Defying icy winds, a crowd of occupiers and guests assembled in front of St Paul’s on Saturday 4 January to take part in a Speak-out on homelessness.

The event, in  Poverty and Homelessness Action Week, was the first chance to specifically focus on the experience and views of rough sleepers and other homeless people who have from the beginning of Occupy London been occupiers at St Paul’s a…

On this show we've got all sorts of stuff and things from here there and

everywhere. We'll be hearing from La Quadrature du Net about ACTA, censorship

and the enclosure of the internet commons.



We'll be hearing from a member of the drive cooperative, discussing London's

newest housing coop. A person from No Borders will be in tonight too, talking

to us about the No Borders Convergence from 13-18…

A report from the Jan. 28th events in Oakland

Let us start by apologizing; that our words may be incoherent, our thoughts scattered and our tone overly emotional. Forgive us, because the ringing in our ear continues to interrupt our thinking, because our eyes are bleary and we're weighed upon by the anxiety and trauma of our injuries and the imprisonment of the ones we love. As most of you a…

Of all the events of 2011, the least predictable may well be the adoption of the economics editor of Newsnight as an avuncular figure for the left’s new generation. But Paul Mason’s gift for being in the right place at the right time, and reporting from there with enthusiasm, vitality and sympathy has made him stand out from the crowd, not only amongst mainstream journalists but also intellec…

Whither anarchism? – the current state of UK anarchism

Putting things in perspective

Anarchists in the UK today stand at a historical crossroads. Whether we identify as students, workers, unemployed, as members of a network/organization or not, we are called upon to answer this fundamental question: what is our political relevance to the larger world in the context of the struggle against a…

Occupy London is greatly concerned by what appears to be the wholly disproportionate actions of the City of London Police in breaking and entering premises being legally occupied under Section 6 of the 1977 Criminal Law Act.

Early this morning supporters of Occupy London began legally occupying the abandoned Midland Bank at St Alphage Highwalk, London EC2. For what happened next, we encourag…

London students who occupied a space in the run-up to the November 30th public sector strike were under the jurisdiction of the Met's SO15 Counter Terrorism Command, FITwatch have learned today.

London students who occupied a space in the run-up to the November 30th public sector strike were under the jurisdiction of the Met's SO15 Counter Terrorism Command, FITwatch have learned today.

Bloo…

Freedom’s December issue editorial



As the turbulence of 2011 subsides just enough for us to catch our breath and look back over the last 12 months of a truly eventful year, it seems amongst the chaos and cacophony there were moments we can take as inspiration, some we can take comfort from and others that act as warnings of things to come.



As we have said countless times in the paper these a…

Dissident Island Radio - 20 January 2012 - episode 96:

Comin' back at you fresh in 2012 with a hot and incredibly topical show as always, we'll be...

• ...hearing audio from the NYE prisoner solidarity demonstration in Holloway,
• taking a look at the widespread occupation movement across London: chatting with former and present social centre and Occupy London occupiers, we'll discuss the cha…

The following advice for anyone on JSA is from the Boycott Workfare

1. Don’t volunteer for “Work experience”!

Once you volunteer for job centre ‘work experience’ it becomes mandatory. Then if you stop doing this work experience, your benefits can be stopped.



Make sure this doesn’t happen to you:



* Do not agree to volunteer for the job centre’s “work experience”: It quickly becomes …

No one we spoke to could remember a bigger meeting in Haringey. You'd probably have to go back to the '80s, when hatred of the Iron Lady and her Tory henchmen united huge numbers of people across the borough.



But here we were, fresh into 2012, with well over 600 people packing out the hall at Downhills to find out about, and overwhelmingly to voice our opposition to, Michael Gove's proposal t…

Parents, workers and pupils at Downhills Primary School have recorded a song by the pupils and supporters in opposition to attempts to force them to become an academy.

Still in struggle, and considered to be a 'key battle' in the academies programme, the opposition by parents, staff and students to the plans to force change to academy status continues. They are currently going down a legal r…

The High Court this week ruled in favour of the City of London Corporation’s calls for the eviction of the Occupy London protest camp outside St. Paul’s Cathedral. Mr Justice Lindblom pointed to the extent and duration of the obstruction of the highway at St. Paul’s as factors behind his decision to back the City, as well as the effect of the camp on Cathedral worshippers and visitors, and an…

the crippled cruise ship Costa Concordia on its side reminded me of a morning a few years ago when I stood at a window of the Doge’s Palace on San Mark’s watching a seven storey tall cruise ship slither past. The gigantic vessel was so close we could see the faces of the passengers on deck frantically filming and photographing.

