Flashback: 1 May 2007: Operation Achilles – SHAC under attack
On this day exactly 10 years ago, a massive police operation codenamed Operation Achilles was launched at dawn against campaigners trying to close down Huntingdon […]
Vivisection
AR prisoner Debbie Vincent due for release next month
Infiltration of political and protest groups is sometimes spoken about as an historical phenomenon. The Pitchford Inquiry covers spycops from 1968 to 2010 but that […]
Free Sven and Natasha – campaign update
For most of us, the campaign against Huntingdon Life Sciences is a piece of history. After trying for 15 years to close down this notorious […]
Friday 2 December: protest against cruel and misleading animal experiments at University College London
On Friday 2 December the Animal Justice Project is holding a demonstration against vivisection at University College London. UCL is the third largest user 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 […]
Black Flag magazine gives space to animal rights
It is unusual for anarchist publications, especially class struggle ones, to give coverage to animal rights. Black Flag, however, has done just that in its […]
Why Labour can’t be trusted: 2) animal protection
This article was originally written days before the 2015 general election to accompany a similar one on Labour and the working class. Due to technical […]
Flashback: 9 May 2006 – Operation Tornado: anti-vivisection campaigners under attack
On 9 May 2006 a series of dawn raids which took place at nine homes in Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Shropshire, the West Midlands and Gloucestershire led […]
Matt Rayner and me protesting against Boots: the story behind the photo
Photos of me from the nineties, especially on protests such as this, are as rare as hen’s teeth. Taken 24 years ago on World Lab […]
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 […]
Which side are they on?
Shami Chakrabarti is known to most people as the director of Liberty, the civil rights organization. She has never stood as an MP but imagine […]
That was World Week that was
World Week of Action For Animals in Laboratories finished yesterday, 26 April. The wwaail.org website listed a number of events, most of them in the […]
Flashback: 25 April 1992 – the biggest anti-vivisection demo ever
On this day 23 years ago, thousands of people marched through central London to mark World Day for Laboratory Animals (WDLA). The event was organised […]
Green Party turns to dead activist to win votes from Labour
Several months ago an analysis I made of Barry Horne’s hunger strikes was severely criticised in certain quarters. You can find it by clicking on […]
20-26 April: World Week for Animals in Laboratories
WWAIL is calling for a global grassroots week of action from 20-26 April 2015 in keeping with the traditional remembrance of laboratory animals that has […]
Another scientific “breakthrough”: GM cows resistant to TB!
It’s been reported in the Guardian that GM cattle have been created in in China that are either resistant to bovine TB or have suffered […]
New animal rights group in the UK
A new grassroots animal rights group was launched today. It’s called the Animal Justice Project and its founding statement says it “is an international, non-profit […]
Flashback: 14 February 1982 – ALF’s Operation Valentine Raid
Exactly 33 years ago today one of the most famous raids in ALF history took place at Life Science Research (LSR) in Essex. Over 100 […]
14 February: British Heartless Foundation Day of Action
A well probed theme of this blog has been the decline of effective grassroots anti-vivisection organising in the last 10 years. Repression, low morale and […]
Flashback: 20 January 2001 – HLS saved from the brink
The first in a new series of posts which look back at past events on a particular day. 14 years ago today the notorious Huntingdon Life […]