a few dozen protestors targetted a range of high street outlets at lunchtime today, highlighting the businesses that exploit workfare labour, paying nothing for workers forced into modern slavery under threat of losing benefits. police attempted to stop activists from entering any of the businesses in a cat and mouse game over a couple of hours.

The massive March for the Alternative demonstration and day of action has come and gone, and what a day it was! Indymedia London was busy reporting the whole day and, together with other radical media projects such as the x26radio live streaming, it offered reporting infrasructure so those taking part in the demonstrations, occupations and actions could tell the story collectively in real time, f…

In the run-up to March 26th, I developed two criteria by which to measure success: (1) it had to be big, i.e. the biggest thing since the February 15th anti-war march; and (2) it had to be a clear statement that the anti-cuts movement would not allow the TUC to strangle its militancy. On both counts I think it can broadly be considered successful.

We marched from Kennington Park and made our way up to Waterlo, joined the main march at Westminster Bridge and then moved slowly, past Downing Street and on to and Trafalgar Square. From there we broke off from the main march and on to Oxford Street where a number of shops were in the process of being targeted for unpaid taxes...

Shoppers on Oxford Street were today surprised when a march of about 700 protesters, many of whom masked up, suddenly appeared on Oxford Street. Traffic was blocked and a few plastic bins thrown into the road. The speedz march, supported by a mobile sound system pumping out tunes, turned up Tottenham Court Road. Somewhere on the way about half the crowd must have taken a different way, as there we…

11.20am. As part of around 23 decentralised actions across the country London's Oxford Street Top Shop has been shut down by over one hundred UKuncut protestors.

People gathered inside the store shortly before 11am. Security began physically throwing out press or anyone with 'big lenses' whilst a sit down was held, stickers saying "this item is free"  were plastered about, and chants rang out

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Vodafone's flagship store on Oxford Street has this morning been occupied by people protesting at its avoidance of a £6bn tax bill having routed money through a Luxembourg subsidiary. At a time when the country is facing savage cuts it's clear there's one law for the rich and corporate and another for the rest of us. Resist the cuts! Join us.

More actions are planned - expect to see more especia…

On 25 September, activists from FRFI and other groups held a lively demonstration outside Marks and Spencer on Oxford Street, to mark 10 years of Palestinian Intifada and 10 years of the weekly picket against M&S

'Buy nothing day' is an annual international anti-consumerist day. Put simply: people are encouraged to stop shopping for one day. This year's cellebration was marked in London with two different events on Saturday 29th. In Brixton activists that had met up at the Library House Social Centre set up a 'free shop' next to the tube station, whilst in Oxford St the Space Hijackers invited people to "T…