Didn’t they learn anything from the attempted eviction of Can Vies two years ago, and the popular response that ensued? Have they not yet understood that when you attack the autonomous fabric of a neighbourhood in a city like Barcelona, it will cause the underlying the social, political and economic […]
Picket London Metropolitan University This Friday 28th November 12.00 – 2.00pm Outside London Metropolitan University Tower, 166-220 Holloway Road, London N7 8DB Islington Against Police Spies demands that London Metropolitan University sack lecturer Bob Lambert – Police spy, agent provocateur, exploiter of women. These days Robert Lambert works part-time lecturing on Criminology […]
This week, the UK Home Office is planning to follow through with the deportation of a Congolese national seeking asylum from persecution for involvement in dissident political organising. Bienvenue (named by the Home Office as Nguyinimau Benvido) is scheduled to be deported to Angola on Tuesday 12 August, where it […]
On the edge of the centre of town, an abandoned recycling factory sits at 10 Impasse Des Salines. Here over 100 migrants sleep at night and a further 300 arrive during the day to use the basic facilities and to have access to, what will be for some, their only […]
On the evening of 29th May, The Artworks Boxpark in Elephant and Castle held a preview opening for potential tenants and, as it turned out, a number of local residents. The new pop-up Boxpark sits on the ruins of what was once a public park next to the Heygate Estate. […]
Since the 2011 uprising, the people of Egypt have faced horrific violence and an uncertain future. Following the ouster of President Mohamed Morsi in the summer of 2013, further chaos erupted between pro-Morsi supporters and those sympathetic to what has been dubbed the ‘Tamarod movement’. The protests left hundreds dead […]
An Athens labour club (Nea Smyrni) has recently launched an initiative to provide free primary care and medication, primarily to unemployed and uninsured people in the area. The Medical House and Pharmacy, staffed by doctors, nurses and pharmacists, has been created following concerns with the attacks on public hospitals by […]
For anyone watching what was happening at the central building of the University of Athens on July 8 2013 the feeling was one of reliving images from the 1967-1974 military dictatorship, especially if we take into consideration that collective memory in Greece is still haunted by the image of a […]
On Friday afternoon a group of Warwick University students from Protect the Public University – Warwick occupied the University Council Chamber. They are protesting against the Warwick Vice-Chancellor’s pay increase of £42,000 as part of a deeper opposition to the continuing marketisation and privatisation of higher education. At a time […]
In the days leading up to last May’s NATO conference, Chicago police preemptively arrested a number of activists across the city. Nearly a year later, five of those activists, now known as the NATO 5, remain incarcerated. Two have taken plea deals. Three are awaiting trail. NATO5 actually refers to […]