15-19 August: Animal Rights Gathering at Earth First! Summer Gathering
This year’s Animal Rights Gathering will again be taking place as a strand within the Earth First! Summer Gathering. It’s five days of grassroots direct […]
Anarchism
7/8 July: 50 years of resistance and campaigning – a celebration of our resilience to state repression
1968-2018: Celebrate 50 years of Resistance, Campaigning & Alternatives for a Better World – despite 50 years of police opposition, spying and repression Sat 7 […]
More anarchist and radical bookfairs than ever before in 2018
Freedomnews.org has just published an article on upcoming anarchist and radical bookfairs for the rest of 2018. Derry has already hosted a successful fair on […]
The Acorn: what is real anarchism?
Winter Oak is a “not-for-profit organisation with a serious aversion to industrial capitalism and a commitment to social justice” that produces an online bulletin called The […]
28 October: London Anarchist Bookfair, Park View School, West Green Road, N15.
The original and biggest of all the @bookfairs is back on Saturday 28 October. Following last year’s successful move to Tottenham, it’s once again taking […]
9-14 August: Animal Liberation Strand at the Earth First! Summer Gathering
The very first Animal Rights Gathering took place at Earthworm Cooperative in 1997. Gatherings then took place sporadically until 2003 when they began happening every […]
9-11 June: Liberation Gathering in Bristol
Liberation! An introduction A gathering aimed at rebuilding and progressing the animal liberation movement. It will be coming from an anarchist perspective and will especially […]
Saturday 10 December: Manchester & Salford Anarchist Bookfair
Back after a two year hiatus, the Manchester & Salford Anarchist Bookfair, sponsored by The Cunningham Amendment, will take place on Saturday 10th December at […]
Whatever happened to the ALF? A look back at 40 years of radical direct action in the UK
This year marks the 40th birthday of the Animal Liberation Front. The ALF is one of the most important direct action organizations of modern times […]
29 October: London Anarchist Bookfair
The Bookfair has moved again and this time it’s in a school in Haringey! It’s also in Tottenham which has a proud history of radicalism […]
Flashback: 29 September 1983 – Stop the City brings chaos to the financial heart of London
On 29 September 1983 the first Stop The City action took place in the City of London, timed to coincide with the quarterly calculation of […]
Labour’s summer of turmoil – should we care?
The momentous EU referendum has cast a long shadow over politics this summer. Those architects of austerity, Cameron and Osborne, have gone from office and […]
Earth First! Gathering: 17-22 August
Doesn’t look like there’s a UK animal rights gathering this year but the EF! Summer Gathering is going ahead in Northants from 17-22 August. Last […]
The EU referendum: should we stay or should we go and does it matter?
What passes for normal bourgeois politics has been put on hold for the past few weeks as the political class gets in a tizzy over […]
On the frontline against vivisection: No New Animal Lab at the University of Washington
World Week for Laboratory Animals is upon us. There are a number of protests and events happening – not least the World Day for Animals […]
Kevin Johnson sentenced to 3 years but due for release in 3 months
The following comes from the supportkevinandtyler.com website: In August of 2013, Kevin Johnson (aka Kevin Olliff) and Tyler Lang were arrested and charged with possession […]
Learning from the Heathrow 13: Reflections on struggle, repression and prison
The following appeared today on the Bristol Anarchist Black Cross website. I usually don’t read something and agree with every word but this superb article […]
Business as usual…
It has been all of five months since I was last here. The blog has returned. That’s not why this post is called Business as […]
Dare to Dream: this was anarchy 1990
Here’s a rare thing: a documentary about anarchism that treats the movement with respect, not as a bunch of terrorists or soppy idealists. In 1990 […]
Animal Farm at 70
George Orwell’s Animal Farm turned 70 years old last week. The story of farm animals overthrowing human oppression and ruling themselves is the classic political fable […]