But if you take a moment to stop and think about it, it’s not hard to see the colossal irony here: this is the Armed Forces we’re talking about. Their entire purpose is to kill large numbers of foreigners. This isn’t overblown rhetoric or anything, it’s a simple fact that if, at various times over the last century, soldiers refused to kill Germans, Italians, Koreans, Egyptians, Kenyans, Yemenis, Argentinians, Iraqis and Afghans (among others), they were court-marshalled. For military leaders to complain about people who don’t like foreigners trying to steal their image is like Arsenal complaining about their proud traditions being hijacked by extremists who really like kicking footballs around in a field. They’re basically saying “we didn’t slaughter thousands and thousands of poorly-armed brown conscripts so you lot could go around being horrible to people from other races.”
An abridged version of this report is published in Freedom to coincide with the London Anarchist Bookfair. The report covers a year’s activities up to October 2009.
An anti-NATO organising committee is organising a mass anti-militarist demonstration in Edinburgh on Friday 13th November 2009 to coincide with start of a meeting of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly there on…
One of the Nazis who participated in the killing of Björn Söderberg was Hampus Hellekant, notorious in surveying leftist activists, journalists and others that he perceived as his opponents. Since his release from prison he has changed his name and, according to himself also his politics. But, as the Research Group reveals in this weeks’ issue of Arbetaren, he has never stopped his activities, he has never stopped his monitoring.
A documentary on Channel 4 television tonight – The Enemy Within – made spurious connections between anarchist ideas and Islamic extremism, comparing the 7/7 London bombings with the activities of a minority of the ‘propaganda by deed’ anarchists, the type who threw bombs into cafés and crowds in the late-nineteenth century.
London Anarchist Bookfair 2009 Saturday 24th October 2009, 10am-7pm The venue for this year’s London Anarchist Bookfair is the same as for the last two…
Various anti-authoritarian and critical leftist groups and individuals in Venezuela converged in the Insurgentes social centre to prepare the following statement on the exhumation of victims of the Caracazo in Venezuela
After 19 years the Venezuelan government, through the Attorney General’s Office, has exhumed remains from the mass grave at La Peste in the Southern General Cemetery in Caracas for a second time, where some of the victims of the Caracazo, which happened during the 27th and 28th February 1989, are buried. Thus, the Venezuelan state complies with a ruling of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights which in November 1999 ruled to investigate the facts, to punish those responsible and to locate, exhume and identify the remains of the victims so that they could be delivered to their families, as well as to compensate those families for the violation of their relatives’ right to life.
THE WAR IN AFGHANISTAN. What are we fighting for? Migrant camp in Calais, Workplace round-up (Royal Mail strikes; anti-racism strike in Black Country; PFI hospitals victory; National Grid workers in Newcastle and Northampton; Refuse workers in Leeds), English Defence League tour, Carlos anti-fascist murder trial, Nepalese Maoist strike ban, DSEI arms fair, ESOL, London Anarchist Bookfair, and more.
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Please make every effort to participate the following demonstration called by the Solidarity Federation and supported by the Anarchist Federation. The demo is for comrades of the Anarcho-Syndicalist Initiative (ASI) in Serbia and others, including the General Secretary of the International Workers Association, who have been arrested and detained in Serbia on completely spurious charges of ‘international terrorism’.
Following the first demonstration on 11th Sept, another picket of the London Embassy of Serbia and Montenegro is called for Monday 28th September, 12-2pm. The Embassy is at 28 Belgrave Square, London, SW1X 8QB, nearest stations Victoria, Hyde Park Corner and Knightsbridge. Called by Solidarity Federation (the UK IWA section) in support of the ASI comrades repressed by the Serbian state. Please bring banners, placards and black and red flags.
Anarchist Federation (London) are holding a social at Freedom Bookshop, Angel Alley, 84b Whitechapel High Street, E1 (nearest tube Aldgate East) on Sunday 27th September…
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