Police Murder In London
This is no appeal to calm. (more…)
Demonstrate This Wednesday At the Greek Consulate
The Glasgow Anarchist Federation calls for a picket outside the Greek consulate on Wednesday to coincide with our fellow workers general strike in Greece.
Since the cold blooded murder of young Alexandros Grigoropoulos on Saturday Greek cities have been alight with the flames of anger. We cannot allow the Greek state to attempt to stifle this anger by simply arresting the murderous police officers. The entire system of governance is to blame. Like the police in this country who feel able to murder youths the Greek police are simply better armed.
Join us this Wednesday outside the Greek consulate to voice your anger at this heinous murder.
The Greek Consulate is located at
1 Kirklee Quadrant
Glasgow
Tel: 0141 334 0360
We shall gather there from 2pm this wednesday as our fellow workers in Greece down tools in a general strike to express their disgust with the police and the state.
Please bring whistles, drums and anything else that will make a noise.
Some interesting links:
RIP Harold H Thompson
Long time prisoner and jailhouse lawyer and activist Harold H Thompson has died today of heart failure.
Harold born in 1942 to Irish parent in West Virginia, USA was an anarchist activist during the 1960’s and 1970’s. His exploits, including expropriation of capital to fund further activities, landed him in prison on more than on occasion over the years.
In 1978 however the mother of one of his children was brutally murdered by a man named Crawley who was soon released after agreeing to turn states evidence. After his release he heard bragging in a bar that he was going to kill Harolds child and the other child who had testified against him.
He was within a few day shot in a bar by a masked assailant who escaped unidentified.
Harold was the natural suspect and was after a brief manhunt arrested and sentenced to life plus fifty.
In his time inside he has been a fearless activist and prison house lawyer.
More information on his case can be found here along with a collection of his writings.
Rest in Peace comrade, finally free.
Harold h Thompson 09/04/42 - 11/11/08
Indymedia UK – Dramatic Fail!
For quite some time now Indymedia UK has been plagued by the so called 911 truth movement. These poor deluded souls seem to think the United States so powerful that a bunch of ignorant Arabs could never have carried out the 11/9 attacks.
So convinced are they that they have spent the past 6/7 years desperately attempting to forge links between ever more tenuous pieces of ‘evidence’ and then spamming what seems like the entire internet with their new ‘proof’. (more…)
What Is There That Can Be Done?
Life is good. Life expectancy is approaching 100 years, technological marvels allow us to communicate with
Wher's My Flying Car?
people on the other side of the planet and it takes half a days travel should we wish to visit a friend on the other side of the world. Medical science can cure diseases and maladies that thirty or forty years ago would have been fatal, we can build telescopes so powerful they allow us to see the very edges of the universe. We can tweak the very essence of life and make crops that are resistant to pests and frost, indeed we can even go beyond this and harness the energies of creation itself by taming the atom and generating energy from the elements themselves.
We would appear as gods to our forebears of only a few generations past.
All of these marvelous achievements made by the human race yet still a child dies every couple of seconds due to poor water or through being malnourished. Still a third of children in this country live in relative poverty when compared to the lives of the affluent. Still we spend a full half of our waking hours working, selling ourselves to the highest bidder. We must do this of course for we have to think about the rent or mortgage, we have bills to pay and children to support. We honestly have enough on our plates without considering how others are faring, or to consider that life does not have to be like this.
We see the afore mentioned wonders and of course we are glad, and often times amazed at ourselves and our creation. We do not however benefit from these wonders despite the fact that they are paraded in front of us, a carrot to the stick of unemployment perhaps? We do of course share to some small extent in this progress, mobile phones, computers and cheap holidays in the sun have become the norm now rather than the preserve of the wealthy.
Honestly That's What They Look Like 
Proof that the system works? Well yes the system does work but the question is for whom? Whilst we may have a better standard of living than our great grand parents and have access to some of the wonders of technology we still work as long and have as little time as they did to enjoy our lives. Is it any wonder we at times go out and get raucously drunk or take drugs and dance like wild things of a weekend? If this system did actually work for us then why would we be so stressed that we require a weekend of debauchery to unwind? But this system does work, just not for us.
