Nottingham City NHS and the cuts – a healthworker speaks out
10 November 2010Posted by AFed
Nottingham City NHS and the cuts – a healthworker speaks out
Source: Notts Black Arrow – Nottingham & Nottinghamshire AF group’s blog
The below is something a member of Nottingham AF wrote for the Notts SOS blog giving an outline of what is happening locally within his workplace, the local NHS community healthcare services.
A Nottingham NHS worker speaks frankly about his, his workmates’, and his family and friends’ situations under the continuing threat of cuts that will no doubt be familiar to many others, and urges everyone to get involved with Notts SOS.
I work in one of the support services within the Nottingham NHS Citihealth organisation. We provide community health services to the Nottingham area. We have heard the current government promise to ring fence frontline health spending, however the reality on the ground is somewhat different.
Anarchist Student issue 1 September 2010
16 September 2010Posted by AFed
ANARCHIST STUDENT issue 1, SEPTEMBER 2010 is out. First Bulletin of the Anarchist Federation Student Network. Featuring articles on cuts in HE, lessons from the Sussex Against Cuts campaign, postgraduate study, setting up your own anarchist cinema project and a complete guide to the student Left. If you are an anarchist currently in full-time education and would like to find out more about the AF please get in touch – student
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Hackney Pride Speech
6 September 2010Posted by AFed
A transcript of an amazing speech given at Hackney Pride by Jamrat Mason.
Report on Leeds Antifascist Coalition meeting of 3rd July
13 July 2010Posted by AFed
On Sat the 3rd Leeds Anarchist Federation called a meeting for an Antifascist Coalition in Leeds with the intention of discussing the EDL and ideas…
Two new anarchist journals online
1 July 2010Posted by AFed
Two interesting new projects from anarchist groups in Ireland & the USA. First, neighbours Workers Solidarity Movement have a new political magazine, The Irish Anarchist…
Video – Black Flame talk
23 June 2010Posted by AFed
Michael Schmidt, author of Black Flame, at McMaster University; part 1 of 4 from Common Cause on Vimeo.
Crocodile Tears for Gaza
16 June 2010Posted by AFed
This text was originally distributed by Manchester Anarchist Federation as a leaflet on a demonstration in solidarity with Gaza on Sunday 13/6/10
On May 31st in the dead of night, Israeli elite commandos stormed a convoy of ships carrying aid, preventing it from reaching Gaza, killing nine people and injuring dozens in the process. Those on board had wanted to deliver 10,000 tonnes of food, medicine, construction materials, wheelchairs and other aid to Gaza to break a blockade imposed by Israel since 2007 and provide people with access to some basic necessities of life.
The mass of the population in Gaza has a fragile and miserable existence because of the blockade. It has enclosed Gaza and turned it into a prison; a prison which could not be maintained without the Egyptian government keeping their own border crossing firmly closed. While 70% of Gazans live on less than $1 a day, 75% rely on food aid and 60% have no daily access to clean water. They live in poverty while what little remains is daily attacked by the Israeli bombs and bulldozers
The Digital Economy – state control of the internet
15 June 2010Posted by AFed
The Digital Economy. The government’s vision of the internet’s future. This new legislation has been controversial from the outset. Lobbied for by the Recording Industry…
Audio of Sheffield Anarchist Bookfair panel session ‘Anarchism 101’ plus advance notice of Bristol Bookfair
31 May 2010Posted by AFed
Anarchism 101 at Sheffield Anarchist Bookfair Listen to a recording of a panel discussion held at the Sheffield Anarchist Bookfair, entitled ‘Anarchism 101, everything you…
President Chavez is a tool of God
17 May 2010Posted by AFed
This article was originally written by Sergio Lopez for Kosmoprolet, the magazine of the German Friends of the Classless Society group, it first appeared in English in Internationalist Perspective #51, which can be found here. A second article in Internationalist Perspective #53 continues the analysis
A highlight of every child’s birthday party in Venezuela is a piñata, a brightly-coloured paper container filled with candy or toys dangling from a rope. Taking turns the children try to break the piñata with a stick. When it eventually breaks releasing its precious contents all the children jump at it and try to grab as much of it as possible. It goes without saying that the weaker children are intimidated and squeezed out by the stronger ones. Their share depends upon the size of the piñata, the number of children and, ultimately their capability of standing up to the other children. If there were no interference by the parents, several children would go away empty-handed.
How is this related to the Bolivarian process? How does the game continue? And who are the players?
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