Hundreds join UK Uncut's Downing Street Dole Queue to tell George Osborne that 'Austerity Isn't Working'
Nearly 400 UK Uncut protestors gathered to form a 'dole queue' outside Downing St today to highlight soaring unemployment under the government's austerity programme. Unemployed people from across London came…
UK Uncut to form 'dole queue' outside Downing Street to highlight soaring unemployment
Hundreds of people will gather to form a 'dole queue' outside Downing St at 11am on Budget Day, Wed 21st March to highlight soaring unemployment under the government's austerity programme.…
Fortnum and Mason trial B: the farce rolls on
Westminster Magistrates Court, 12 March, 2012: Fortnum and Mason trial B. You can read my write up of 'trial A' from November. By the time I arrived at the Westminster…
Starmer Drama: DPP’s Today programme announcement shows that the CPS are not even following their bizarre new guidelines
By one of the Fortnum & Mason arrestees These days, I’m all too used to being woken up by the sound of my own voice shouting at the radio. This…
A call for a Tenants' Movement
Housing is one of the defining issues of our generation. Not only have sub-prime mortgages triggered a financial crisis that has led to high unemployment and austerity measures, but it's…
The real silent majority
NUS conference is coming up. Motions are being; drafted, circulated, proposed and seconded all the across the country. However, soon many of these excellent motions will fall foul of the…
Not Guilty: Bauer bridge protest case collapses
The case against Edd Bauer, Simon Furse, and Daniel Lindley - the student activists accused of traffic offenses after a banner drop - collapsed in court today. Bauer had spent…
Social media and the building of a radical clique
Over Christmas, I danced reels in the Airlie Village Hall with people I've known for longer than I can remember. I had my mobile phone in my sporran. After some…
Calling all students, restore the right to protest.
Whatever differences of our oft dysfunctional, sometime self-destructive student “left” may have, it is nice to know that we also know exactly when it is time to unite and fight.…
University of Birmingham students declare "I am Spartacus"
Today Birmingham students showed defiance against a repressive university. In response to a student being singled out and disciplined for taking part in an occupation of an unused university building…