Alex Milan Tracy's latest documentary work examines medical marijuana and the users associated with what is a growing movement in the USA - 16 States currently have medical marijuana laws enacted. The focus is on a grower and four people in Portland, Oregon that medicate using marijuana for a range of symptoms. The case studies formed are reflective of the wider population of users not only in the…

You must transform yourself from a passive consumer of the wealthy’s mass media message to a creator of authentic content. You must use all of your resources to create content that undermines that very existence of the capitalist class. Ask a homeless man how he feels about capitalism, instead of a spoiled CEO. Interview a struggling mother instead of interviewing capitalism’s media faces.…

The sorry tale of the EDL is perhaps wending it's way to an anti-climax. Yesterday saw a piss-poor turn out in Barking end up in an ignominious defeat in Whitechapel.

The league decided to make a stand in Barking – long an area of widespread BNP support. Admittedley this was only intended to be a regional demo not one of their national 'big ones' but even so the turn-out was poor.

SchNEWS…

With government moves to outlaw squatting in residential buildings and the organisation of activists into a movement of positive action against the criminalising of squatters, once again radical social spaces is back on the agenda and the forefront of people’s political activity.



Groups such as Squatters Action for Secure Homes (SQUASH) and Squatters Network in Brighton (SNOB) along with t…

Rizwaan Sabir's investigation of City of London police has unveiled how OccupyLSX protesters routinely featured in its updates on terrorism and extremism. In his latest column, he explains the background and repercussions of the revelations.

Is this City of London Police ‘Terrorism/Extremism update for the Business Community’ genuine or some sort of unsubtle hoax? After viewing the picture –…

Ever since the intial statement of its City of London Policy Group, Occupy London has made a point of requesting that the City of London Corporation make full details of its Cash Accounts public. [1]

Our call has had a significant real-world impact.

On 17 November, BBC Radio 4 broadcast an edition of The Report on the subject of Occupy London Stock Exchange in which Stuart Fraser, outgoing p…

Occupy London protesters have been granted the right to continue squatting a disused Old Street magistrates’ court (pictured below) until January 23 – giving the group the opportunity to stage a series of “trials of the 1%” over the next three weeks.

The decision to allow the protesters to stay was made yesterday in the warmer climes of Clerkenwell County Court, where Occupy came to a…

Join Occupy London at St Pauls and be guided by the Occupiers through the connections between Old London, the church and the economic injustices of today.



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Dissident Island Radio - 16 December 2011 - episode 95:





- A former Foxconn employee speaks about the dirty secrets behind our techno-goodies

- Traveler Solidarity Network on moving beyond Dale Farm

- Some words about the upcoming ALARM conference (Jan 7)

- Prisoner info for comrades behind bars over the holidays throughout



You're guaranteed to hear some banter, bollocks, 'choons, announcements and the …

I have been a participating in the Occupy Movement since 15th October, and a member of the Occupy London Finsbury Square camp and media working group since early November.  The most common questions I have been asked, and have been asked over and over in the media, are:

Who is leading the occupy movement? What are the goals of the movement? Is the Occupy Movement naïve?

In this article, I…

Fascinating discussion about alternatives to the corporate net. Talk radical media at http://live.rebelliousmediaconference.org http://visionon.tv/plugandplay

On Friday 9th December the Traveller Solidarity Network organised a protest outside The Coronet, a Wetherspoon’s pub in London. This was in response to the pub’s decision to ban all the people who had been at the Irish Traveller Movement of Britain (ITMB) conference from going to the pub on the 17th November.

Around 25-30 people showed up to the pub with banners and placards and we gave o…

Nigerian High Commissioner in London turned his back on deportees today (8/12/2011). High Commissioner Dr Tafida ignored calls from protesters to stop a mass deportation of up to 70 Nigerians from London to Lagos, scheduled for the evening.

April 2011

We are not storming heaven, but being marched precariously close to the precipice. The Trade Union Congress is not our tool for emancipation – and neither can it be. Why are we being so skilfully pacified by ‘our’ institutions? We should see clearly how Brendan Barber, Ed Miliband and friends have steered us so neatly toward the cliff-edge. We might crash onto the rocks below, and in t…

Every attempt to go beyond capitalism has ended in failure. But are capitalism's present problems putting anti-capitalist revolution back on the agenda?

In the 20th century, every attempt to go beyond capitalism ended in failure. Either people looked to socialist politicians, whose reforms made capitalism even more secure, or they supported revolutions that degenerated into repression and…

The history of capitalist society is the history of the reproduction of the capitalist class relation. It is that of the reproduction of capital as capital, and — its necessary concomitant — of the working class as working class. If we assume the reproduction of this relation is not inevitable, what is the possibility of its non-reproduction?

For a brief moment the recent crisis perhaps seem…