We are calling on everyone who can to come down to the occupy London stock exchange camp outside St Paul's cathedral to defend it from eviction as eviction is expected within the next two or three days.

UK Uncut and associated members of the 99% have decided that in light of recent news about corporate tax avoidance it is only right to make our voice heard and make sure we are not left out of these lunch meetings. As such we will host a lunch meeting in the city with a major corporation.

Update: Occupy have now vacated the space in solidarity with workers who had just been employed to renovate the building. Read full statement.

Occupy London this morning publicly repossessed Roman House, an abandoned nine-storey office building in the Barbican in the City of London which previously housed companies from the financial service industries [see views]

The Occupy London campaigne…

The main news coming out of yesterday's day of protest and action called by students, workers and cabbies seem to be that it was a highly policed event, almost reaching paranoic levels of state control and clamping down on dissent ... and controlled it was! But nevertheless thousands upon thousands of people marched - and at times pushed their way - towards the City, with clear messages against th…

An early morning start, at 7am. Rank-and-file electricians involved in a pay dispute ("sparks"), students, and their supporters took the streets outside the Pinnacle building site in the City before marching to the Cannon St construction site. They refused to be stopped by police and pushed through police lines to reach their destination [video] then leaving there just after 9am onto their stated…

A crowd of students and staff of the London Metropolitan University followed a call to demonstrate outside the University's Moorgate building during Wednesday's Board of Governors annual general meeting. They protested against the plans to close up to 70% of Arts & Humanities undergraduate courses, even though these are very popular. The damaging plans also involve cutting Student Support Services…

More than 500 people followed the call to demonstrate in defense of the NHS on Wednesday 9th. They included many medical staff concerned at NHS cuts which will close hospitals and privatise the NHS by stealth. The march started at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, and ended at the St Bartholomew's Hospital in Spitafields.



The march passed trough The City, staging a protest outside the RBS …

Repost taken from The Vast Minority blog.

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.

London Metropolitan University came to a halt on Tuesday 14th of July as hundreds of workers went on a UCU/UNISON coordinated strike in protest at continued job cuts and outsourcing. Workers and students set up picket lines at every building of North and City campuses.

At around midday a lively rally of over a hundred pickets and supporters was then held at the Central House building. Several spe…

LONDON, ENGLAND - 01.05.09: Anti-capitalists demonstrate at the Bank of England, London on 1st May 2009. The May Day street party was organised by the Space Hijackers where over 300 people gathered in a "celebration of the police state".

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The anti-authoritarian spirit of MayDay was marked this year in London with a "Guilty, A Celebration of the  Police State" street party called by the Space Hijackers. Around 300 people gathered outside the Bank of England from 5pm and partied into the evening.



Three mobile sound systems were brought into the square right in the middle of The City, as a well as a traditional MayDay pole and several…

London Mayday does not draw the numbers it used to a few years back, when thousands roamed the streets. The spirit of Mayday was still there though at The Bank, with a Maypole and dancing and some familiar faces from the past.

This morning, a group of pixies put up a large banner with the words "SMASH CAPITALISM" emblazoned on an empty building right next to Tower Hill, on the Thames.

Storm the Bank - Climate Camp at The City

The day started with a big banner reading Smash Capitalism hung near Tower Bridge and a Critical Mass bike protest. Despite hysterical media coverage thousands of people took to the streets occupying the square outside the Bank Of England. The G20 Meltdown Party saw people flood the area, some avoiding attempts by police to prevent them reaching the Bank.…

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April 1st is only a week away! Below is the crucial information you will need for camping in the square mile during the G20.

... “We Won’t Pay For Their Crisis!”

On Thursday 2nd of April the G20 (or G22) are descending on the city in a Summit to address the current global Crisis, and to discuss how to “re-stabilise” the world economy and how to re-write the rules of global Capitalism, whilst thousands of people are losing their jobs and homes on a daily basis.

Amid the biggest police operation to be launched…

Many media outlets have been publishing various lists and maps of G20 protest events,

(eg. http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/blog/2009/mar/23/online-guide-to-g20-protests

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LI118029.htm )

So here's a more accurate one of confirmed events and initiatives so far from various groups and coalitions (*more events are being announced).

For a GOOGLE map of events,…

As financial markets continue to slump around the world, several hundred people gathered in the City of London on Friday 10th to voice their anger over the British governments plan to commit over 50 billion GBP of public funds to shore up 'confidence' in British markets.

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