The present system works in so far as it maintains the imbalance of wealth and power both in this country and abroad. Whilst we spend our days working in call centres, on production lines, serving coffee or whatever we do to earn a living the wealthy few who sit atop this society grow even more wealthy for far less work than we will ever know. To top it off we are told that we have to tighten our belts and make cuts in what little we do have to enjoy in order to stave off the effects of the coming ‘credit crunch’.
“We are all in this together” is the coming mantra of the newspapers and morning TV shows. Even the wealthy will feel the affects of the economic downturn we are told. It may in fact be true that the wealthy few will have to make adjustments to their lifestyles due to the world economy but they will not be affected in anything like the way we are. Fuel prices
More In Common With Her Than Zombie Tranny Anne Gloag!
A Fine Example Of The Ruling Class - Zombie Tranny Hell!
are sky rocketing along with the price of food. The parasites at the top of society will never have to make the choice between warmth and food, a choice no human being should have to make in the twenty first century.
That anyone should have to make decisions like this is disgusting, equally as disgusting as the poverty that is rife around the globe. That may seem a little but disproportionate but when we consider the advances the human race has made over the last century and a half that either situation exists is intolerable.
There are various reasons why these situations exist. Liberal guilt-mongers would have us believe that it is our standard of life in western countries that leads to poverty in so
Parisite - Oh and Noose, you're doing it wrong.
called third world countries. If we would just buy that £5 jar of fairtrade coffee instead of the half that price regular coffee then everything would be OK! Such utter rubbish only continues to feed this system of exploitation that keeps the poor poor whichever part of the word you live in. The fact of the matter is that there is plenty to go around so that not a single person on the planet has to go hungry or cold. In fact there is enough to go around that every person on the planet could have their own solidly built home complete with plasma TV, internet access with room for a hot tub. The only problem is all the resources of this world are owned and controlled by a fabulously wealthy parasitical minority.
So the question remains what is there that can be done? We are in an extremely low point in the social conflict that has dominated the history of the human race. This is going to change in the near future however as the full effects of the credit crunch are felt and as the state and business react to attempt to counter the downturn in profits. This low point though gives those of us who see the inequality within society a chance to build the organisations and networks that we are going to require in order to combat the sure to be coming attacks on our class and to spread revolutionary ideas and modes of organisation.
In order to increase our lot in life and the lot of our children and grand children we have first to build up our strength so as to best be able to resist the attacks of capital and to build that strength through our resistance and our victories.
And Yes, Flat Caps Are Mandatory In The Class Struggle
How do we do this then? Well the first place of activity should be within our communities. By building strength where we live we will better be able to resist rent hikes by unscrupulous landlords and resist the insidious creep of groups like the BNP who would only make things worse by sowing the seeds of racism that will split and fracture our communities further. By claiming that we have more in common with rich folks who happen to have been born in the same country as us they would cloud our eyes to all that we have in common with our neighbours who may have come from afar.
How then do we go about building this strength then? The first obvious step is to form neighbourhood and residents/tenants associations. By building groups that encompass as much of the community as possible we can work together to take on landlords and the council when they threaten us and our neighbours with either eviction or by refusing to maintain the public spaces in our area like we pay them to.
These groups would however be extremely weak if they are isolated and only focus on the problems of their own community, Nimbyism makes us weak. By forming these groups we must encourage others to do so and then work together with one another. Not just on issues that concern all of us but on issues that may only concern one area or community.
If the residents of Possill struggle against the Glasgow Housing Association running their area into the ground and they win then they become stronger, if we all struggle with them and win then we become mighty and no force in Glasgow or beyond can stop us.
In order to prevent these groups being taken over by opportunist politicians or those with agendas that would divide us then we would have to be careful how to go about forming these groups and with how they work together. By restricting the power of elected officers within these groups to the point where they can merely carry out mandated instructions from the entire group then we reduce the risk of groups being steered by those with a political agenda that does not benefit us. By groups networking with one another in a federation and organising through meetings attended by delegates who again have to carry out a strict mandate then we reduce the risk of these same people derailing the actual work we have to do for their or their parties own ends.
