We must make EDF regret their choice to sue activists
The powerful win not by convincing the people, but by removing our tools for organising. Mrs Thatcher’s great victory was not her privatisations. It was not her cuts, and it was not the sinking of the...
View ArticleWhat does UEA have against protesters?
By Elliot Folan Earlier this month, the University of East Anglia dropped a disciplinary case against two students for taking part in an anti-tax avoidance protest. I was one of those students, and...
View Articlemicro-managing the Arab Spring: on NGOs, management, movements, and social...
This is an excerpt from “Anarchists in the board room – how social movements and social media can help your organisation be more like people”, by Liam Barrington-Bush. Liam is currently running a...
View ArticleBedroom Tax Song: You cannae have a spare room in a pokey cooncil flat
In an updated version of the classic Glaswegian protest piece the ‘jeely piece song’, ‘Citizen Smart’ has launched this wonderful Bedroom Tax protest song. The original version was written to protest...
View ArticleUK Uncut stages bedroom tax protests at Lord Freud and Iain Duncan Smith’s...
Hundreds of people are protesting over the bedroom tax and benefits cap at Lord Freud’s £1.9million home and 20 disabled activists are staging a protest at Iain Duncan Smith’s country mansion in...
View ArticleChanges in NUS rules have damaged the student movement
A tail of how the dry business of democratic structures can be used to limit debate, and what this means for the progressive left in the student movement – by Tim Cobbett When I was involved in the...
View ArticleLecturers and university staff in first UK-wide joint strike over pay
This piece originally appeared in Nouse, the University of York’s student newspaper. Thousands of lecturers and non-academic staff will go on strike over pay on Thursday 31st October, after members of...
View ArticleSolidarity Beyond the Picket Line: Notes on the HE strike
On Thursday 31st October I am going on strike for the first time in my life. I’m not a lecturer or a researcher but for the past seven years I’ve worked in a university, and I’m one of the thousands...
View Article9 Thoughts on Left Unity and its Founding Conference
Saturday saw the launch of a new left-wing political party in Britain – Left Unity. I won’t attempt to report on it, as I wasn’t there (nor did I want especially want to be). I just want to lay down a...
View ArticleHong Kong is Occupied – but what comes next?
Hong Kong, with its gleaming skyscrapers and an economy relatively unscathed by the 2008 global crash, is the poster boy of free market capitalism. Since its handover back to its birth parent China in...
View Article‘Invite the Greens’ petition hits 200,000 signatures
The petition demanding the major broadcasters invite the Greens onto the 2010 General Election debates has now reached over 200,000 signatures. It hit the 200k mark this afternoon, piling further...
View ArticleWe must make EDF regret their choice to sue activists
The powerful win not by convincing the people, but by removing our tools for organising. Mrs Thatcher’s great victory was not her privatisations. It was not her cuts, and it was not the sinking of the...
View ArticleFrom splendid isolation to solidarity – a tale of divestiture
#truth at #tli pic.twitter.com/rWx2JlYuMm — Resource Generation (@ResourceGen) July 11, 2014 In finance and economics, divestment or divestiture is the reduction of some kind of asset for financial,...
View ArticleActivists to hand-in 260,000-strong #InviteTheGreens petition
The exclusion of the Green Party by the major broadcasters – including the BBC – has angered many. Picture credit: Green Fist Greens are set to hand in the petition demanding the party is invited onto...
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