in London and are convening a series of public sessions at the Venezuelan Embassy. Among the participants is Esther Mora…

On 1 February, several newspaper reported that Binyam Mohamed, who has been on hunger strike for over a month, is "close to death". Today, a High Court judgment revealed that the US bullied the UK into not disclosing information it has about Binyam's torture in Morocco or it would not share intelligence information any more (please see Reprieve press release below). Take action now...time is runni…