London Newswire Archive

02-05-2008 21:09

Kurdish protest at the Syrian Embassy in London

About 50 Kurds gathered at the Syrian embassy in London yesterday (Thursday, May 1st) to commemorate the forty-day anniversary of the killing of 3 Kurdish men at the hands of the Syrian security forces in the northern town of Qamishli while holding a street party to celebrate Newroz on March 20th. Protesters held up Kurdish flags and shouted anti-Syrian government slogans, while being penned in by the Met. The designated protest area was also 'shifted' down the road a little so protesters found themselves facing the Venezuelan embassy instead of the Syrian! Read more >>

02-05-2008 21:00

Bolivia: An acid test

The conspiracy to divide Bolivia must be denounced Read more >>

02-05-2008 18:30

“The first May Fayre in Mayfair for 300 years.”

Cross-dressing 18th century lords and ladies gather to reinstate the celebration of the May Fayre in central London. Police couldn't help but tap their feet... Read more >>

02-05-2008 16:13

Dissident Island - Coming from our new home

Nice little show for tonight, plus we're very excited to be coming at you out our new home in the (yet to be named) Shoreditch social centre Read more >>

02-05-2008 16:08

International Socialist Resistance & Youth Against Racism protest call

ISR & YRE call for a protest outside of City Hall tomorrow, 3rd May, should the BNP win a seat on the London Assembly. Read more >>

02-05-2008 13:53

Video of May Fayre in Mayfair, London.

Mayday celebrations have a very long history of social disobedience countered by State repression.

Video:

http://www.archive.org/details/mayday2008 Read more >>

02-05-2008 12:14

InfoUsurpa Guide & Offline News

London Indymedia Offline and InfoUsurpa are published together every two weeks in a 4-page sheet. This edition covers the first 2 weeks of May... Read more >>

01-05-2008 18:22 | 2 additions

Sucessful street party, London. (sent by mobile)

The Space Hijackers Mayday street party is being held in Shepherd Market, Mayfair. Read more >>

01-05-2008 16:27

How Ken Livingstone joined racists against Asian parents in Newham in 1992

Why did BBC NEWSNIGHT allow Ken Livingstone to lie again ?
[NEWSNIGHT Wednesday 30 April 2008]. Read more >>

30-04-2008 16:14

St Modwen set to invade East London - 18 storey tower block planned

Rapacious (re)developer St Modwen, having attempted to destroy Queens Market in east London already, and having sunk its teeth into Farnborough, is now set to invade Walthamstow, east London. Read more >>

30-04-2008 16:05

Mayday Meeting Point - 1708 revisited

Come and join us for a celebration and re-enactment of the state's oppression of the traditional May Fayre in Mayfair. A collaboration between Space Hijackers and The Metropolitan Police Players....

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30-04-2008 15:21

Anti-BNP demo @ London Mayoral election result

Demonstration against the BNP at the London Mayoral election result
Friday 2nd May
6pm - City Hall Read more >>

30-04-2008 13:23

Lambeth Council bans Trade Union from Staff Conference

Lambeth’s Labour-led Council has sunk to new depths by refusing the trade union UNISON, which represents more than 2,000 council staff, a stall at its conference for staff in the Regeneration and Housing Department on 6th and 8th May 2008. Read more >>

30-04-2008 10:48 | 1 addition

Revolting London: We're getting closer

On Friday May 2nd people will gather at City Hall in London to vent their anger at the "democratic" process of electing representatives. This country is not democratic, representation every four years is rubbing stamping within confined limits the political institutions of capitalism. Lets get down to City Hall on May 2nd - and bring friends! Read more >>

29-04-2008 16:20

April's Critical Mass:Report

Short Report of Critical Mass April 2008 Read more >>

29-04-2008 15:18

Support the Iraqi Resistance: Resist Honour Killings!

This is what Western Troops are maintaining in Iraq, with the full blessing of the Labour Government! We would ask that people circulate this article around to everybody you know and urge that action is taken against the British Governments silence over Honour Killings! Read more >>

29-04-2008 13:03 | 1 addition

The Tumbledown Dick

The Tumbledown Dick, an old pub, an old coaching inn in Farnborough, faces an uncertain future as it has closed down and been boarded up.
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29-04-2008 12:33 | 1 addition

BNP Mayoral candidate's wife is Met copper!

Richard Barnbrook 's wife is a serving Met Police officer. That explains how he was at the front of the Bobby March in London Read more >>

29-04-2008 11:56

Street Blitz London, 1-15 May 2008

After a moderately successful first run last July the fortnight of street-art returns to London. The concept is simple but potentially very effective and by utilising the power of the Internet (and benefiting from a growing common ‘net literacy amongst the great unwashed) it opens up the whole city as a gallery space; and not confining it to internal, controlled and possibly inaccessible spaces. Read more >>