At 10.30am, students, workers and residents from across Bloomsbury occupied a disused University property. From today, 53 Gordon Square will be renamed the "Bloomsbury Social Centre. The building has been empty for three years, subject to a legal dispute over its ownership. One of the claimants, the School of Oriental and African Studies, has this year announced that the property is to be redev…

noam chomsky gave the keynote speech today at the weekend-long rebellious media conference in london

The building at 11 Bedford Square has been set up as the Anti-Cuts Space London. The building belongs to Royal Holloway, and some of us are Royal Holloway students; but we don't want this to be an occupation organised around demands made on our education institutions. We want the occupied space to be a convergence centre available to all anti-cuts activists in London.

'arts against cuts' is a a group of artists, students, lecturers, cultural workers and others. this morning, before the student march in london, they staged a banner drop and occupation in the british museum as part of their campaign to educate the public about, and protest against, the cuts and their effects on the arts.

Three members of the art activist group Culture Beyond Oil poured non-toxic black oil around the British Museum’s world famous Easter Island sculpture, in protest at BP’s sponsorship of the museum. Emily James, Director of Just Do It, happened to be there and captured the action.

Following similar actions at the Tate Modern, Tate Britain and National Portrait Galllery in recent weeks, …

Dateline: SOAS, London, UK, 19:15-21:30, Thu 21 Jan 10 – At that current hotbed of radicalism, the School of Oriental and African Studies, in a packed-to-capacity room in the Brunei Gallery, three marxist public intellectuals were posed the question "Revolution: Possibility or Impossibility?" You can see and hear how William Dixon, Chris Knight, and Hillel Ticktin fielded this issue in the follo…