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Issue 843        |          Download PDF
RUSSIAN ROULETTE
Russian anti-fascist unfairly imprisoned under Putin's new house rules.
DUST-UP!
It's wildcat vs Kitkat as Brighton's binmen take on the Green council.
SETT FOR A SHOWDOWN
Somerset's badgers are in the sniper's sights as activists vow to disrupt the cull.
LEVEL PLAYING FIELD?
  It's Hove vs Gove as the education secretary aims to concrete over recreation ground in the name of God.
CALAIS COPS AGAIN? SACREBLEU!
More updates from Calais No Borders Network
On the Lewes
Squatted community social centre and veg shop opens in Lewes.
Darfur: It ain't over.
Sudanese refugees and supporters protest in London to highlight the 10 year anniversary of the conflict which ripped apart their regions.
FULL DISCLOSURE?
UPDATE: They finally coughed up. After two days of consistent hassling by activists at the Department for Transport earlier last month, during which one person got nicked, the DfT sheepishly released the previously top secret (read: problematic and embarrassing) documents about the Bexhill-Hastings Link Road.
Issue 842        |          Download PDF
DO FEAR THE REAPER
'Ground the Drones' demo to take place in Lincoln this Saturday as UK expands armed drone programme - and international resistance to the Drone Wars amps up.
A CUT ABOVE THE REST
Anti-cuts protesters block Lord Freud's Highgate London home and stage "evict a millionaire" demo.
WHIP ROUND
A member of the Old Berkshire Hunt pleads guilty to assault.
LIVING ROOM?
New Squat Law Fails In Court
MOBS AND COPPERS
Brighton turns out thousands to oppose the March for England's message of hate.
Issue 841        |          Download PDF
FULL DISCLOSURE?
UPDATE: They finally coughed up. After two days of consistent hassling by activists at the Department for Transport earlier last month, during which one person got nicked, the DfT sheepishly released the previously top secret (read: problematic and embarrassing) documents about the Bexhill-Hastings Link Road.
Issue 840        |          PDF Not Available
STEALING A MARCH?
Oh Christ ..not again, about as welcome as Jimmy Saville at an orphanage, it's time for the outbreak of political venereal disease that is the March for England set to tarnish the streets of Brighton again on April 21st.
Minor Ding Dong as Witch Dies
Thatcher-haters party into the night.
Refugee Revolt
'Non-citizens'  take to the streets of Berlin in the latest instalment of the Refugee Strike shaking things up in Germany.
SHARK TALE
SchNEWS goes on a fishing expedition with co-founder of the Fin Free Cambridge Campaign and finds out about the group's initial success and what's in hold for the future.
Bexhill Bypass: Round Two
With protestors gearing up for a second round of resistance there could be 'diversions ahead' for the East Sussex County Council and the road backing scum Trinity College in the University of Cambridge.
Not a Happy Campus
In solidarity with 235 Sussex University workers whose jobs are threatened with privatisation, protesters from around the country converge on Sussex University's campus (alread site of an ongoing occupation), invade management HQ and make a bonfire out of corporate files.
Lock and Awe
It’s hard to believe it’s been ten years since the US-UK coalition invaded Iraq. 10 years since that fatal day on the 19th of March 2003 when the neoconservative “Crazies in the White House” bought their own propaganda and believed they could reshape the Middle-East with a blitzkrieg military campaign of “Shock and Awe”.
Issue 839        |          Download PDF
EDF getting the Point?
Recent announcement by Environmental Agency grants permits to EDF aiding the production of nuclear energy at Hinkley Point C.
Summit to look forward to!
If the “world leaders” heading to Enniskillen in June were hoping for an easy protest-free ride they were sadly mistaken
WHITE TRASH
National Front demonstration has a poor turn out in Swansea, followed by a Blood & Honour gig in the valleys.
SQUAT THE CULL
Anti-cull travellers and squatters plot land seizures.
Wheels of Justice?
A staggering five convictions out of the Met Police's largest ever mass arrest during the Olympic Opening Ceremony.
IT'S A DOGS LIFE
Protesters call for the closure of Harlan Laboratories - leading breeders of research animals - and for a government inquiry into animal testing.
MAN DISUNITED
Dead cat bounce as EDL irritate the people of Manchester?
