On 31st March 2012, Campaign Against the Arms Trade (CAAT) & Stop the Arms Fair (STAF) launched a campaign to ‘Disarm the National Gallery' in Trafalgar Square, London. A video of this action including never seen before footage of protests & discussions inside the National Gallery and an interview with BBC correspondent & Channel 4 reporter Paraic O'Brien at Stop the Arms Fair 2011 can be viewed …

On Saturday 7 January, the weekend before the tenth anniversary of the opening of the illegal prison camp at Guantánamo Bay, over 200 people from London and other parts of the UK converged outside the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square to mark this unfortunate day in history and to stand in solidarity with the 171 prisoners who remain there. Organised by the London Guantánamo Campaign (LGC), the…

Another Occupy! site was taken on Sat 22nd Oct at Finsbury Square by Moorgate in the heart of the financial centre, after hundreds took part in a 'tour of corporate greed' march that snaked its way past the bank of england [video]

Two tripods were set up as police rushed to the scene to find people setting up tents. The occupation quickly grew in size with 55 tents set up by sunday and several w…

Friday 7th October 2011 marked the tenth anniversary of the start of the current NATO-led war in Afghanistan in 2001. As well as leading to the death of thousands of civilians and soldiers, the war in Afghanistan is also the birthplace of one of the lesser known aspects of the so-called "war on terror": the torture and arbitrary detention of thousands of prisoners of all ages and nationalities.

FREEDOM AND UNITY FOR ALL KOREANS -OPEN THE BORDER-

Over 10,000 trade unionists and campaigners marched through central London today to defend the welfare state and public services. The march was called by the National Pensioners Convention (NPC) and supported by all the major trade unions. It was designed to frame the election debate and send a clear message to all prospective MPs of the opposition to cuts.

Pensioners were prominent on the…

At 6pm (ish) on Thursday 9th of July, a small group of Culture Jammers (http://adbusters.meetup.com/92/) demonstrated outside the Odeon cinema at Leicester Square in order to spread positive ideas, pictures and quotes by writing on the pavement with chalk....

Injunction served on occupation with immediate effect, call out for support. Students occupying the directors office of SOAS university request people to get down to the russell square campus now to help resist the eviction.

Students at the School of Oriental and African Studies (Soas) have occupied the director's offices in protest at the detention and deportation of nine cleaners [video]. Immigration officials detained the cleaners after an early morning raid on Friday last week. At least five have already been deported - some to Colombia, which has an appalling track record of targeting trade unionists.

Over 50 pe…

Thousands of British Tamils gathered in parliament square to mourn the dead and injured in the war in Sri Lanka. People young and old laid flowers and lit candles in memory of friends and relatives. MP Tony Benn held the Tamil flag in solidarity, as earlier in the day police officers had attempted to confiscate them from protesters.

with news of more than 1000 new deaths and thousands injured in just a few hours today in Vanni, tamils in london are calling for a solidarity protest outside the US embassy, grosvenor square on monday morning to urge barack obama to intervene.