London Repression Newswire Archive

07-05-2008 16:07

Public meeting with delegation of Colombian social movements

at Amnesty International UK's Human Rights Action Centre, 17-25 New Inn Yard, London Read more >>

07-05-2008 14:31

Victory Against Trade Union Repression In Lambeth

Lambeth Council has been forced to back down from their plan to ban the Trade Union UNISON from their staff conference for workers in the Regeneration and Housing department, which takes place on 6 and 8 May 2008 at the Oval Conference Centre. Read more >>

06-05-2008 11:44

SOCPA - hospital interview with brian haw

audio interview with brian haw late last night at accident&emergency st thomas hospital after he was attacked in parliament square yesterday by police and held for more than six hours for an alleged public order offence. Read more >>

05-05-2008 17:05 | 3 additions

SOCPA - brian haw arrested in parliament square

brian was arrested early this afternoon Read more >>

05-05-2008 12:27

London mayoral elections: Labour’s neo-cons and the left apologists for Livingst

Writing in the Guardian, Seumas Milne argued, “A defeat for Livingstone would not just be a blow to the broadly defined left, working-class Londoners, women, ethnic minorities and greens. It would represent a wider defeat for progressive politics, in Britain and beyond.” Read more >>

03-05-2008 15:17

London Olympics terror threat used to vastly increase surveillance powers

The threat of terrorism at the 2012 London Olympics is being hyped up in order to justify a vast increase in the surveillance powers of the British state. Read more >>

03-05-2008 15:06 | 1 addition

Brian and Barbara attacked in Parliament Square

The attacks took place late last night with police and CCTV looking on. Read more >>

03-05-2008 11:46 | 3 additions

Boris - A Taste of Things to Come

Class war is well and truly back on the streets of London after the Home Counties elected bumbling toff Boris Johnson to become Mayor.

Demonstrators outside city hall were met with TSG and FIT Teams who took it upon themselves to protect the BNP and force legal protest off the streets. Read more >>

03-05-2008 10:05

Dale Farm travellers unveil new Community Centre

Travellers at the Crays Hill (Dale Farm) traveller site will today unveil a new £12,000 county council-funded community centre at a special launch event on Saturday. Read more >>

03-05-2008 01:17

Hammersmith Goldhawk Road get Total Oil out of Burma protest

Six protestors demonstrated at the Raven Total station on 372 Goldhawk Road, Hammersmith, 30th April. They called on the French oil company to stop funding the military dictatorship with 500 million dollars a year. Total has long been an accomplice of the corrupt junta's theft of Burma's resources, funding their brutal oppression of the Burmese people and the genocide of ethnic minorities. Total's pipeline was built with slave labour.
Read more >>

02-05-2008 20:09

Kurdish protest at the Syrian Embassy in London

About 50 Kurds gathered at the Syrian embassy in London yesterday (Thursday, May 1st) to commemorate the forty-day anniversary of the killing of 3 Kurdish men at the hands of the Syrian security forces in the northern town of Qamishli while holding a street party to celebrate Newroz on March 20th. Protesters held up Kurdish flags and shouted anti-Syrian government slogans, while being penned in by the Met. The designated protest area was also 'shifted' down the road a little so protesters found themselves facing the Venezuelan embassy instead of the Syrian! Read more >>

02-05-2008 12:53

Video of May Fayre in Mayfair, London.

Mayday celebrations have a very long history of social disobedience countered by State repression.

Video:

http://www.archive.org/details/mayday2008 Read more >>

30-04-2008 12:23

Lambeth Council bans Trade Union from Staff Conference

Lambeth’s Labour-led Council has sunk to new depths by refusing the trade union UNISON, which represents more than 2,000 council staff, a stall at its conference for staff in the Regeneration and Housing Department on 6th and 8th May 2008. Read more >>

29-04-2008 12:03 | 1 addition

The Tumbledown Dick

The Tumbledown Dick, an old pub, an old coaching inn in Farnborough, faces an uncertain future as it has closed down and been boarded up.
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27-04-2008 07:35 | 2 additions

London Critical Mass 14th Anniversary ride.

Early in the ride police blocked the front at traffic lights and prevented movement, even when the lights were green. This is a familiar tactic which is done to compress the ride into as small a space as possible, with officers and a van at the back hassling stragglers to keep up, which slows things down and holds up traffic as well as making cycling difficult. Read more >>

26-04-2008 02:38

Kilburn protest against Total in Burma

Six protesters demonstrated at Kilburn Total station, 409 Kilburn High Rd on Wednesday 23rd April. They called on the French oil company to stop funding the military dictatorship in Burma with 500 million dollars a year, fuelling the brutal regime's oppression in Burma. The foreign currency provided by Total enables the regime to buy weapons used to persecute the Burmese people and ethnic minorities.
Read more >>

23-04-2008 17:19

Public Demonstration Italian Embassy

This release is to let you know that on the 25th April a demonstration will be held in support of a larger public demonstration, which is taking place in Italy on the same day across hundreds of piazzas. Our group endorses and supports Beppe Grillo’s proposals regarding the re-establishment of a rule-of-law and transparency in our Country Read more >>

23-04-2008 15:43

Benefit for direct action @ rampART 25 April - hip hop, dubstep, afro beat funk

THE PEOPLES ARMY Makes a one off mission to East London, Friday 25th April - 9pm-6am
@ rampART, 15 Rampart Street, London E1 2LA (near Whitechapel, off Commercial Rd)
- The Speakers Corner family & The Peoples Army host an all night session of Live Hip Hop, Live Afro Beat Funk, Reggae & Late night Dubstep.
Read more >>

23-04-2008 09:47

More than a game: Scientology's policy of intimidation

"ENEMY — SP Order. Fair game. May be deprived of property or injured by any means by any Scientologist without any discipline of the Scientologist. May be tricked, sued or lied to or destroyed."
- L Ron Hubbard, HCOPL 18 October 67 Issue IV, Penalties for Lower Conditions

Every time we talk to a critic of Scientology you within hours come up and say "That's an extortionist, that's a sexual pervert." It's as if you are terrified of anyone criticising your organisation. It's as if there's something that you've got to hide.
- BBC Reporter John Sweeney to Church of Scientology spokesman Tommy Davis, "Panorama: Scientology and Me" Read more >>

21-04-2008 15:38

Farnborough town centre in its final death throes

Farnborough town centre is now little more than a ghost town, a once viable town centre destroyed by a greedy developer, with more than a little help from friends on the local council. Read more >>