London Newswire Archive

25-07-2006 16:29

The Welfare Reform Bill: A move to a 21st Century version of the Workhouse?

The government is targeting millions of disabled people with the threat of losing up to 30 pounds per week if the claimant does not comply with their plans. The proposed replacement to Incapacity Benefit (IB), the Employment Support Allowance (ESA), will only rise above £56 a week (JSA levels) if the claimant meets very strict requirements. Read more >>

25-07-2006 15:46 | 1 comment

film of yesterday's SOCPA arrest and assault

despite an unidentified police officer trying to stop me filming, here is footage of the assault yesterday outside downing street. highlighted once more is the continuing metropolitan police policy of violence against people who's only crime is holding a placard peacefully. an officer also ignore repeated requests to identify herself. Read more >>

25-07-2006 14:05 | 1 addition

RESISTANCE (July/Aug 2006) - anarchist bulletin from AF (Britain)

THE ANARCHIST FEDERATION'S agitational bulletin Resistance no.86 is out.
IN THIS ISSUE: Trade union strikes, John Reid new Home Secretary, Armchair cops, Left-wing in South America, Russia G8, ASDA depot action, Jerry Springer Opera, General Strike 1926, plus the usual activist's events diary, industrial frontline news. Read too PDF:

http://www.libcom.org/hosted/af/res/ Read more >>

25-07-2006 10:29

Meeting, Wednesday 26th July, 2006: 'Keep Our NHS Public'

The joint 'Keep Our NHS Public' meeting last week was a very well-attended and positive one, with campaigners present from across London.
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25-07-2006 06:51 | 2 comments

Attorney General Ruddock is Oddball over anti-terrorist laws!

Attorney General Ruddock attacks different laws. Read more >>

25-07-2006 03:07 | 1 addition | 4 comments

SOCPA - a stench of lies and corruption from the met and charing cross

i went to cover the gently amusing 'multiple lone demonstrations' (15 of them) organised by mark thomas in parliament square this evening (

http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/07/345974.html), but one story or action after another left me disgusted by the end of the evening. Read more >>

25-07-2006 01:35 | 1 addition

SOCPA - mark thomas' lone demonstration with 14 others

radical comedy activist mark thomas and the others notified charing cross last week of their intention to hold a range of individual demonstrations requiring authorisation to be held this evening at 5.30 in parliament square. charing cross photocopier worked overtime to process most of the applications and tie up the met in bureaucratic bollocks. Read more >>

25-07-2006 00:59 | 1 comment

Symbolic Die-in and Collective Scream Against War - London 25th July

In the face of the official "no-comment," come and raise your voice and lend your
body in response to the killings in the Middle East. See also urgent appeal for financial support below.
Read more >>

24-07-2006 19:07 | 10 comments

NOTTING HILL HOUSING TRUST MISMANAGEMENT

NOTTING HILL HOUSING TRUST:
IS IT NOT CORRUPT?
IS IT NOT THE BIGGEST HOUSING SCANDAL IN THE UK TODAY?
IS IT NOT THE GREATEST ABUSE OF TAXPAYERS MONEY TODAY?
IS IT NOT THE GREATEST THREAT TO OUR DEMOCRACY TODAY?
IS IT NOT TIME TO CLOSE IT DOWN? Read more >>

24-07-2006 16:54 | 2 comments

urgent call to help resist eviction- titnore woods in court on thursday

the camp in titnore woods near worthing (near brighton) is sending out an urgent call-out for people to come and resist eviction. Read more >>

24-07-2006 16:22

Titnore Woods - court papers served this morning (Mon)

Hearing this Thursday, 27th July at 11.30am, with eviction expected immediately after. Read more >>

24-07-2006 16:13 | 1 comment

1984 Screening @ Everything 4 Everyone

This weeks E4e cinema screening at Everything4Everyone (also know as Dalston theatre), will be 1984, the film adapatation of the classic George Orwell novel. Read more >>

23-07-2006 18:10 | 7 comments

Another Wasted Opportunity

Having left the pub and rushed across town to Trafalgar Square it was disappointing to find only one person waiting around looking slightly bored. So including the person I'd been drinking with that made a dispiriting three of us. Read more >>

23-07-2006 17:48 | 4 comments

London demo in solidarity with Lebanese and Palestinians.

Considering the short notice (less than one week) the demo was impressively large. Thousands came from all over the country to enjoy the heat-wave in Britain’s most polluted city and protest about the slaughter in Lebanon. Fortunately for everyone the weatherman had lied and it rained from early on in the demo till just before the end. Having been cooked here for over a week it has to be said that the rain was lovely.

Difficult to say how many came there were other regional mobilizations around the country. Definitely over ten thousand. Read more >>

23-07-2006 17:07

The ever popular US Embassy.

The demo was unsurprisingly at its most loud and angry when passing the US Embassy. The blatant way in which Bush and his chums are siding with Israel at present demonstrates yet more hypocrisy and double standards in the so called ‘war on terror’. Read more >>

23-07-2006 14:53

jean charles de menezes - solidarity in stockwell

despite 'news' on bbc radio in london that this later 'unofficial' solidarity vigil had been cancelled, about 120 people gathered at Stockwell Tube last night, with Caporeira and an open mike. Read more >>

23-07-2006 13:59 | 1 addition | 1 comment

Round up of July 22nd Lebanon solidarity protests

This is a round up of 7 different reports with photos from the day of solidarity for Lebanon on Saturday July 22nd 2006. Read more >>

23-07-2006 01:02 | 1 addition | 9 comments

photos and short report london lebanon demo 22/7

7 - 30,000 protestors, depending on who you believe, marched from whitehall to hyde park today. then they went home Read more >>

23-07-2006 00:26 | 1 addition

Vigil for Jean Charles de Menezes

Approximately 50 supporters gathered this morning at Stockwell Tube station to mark the first anniversary of the murder of Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes by the British security forces. Read more >>

22-07-2006 22:11 | 1 addition | 26 comments

London erupts in mass protest against Israeli crimes.

Around 10,000 people of conscience marched through central London today in fierce opposition to Israel’s mass slaughter of the Lebanese and Palestinian people and the British government’s complicity. Read more >>