Flashback: 30 November 1989 – journalist in fur coat receives “torrent of abuse”
27 years ago today Daily Express journalist Annie Leask decided to wear a full length fur coat on the streets of London to test what the […]
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 […]
A new and exciting website: Animal Liberation Currents
A new website has recently been launched called Animal Liberation Currents. It’s first page issues an inspiring call to arms (see below). There are also […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
My all time favourite political records.
To me politics and music have always been inseparable. My interest in radical politics came about at the same time as I started listening to […]
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 […]
1993: the year the Grand National was sabotaged – with help from Special Branch
Yesterday about 100 people demonstrated near the entrance of the Grand National against the cruelty of horse racing. Good though this turnout was – and not […]
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 […]