Throwing down the Gauntlett
New squatting law forces homeless to sleep in the cold with lethal consequences.
THERE'LL BE ELM TO PAY
Campaigners have occupied a 150-year-old elm tree in Brighton. The tree was scheduled for felling as part of road works in the Seven Dials area.
OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD
UK ISM activist expecting imminent deportation after arrest by Israeli military
BOTTLE UP
On International Taiji Action Day for Dolphins 2013  a demonstration was held outside the Japanese Embassy in Piccadilly, London
Issue 838        |          Download PDF
Eco-Maniacs
Despite reports from pro-Israel newspapers to the contrary, race war is not about to break out in front of Brighton's crappiest fizzy drinks seller.
CHAIN LINKS
Over 10,000 anti-fascists gathered in Dresden, East Germany on Wednesday (13th) to oppose a neo-Nazi march.
STRIKE A POSEIDON
Whaling ship Nisshin Maru collides with Sea Shepherd vessels in an all out desperate initiative to take the Whale Navy out of action causing Japan to suspend its annual whaling hunt.
ANTI-CAMERA CREW
Civil liberties activists in Germany and elsewhere are taking a novel, and militant, approach to CCTV culture.
SHOOTS OF RESISTANCE
Protesters set up new camp and plan Weekend of Action after being ousted from the trees last month.
THE LAW IS A GAS
Energy giant EDF seeks to bankrupt chimney climbers
Issue 837        |          Download PDF
TRUNK CALL
Not deterred by the eviction of the camps on the route, over thirty opponents of the £100 million Bexhill-Hastings link road visited East Sussex County Council in Lewes this week.
Hey you with the ZAD face?
  SchNEWS interview's one of the ZAD crew
R.I.P. Akiva Orr
Known by many as the "godfather of Israeli anarchism", author, activist and radical anti-zionist troublemaker Akiva “Aki” Orr, had pursued a radical vision for a democratic one state solution in Palestine and Israel for over 50 years.
OCCUPY THE OCCUPATION!!
Burin is one of a group of small Palestinian villages near Nablus in the Occupied West Bank. Burin has been having a lot of problems off the local settlers, especially one settlement in particular: Yitzhar, which currently holds the distinction of being the most violent settlement in the West Bank.
HAPPY CAMPUS?
Sussex students seize University conference centre in protest against privatisation.
FREEDOM CHARRED
Freedom Bookshop receives an arson attack but survives to tell more tales.
WELL RED!
Friern Barnet library saved by direct action and community campaigning. Put that in yer Big Society and smoke it.
PARKING UP THE WRONG TREE
The Combe Haven lot aren't the only ones getting in the way of diggers. A small but determined protest camp has pitched up in a more urban setting: Manchester's Alexandra Park.
Issue 836        |          Download PDF
STAG DO
Animal protesters gather in Richmond to demonstrate against deer culling in London's Royal Parks.
COMBE HAVEN EVICTION
The last camp on the Bexhill bypass route was evicted as Tory government barks up the wrong tree.
TB OR NOT TB?
As badger cull looms – SchNEWS asks what are the real causes of bovine TB?
THE ONLY WAY IS ANTI-FUR
Animal rights campaigners from Essex Animal Defenders group are holding anti-fur demonstrations outside local shops.
DECOY POLLOI!
Update : Camp Decoy on the route of the Bexhill Bypass successfully survives the second day of siege.
WRI bite the bullet
War Resisters International pay taxes under protest
Calais Cops: Question Time
Following evidence of cruelty against migrants submitted by solidarity activists, French police are under scrutiny from Defender of Rights.
Brands are for cattle?
Last October animal rights activists  in Israel pulled a painful stunt. They publicly used a red- hot iron to brand each other with the numbers 269
NOT A COMBE OVER
The year is 2013 A.D Bexhill is entirely occupied by the Romans. Well, not entirely...One small village of indomitable tree-sitters still holds out against the invaders.
"I'm not a fascist ..I'm a Nazi!"
Golden shower as British far-right turn in another piss-poor performance at the Greek Embassy
Combe Haven Update: The real Decoy?
Two camps down at Bexhill - but the best is yet to come!!
Bexhill Camp Resists
The main camp at Bexhill took to the trees and tunnels as bailiffs and police arrived on mass this Wednesday (16th).
