Fargate Speaker issue no. 11 Dec 2009/Jan 2010In This Issue: Sheffield stands against deportations, surviving a Credit Crunch Christmas, Fargate Calling – a look at…
EDINBURGH WORKERS STAND UP TO COUNCIL CUTS. New York tenants’ action wins, Scottish Defence League routed, Workplace round-up (postal strike, East London buses, Sheffield strike city, British Ariways), Resistance in Greece continues, Bastard of the Year awards, NATO visit Scotland, Opencast mine opposition, La Minga struggle on in Colombia.
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The Anarchist Federation condemns the group Unite Against Fascism (UAF) who, on Saturday 31st October at a mobilisation against the English Defence League (EDL) in…
This article was published in the Late 2009 issue #230 of Black Flag magazine, pp. 4-6, with the title ‘Is the war of work lost at long last?’ and was offered here in advance of the No To Welfare Abolition planning meeting on Saturday 14th November 2009 in Manchester. The Welfare Reform Act (2009) got it’s Royal Assent on the 12th.
The Crisis
The crisis in modern society isn’t just about economics. It’s about the crisis in the environment too and about the crisis in international relations. Several major wars are being fought “on our behalf” whilst worldwide rabid nationalism., fascism and fundamentalism are making headway. All of these crises effect each other. We need to examine the effects of these crises, how they interconnect and whether a solution to these problems is possible.
A series of public meetings convened by the Anarchist Federation (London group)
Nov 18th 2009, Dec 16th 2009 & Jan 14th 2010
Motorways all over Ecuador were blockaded for days in late September as people from indigenous communities all over the country made their way to Quito…
The British National Party has been getting a lot of attention lately, from politicians, the media, and most importantly from sizeable sections of the working-class who feel that the BNP represent their interests. Housing, work, pay and welfare are all issues which the BNP have supposedly taken up whilst claiming to represent the “British working-class”. The BNP however is stooped in a tradition of fighting against our class, from collaborating with rich business owners to calling for the ending of, and actively working against workers’ struggles, such as strikes. Despite this, the BNP are still attempting to tap into the working class, especially in former pit towns and dilapidated industrial zones as a way to increase their support by blaming the problems which the bosses (represented by the past and current Tory and Labour governments) have created, on asylum seekers, migrant workers, women and LGBT people, in other words, blaming other working class people for problems they have not created and are also suffering from themselves.
TIME FOR A CHARM OFFENSIVE? Articles include: Policing after the G20 protests, G20 & the New Capitalism, Occupations – a brief history, Anarchist Movement Conference report, China ‘the Harmonious Society’, Surrealism today, Book reviews: Mutual Aid; Anarchism & Homosexuality in the US; Anarchist seeds beneath the Snow. Film review: Fish Tank.
THE ROYAL MAIL STRIKES: THE TRUTH. TNT workers’ protest, English Defence League, Defence of Free Spaces, Resistance in Greece, Obama Peace Prize, Serbian anarchists targetted, UK Party Politics and the Economy, Workplace tactics in France, new pamphlets, new Organise! magazine out. Download PDF or read online:
In a case that clearly exposes the vicious cruelty and insanity of borders and nationalism, a trainee radiologist has been jailed for 19 months for the “crime” of not being from England. Felista Peters, a 28-year-old resident of Bristol, was close to graduating when she was arrested after it was found that she had false documents and was actually from Kenya. If she’d been born in this country, she could now be working as a radiologist and helping to save lives, but because she committed the crime of being born elsewhere, she’s been imprisoned, so her skills are of no use to anyone. She will be deported on completion of her jail term. Even viewed from the narrowly selfish perspective of the “national interest”, whatever that is, it’s impossible to see how our society benefits more from locking this woman up and then flying her out of the country than it does from allowing her to practice medicine; from any vaguely humanist viewpoint, the punishment for this victimless offence is even more inexplicable.
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