The occupation at the University of Sussex began on 7 February over the university management’s intention to outsource 235 jobs to private companies. Since then a “Sussex Against Privatisation” blog has received heavy traffic, and yellow squares – the adopted symbol of the campaign – which have become ubiquitous across […]
400 fake adverts can be found displayed on trains across the London Underground Network today, installed by the ‘subvertising agency’ Agitartworks. The campaign is in commemoration of the ten year anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, which itself brought an end to over ten destructive years of sanctions and airstrikes […]
Since early February this year, the streets of Dhaka have been filled with protesters. Tens of thousands of voices merge in roaring chants. Along the roadside, protesters perform poetry, songs, and theatre pieces. Candles and torches illuminate the faces of old and young, rich and poor. Amidst the crowd, a […]
The Stop Deportation Network has called for action to prevent a charter flight to Sri Lanka scheduled to depart on February 28 2013. Campaigners state that the UK Border Agency (UKBA) has hired 8 aircraft to forcibly return people to Sri Lanka since June 2011. Medical reports by Freedom From […]
Freedom Press will be reopening on Monday after a monumental effort over the weekend. Over the past couple of days, over a hundred people have flocked to Freedom Bookshop to help clean up the downstairs space, scrub the blackened walls and try to salvage as many books as possible. People […]
Documents discovered yesterday during an occupation of Liverpool Town Hall’s council chamber appear to contradict claims made by Liverpool’s Labour-led Council. The council is implementing deep spending cuts, stating that “there is no money”. The documents, found on a council chamber desk, dispute this. They show that in December 2011 […]
On Wednesday morning dozens of people re-occupied the Villa Amalias in Athens, a squat which had been an active community centre for over 20 years when it was evicted late last year. Barely two hours later, it was raided by Greek police from an elite anti-terrorist named the EKAM. 101 […]
Today, on December 20th, 2012, the police raided Villa Amalias. Under the pretext of a complaint for drug dealing, they searched the building in the presence of a district attorney. Their findings are ludicrous. Nevertheless, according to Dendias [translators’ note: the minister of public order] these prove that Villa was […]
The Up The Anti (UTA) conference on 1 December aimed to budge the entrenched positions of ‘the Left’. Activists from a broad range of political backgrounds attended and engaged in healthy debates during panel discussions, Q&A sessions and in breakout groups, and united around a number of specific issues, such […]
In the run up to the Energy Bill published on 29 November 2012, which leading environmentalists agree gives covert subsidies to the nuclear industry, activists blockaded two of EDF Energy’s nuclear power stations. Subsidies for nuclear power will come via two sources: ‘contracts for difference’ that allow utilities to claim […]