Issue 835        |          Download PDF
FOWL PLAY AT KFC
Animal rights campaigner is attacked outside KFC outlet during a protest
FOOL'S GOLD
For 25 years Golden Dawn were a marginal group that for the most attacked small left-wing and anarchist groups and sometimes would also go for immigrants. Until a few years ago they never measured more than 200 members. Up until recently they had one office. Now? They have forty-eight.
Combe and have a go...
Bexhill Bypass Update from a Combe Haven defender
BEXHILL STREET BLUES
The real battle of Bexhill begins as activists and contractors face off over tree felling near Adam's Farm.  
Issue 834        |          Download PDF
THROWING AWAY THE KEY
One group of Spanish workers has come together to stick a spanner in the works of austerity misery. Or more specifically, in the locks.
BEXHILL CAMP NEEDS YOU!
Derail the first and the worst of the new road schemes for the UK.
ICE TO SEE YOU
Things are heating up in Antarctica as Sea Shepherd and the Japanese whaling fleet are about to come head to head for the 9th season.
HINKLEY UPDATE: PROTESTERS FINED IN COURT
Anti-nuclear protesters fined for obstructing the highway outside Hinkley Nuclear power plant.
ABOVE THE LAW?
Murky goings on as Sussex fox-hunt fronted by ex-policeman attacks monitors and flouts the law.
Issue 833        |          Download PDF
ELF IS HOME FOR CHRISTMAS
Environmental activist is released after seven years imprisonment.
Tax Money? Don't West Bank on it.
State services and employees crippled by Israel's refusal to hand over Palestinian taxes.
NO BAIL OUT OF JAIL CARD FOR MORGAN THE ORCA
Sadness and disappointment but no surprises as judges in Amsterdam rule against releasing Morgan the Orca back into the wild.
Battle of Bexhill
Anti-road protestors in Bexhill were ambushed by an early start to the tree-felling on the controversial Bexhill-Hastings link road this week, but they rallied and using direct action have put a spanner in the works.
Well Angry
Restart of fracking after year and half delay set to amp up resistance
Issue 832        |          Download PDF
Doha Hoo-Ha
Activists gather outside UN talks at Doha, Qatar as negotiators pretend to debate climate change.
ZAD TO SEE YOU GO
Since October, Europe's longest, largest 'Postcapitalist land occupation', la ZAD (Zone A Defendre) has been under attack from French authorities who want to clear it and build an airport. Here's another update from 'le frontline'...
BROCK HARD
Despite the amazing success of the counter-mobilisation that saw this year's planned badger culls in Somerset and Gloucestershire cancelled in October DEFRA are already looking for new cull zones.
Nuke on my watch
  Anti-Nuclear activists blockade UK plants to protest the extent of destruction upcoming expansion will cause.
Ich Bin Anti-fa
German anti-fascists take Berlin on 20th anniversary of comrade Silvio Meier's murder.
Courting with Apartheid
As a pro-Palestine speech to Hackney Council is banned, who are UK Lawyers for Israel and what other campaigns have they been waging to silence and criminalise Palestine solidarity activism?
Interview with a ZAD resister
UPDATE: The sh*t's well and truly hit the fan since we published this interview last week... Stay tuned for more SchNEWS from the front...
Issue 831        |          Download PDF
OUT OF THEIR FRACKING MINDS
With the dark clouds of unconventional gas extraction looming over the British Isles, the anti-fracking resistance is responding by cranking it up a gear. Community groups across the country are organising for a day of action on Saturday 1st December...
Gaza into the Abyss
Israeli forces have begun a massive terror campaign against the Gaza Strip
GEO-POLITICS
What is known about the death of a Ghanian man in Harmondsworth IRC on October 30th? And who are GEO Group, the private prison firm desperately trying to shift culpability?
EATING LIKE PIIGS
Protesters hold an anti-austerity Plebs and PIIGS Banquet outside Lord Mayor's Banquet as a precursor to day of action and strikes across Europe.
RACIST HUNTSMAN BUSTED
Frank exchanges of views are par for the course when the hunt meet the sabs, but David Lee Peters, master of the Ross Harriers Hunt overstepped the mark when he unleashed a volley of racist abuse at a hunt sab in January this year.
STOP THE MARCH FOR ENGLAND
Guest post from Rough Music.
