London Newswire Archive

08-10-2007 09:49 | 1 addition

Plane Stupid / Manchester Climate Action blockade Manchester domestic terminal

Activists from Manchester Climate Action and Manchester Plane Stupid have blockaded the security check-in of terminal 3 of Manchester Airport. Read more >>

08-10-2007 07:48

The Plight of Myanmar’s People: Challenges and Responsibilities for the Internat

By Christopher B. Roberts
Research Associate - S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS)

Republished from:

http://bbwob.blogspot.com/2007/10/plight-of-myanmars-people-challenges.html Read more >>

08-10-2007 00:38 | 1 addition

SOCPA - brian haw's protest site is now reminiscent of his glory days

thanks to ken livingstone's apparently illegal fencing round the grass at parliament square, (all my enquiries to the mayor's office are met with obfuscation and silence), some of brian's supporters have taken the opportunity to find a place to hang all the banners they keep being given Read more >>

07-10-2007 23:47

short film of today's poppy seed guerilla gardening at the ministry

this is a short film of today's action
full report and some pics at

http://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/10/383027.html Read more >>

07-10-2007 23:40

police overtime scam at afghan protest today?

in a remarkable display of over-policing, 8 cops, 4 forward intelligence, a van, and a rangerover accompanied a peaceful inter-denominational walk through the streets of london. the walk was more of a vigil than anything else, to mark the 6th anniversary of our invasion of afghanistan. after five hours overtime, the police headed off and completely missed the security breach at the ministry of defence that happened shortly after Read more >>

07-10-2007 23:07 | 1 addition

London Burma Protest

Saturday 6 October 2007, 10,000 people marched in solidarity with the peace protestors and monks of Burma. Read more >>

07-10-2007 19:54

poppy protest outside ministry of defence this afternoon - lax security

earlier today, there was a peaceful walk by activists calling for the withdrawal of troops from afghanistan (report here later). 12 police followed and filmed the 22 peaceful protestors for nearly five hours. later outside the MOD, opposite downing street, four urban gargeners dug the earth and planted poppy seeds. they remained unnoticed in the 'government security zone'. Read more >>

07-10-2007 19:06

Put The FIT Team On Trial - Call for solidarity and resistance

9th October, Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court, 9am Read more >>

07-10-2007 19:01

That Damned Marx

No matter what they say, the bourgeois cannot escape the fact that Marx's ideas still hold water after all these years. His analysis of the capitalist system, its laws and contradictions are as relevant today as they were 150 years ago. The serious journals of capitalism confirm this. Read more >>

07-10-2007 04:46

Corporate publishing houses

For all the bad press that they receive, a lot of people still believe that Western corporations are making some sort of contribution to improving the lot of people in the third world. Let me present a counter-example.

07-10-2007 04:44

Boycott for Burma: targets

Call from 88-generation Burmese resistance groups. Read more >>

07-10-2007 02:50

Pictures from the Burma march in London

Saturday's London march for Burma from Tate Britain to Trafalgar sq Read more >>

06-10-2007 21:53

Ubiquitous Surveillance: Mayor Bloomberg's New Clothes

New York City, London, Beijing: what do they have in common? surveillance cameras Read more >>

06-10-2007 18:10

London march for Burma October 6,2007

it's a slide show Read more >>

06-10-2007 12:32 | 2 additions

Prepare now for emergency protests! Free Mumia Abu-Jamal!

Free Mumia Abu-Jamal! Prepare now for emergency protest at the US Embassy in London!

Mumia Abu-Jamal is a former Black Panther Party spokesman, supporter of the MOVE
organisation and an award-winning journalist known as the “voice of the voiceless”. He was
framed up in 1982 on false charges of killing a Philadelphia police officer. Sentenced to death
based on his political history and beliefs, Mumia has spent 25 years on death row for a crime
he did not commit.

See below, contact the PDC or visit www.partisandefense.org for more information.
Read more >>

06-10-2007 07:41

Police ban London antiwar march

The Metropolitan Police have banned a demonstration by the Stop the War Coalition in central London. Police spokesmen have indicated that this is in response to pressure from the Labour government of Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Read more >>

06-10-2007 01:35 | 1 addition

BA fly you to death

Yesterday Friday 5th October we picketed the London Eye, owned by British Aiways: we got a lot of harassment from private security; two police with machine guns passed by but they weren't interested in us. Read more >>

05-10-2007 23:51

East London Muslims Caged Guantanamo-Style

Two British Muslims are locked-up in a cage, chained and hooded for 6 days and nights without basic amenities and comfort in a busy traffic junction corner on the Whitechapel Road (East London) ... Read more >>