Out with the old, in with the new…
The turning of one year into another usually leads to the casting of one’s mind back over the previous 12 months and to looking forward as well. Eight […]
Animal liberation
Review of Dysophia open letter #3: from animals to anarchism
Dysophia is a Leeds-based publisher of green anarchist pamphlets and other materials similar to this blog, that is to use anarchism as “a powerful tool for analysing much of the […]
Corporate Watch needs our support
Corporate Watch has been one of the few organizations to acknowledge and publicise the repression suffered by animal rights campaigners. While other bastions of the […]
Labour and circus animals – hypocrisy and lies!
Five months to go to the general election when as good citizens we’ll be asked to put an X on a piece of paper and […]
Hunting Act: 10 years old on 18th November and nobody noticed
Did you know the Hunting Act was 10 years old on Tuesday? I’m usually good with dates but it passed me by completely until I […]
Demythologizing Barry Horne
Barry Horne died in prison on 5 November 2001, while serving an 18 year sentence for arson against companies involved in animal abuse. It is still the longest sentence […]
Saturday 18 October – London rocks to the revolutionary beat!!
There promises to be a hive of radical activity in London this weekend. Saturday the 18th will see the one and only London Anarchist Bookfair […]
Sentencing of the SOCPA 7
The activists known as the SOCPA7 were sentenced on Friday 10 October for campaigning against animal testing and Huntingdon Life Sciences. A peaceful protest was held […]
A tribute to Loukanikous, the legendary Greek riot dog
As revolutionaries we occasionally wish non-human animals could rise up and fight for themselves. Loukanikous was a dog who did just that. He was a legend […]
SOCPA7 solidarity court protest on Friday 10 October
This Friday, 10th October, the SOCPA7 will be sentenced at Southwark Crown Court, 1 English Grounds (off Battlebridge Lane), Southwark, London SE1 2HU. They are compassionate […]
McVeganism – new paradigm shift or same old sell out?
It has been reported that McDonald’s restaurants in Austria are introducing a vegan burger, a veggie burger and vegan “chicken” McNuggets. Apparently this is due […]
The Talon Conspiracy – a unique online archive
Would you like to know more about the history of the animal liberation / radical environmental / green anarchist movements? Heard about magazines such as […]
Cull Tories, not badgers
The second badger cull is now 14 days old. Not content with the fiasco that occurred in Somerset and Gloucestershire last year and the widespread […]
Freedom Press – still going strong
Freedom Press is the oldest anarchist publisher in the UK and perhaps the world. Based in Angel Alley, Whitechapel, London E1, it was founded in […]
SOCPA 7 meetings this week
In 2012-2013 seven people were raided, arrested and charged for conspiracy to commit SOCPA 145 & 146, two laws introduced in 2005 against anti-vivisection campaigners […]
Hunt saboteur seriously injured in Somerset
The hunting season is only a few days old and already a hunt saboteur is in hospital with serious injuries. On 28 August, 2014 the Blackmore […]
The end of SHAC and what we can learn from it
A couple of weeks ago the demise of Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC) was announced on its website. The news slipped out unobtrusively, without any […]
Maggie and Big Mac – a match made in McHeaven
We all know there’s an obesity epidemic: you can hardly read a newspaper or turn on the tv without being told some mid numbing statistic such […]
The state we are in: World Day for Animals in Laboratories 2014
World Day for Animals in Laboratories took place in Nottingham on Saturday 26 April. About 500 people gathered with banners, stalls, chatting to each other, […]