The second place of struggle is obviously the workplace. In the UK we have seen a massive downturn in union membership with hardly any young people today belonging to a union. This is a terrible state of affairs seeing as how the union is traditionally the first place people encounter struggle within a workplace. As appalling as this is it is not at all surprising when we even take a perfunctory glance at the trade union movement as it is today. What then is thee that can be done?
All the answers to societies problems coming soon followed by a wee bit on why ‘radical’ greens would have us all living in caves and grooming one another for lice.
Organise, Resist, Win!
Bollocks To Indymedia UK And Bollocks To The Climate Camp
I have had it up to here with goddamn self righteous fucking hippies.
Recently on Indymedia UK there was an open letter to the Climate Camp from Dave Douglass of the National Union of Miners expressing concerns about the Climate Camps aim to shut down Kingsnorth power station next month. Dave was rightly concerned that in the propaganda put out by the camp there is little about the fate of workers in the industries targetted by the camp. The letter was well thought out, polite and looked like it could have been the start of a creative discourse. However whilst there were a couple of sensible comments the majority seemed to be of the opinion ‘tough’, let them lose their jobs.
Now I had expected this to be the case but when I looked at the hidden comments (you add ?c=all to the end of the address) I noticed that any comment even vaguely critical of the camp had been hidden. This has really pissed me off, not just because two of my comments have been hidden but because people who posted things that in no way broke the editorial guidelines of the site had their posts hidden. There is only one word I can think of to describe this and though I am loath to say it this is censorship, an active attempt to distort a story and quell any criticism of the dominant force, middle class hippy scum fucks in this case.
Here is one of the comments that was hidden.
Thank God this is now out in the open, I was really pissed off to see the NUM group get shouted down during one of the planning meetings. The smarmy middle class lot who have taken over the climate camp in 2008 just do not want to listen and this needs to be addressed.
The climate camp has certainly lost its way of late probably because of those running it.
How this breaches any of the editorial guidelines I do not know. I had decided to stay out of the debate being as I can have a somewhat barbed tongue which isn’t always helpful or constructive (apparantly) until I saw this muppet calling themselves “Anti-hierarchy, Anti-leaders, Anti-organisation” (the last bit says it all really) posted the following
Climate Camp is…
not an organisation, so please stop saying “can Climate Camp do this? can Climate Camp do that?”. Or is it that you need a collective organisation with a flag that its members can rally around even if its redundant? From people and their imaginations climate camp came, and to there it will return. Meantime, most of you will still be worshipping the leaders who keep you poor.
What a load of hippy pish. There is an organizational hierarchy within the ‘creative spontaneity’ or whatever drivel you want to call it.This is mostly made up of those people who have the cash and spare time to be able to attend the planning meetings around the country.
Asking for a response from this, dare I say it, elite is hardly that much to ask. Directing those questions towards ‘The Climate Camp’ is also understandable as there are a variety of different working groups, surely there is one who could take it on board to respond to Dave Douglas and other workers concerned by their jobs coming under attack from a bunch of self righteous hippies.
Or maybe the beloved leaders didn’t think that workers might be a bit peeved about being put out of their jobs.
Anarchists Arrested In Penza, Russia
Two anarchists, Oslav Kirosheyev and Vitaly Bakhmasterov, were arrested on June 16th in the city of Penza for handing out leaflets. The comrades were arrested under anti-terror legislation for handing out the leaflets which read “Government is the prison of the people. Become an anarchist and free yourself!” they face possible imprisonment as well as expulsion from University.
The police are basically using anti-extremism legislation to outlaw all anarchist activity, just like in the good old days of uncle joe.
There is a russian language news story here and if anyone could offer a translation I would be most grateful. We must find some way of sending a message to the Russian authorities that we will not tolerate this kind of treatment of our comrades.
A possible fax for sending nasty letters about the case would be the city Duma (municipal government) :
3-01 54-18-12
Also the Russian consulate in Edinburgh is located at 58 Melville street and I’m sure that they would be more than happy to answer any question people may have. The phone number for the consulate is 0131-225-7098 and the fax is 0131 225-9587.
The embassy at 5 Kensington Palace Gardens, London can be reached on 0203-051-11-99
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