EGGED ON:
Mike Weatherley, the M.P behind the squatting ban, due to deliver a talk on the new squatting legislation, at the University of Sussex today, was instead chased off campus by students and protesters.
E, E IDIOTS
EDL fail to make an impact in Norwich or West Ham. EDL muster 200 in Norwich while Infidels pull thirty in London.
NO LULZ IN THE ACTION
Anonymous hit the streets on bonfire night.
Another death in Gaza
A 13 year old Palestinian was killed in Gaza after being hit by an Israeli helicopter in the never-ending onslaught.
UN-HAPPY CAMPERS
Refugees set up a protest camp in front of the historic Brandenburg gate in Berlin and go on hunger strike over abysmal treatment in the hands of the state.
More Droning On
Robot wars in Afghanistan are set to increase when the Ministry of Defence unveils it's new five armed Reaper drones...
A WHALE OF A TIME
Free Willy meets Kramer vs Kramer as environmentalists go to court to free Morgan the killer whale from captivity
Issue 830        |          Download PDF
Gone For a Burton
As fifteen intrepid No Dash for Gas activists occupy a West Burton power station for the fourth day...
Bragging Rites
The London Queer Social Centre announce their closing down party
South Down but not out!!
Vicious hunt attack fails to deter sabs.
Palestine's Bedouin- Down in the Dumps?
Palestinian Bedouins face systematic ethnic cleansing from the Israeli state in the Naqab/Negev and the Jordan Valley
Marble Arch Enemies
Wheelchair users link up again...
GO TO CALAIS!
UKBA- blood on their hands
Activists and friends pull out all the stops to prevent UKBA sending family to persecution in Egypt.
ALL RIOT ON THE WESTMINSTER FRONT?
Update 28/10/12 English Defence League in full retreat.
ONE SKINNY-TAX-MOCK-A-CCINO TO GO
How ubiqitous terrible coffee chain, Starbucks, gets away with serving up tax free profits for its shareholders...
Don't Stop Til You've ZAD Enough
Land occupiers fight back as cops try to evict for airport development in France
US Anarchist Crackdown
Three US activists in jail as federal authrorities target anarchists
Issue 829        |          Download PDF
The Battle of the Bypass Begins
While the government bucks austerity to finance environmentally devastating roads programme, protesters kick off a new anti-roads front.
What's your Hinkley Point?
Activists gear up for weekend of action against EDF plans for new nuclear at Hinkley Point, Somerset.
SONS OF ANTIFASCISM
Anti-fascist vigilantes take to the roads on motorbikes around Athens as racist attacks increase.
FIGHT FOR SITES
Traveller Solidarity turning the tables at the Department for Communities and Local Government as mass action day approaches.
HEAVY WATERS
Villagers and fishermen go to sea to blockade new nuclear plant in India.
Issue 828        |          Download PDF
House arrest (without a home) in Tel Aviv!
Four ISM international volunteers under house arrest in Israel after being arrested and beaten by the army.
GO FORTH AND MULTIPLY
October 2nd to 16th is Seed Freedom Fortnight. Starting on the anniversary of Ghandi's birth and ending appropriately on World Food Day, there are two weeks to get out and partake in a wide range of seed related actions. But why should you dig it?
Haigh Stacked
Out of the squats and into the er... prisons. As, Alex Haigh, the first squatter to be sent down under S.144 recieves three months.
BLACK AND WHITE ISSUE
Badger cull activists may have delayed start of the wildlife massacre.
Border into Chaos
Calais migrants fight back with road-blocking action
Zapatistas under attack in Mexico
Autonomous villages seiged by paramilitaries.
Brought to Facebook
Azhar Ahmed convicted for criticising the occupation of Afghanistan on social media.
Issue 827        |          Download PDF
SQUATTING FIGHTBACK
Squatters Legal Network offer support and advice to cracking addicts.
BYPASS OPERATION
Locals organise a camp against the renewed threat of a Hastings-Bexhill link road.
CULLING ME SOFTLY
Animal activists gear up to confront badger cull after legal challenge fails.
DOING A RUNNYMEDE
Protest camp celebrates injunction fail
Bubble Trouble
Activists picket newly opened Israel-linked SodaStream shop in Brighton.
FAILED THREATS
To the barricades! As fascists plan to attack an anarchist social centre at some point in the future (or possibly past).
Issue 826        |          Download PDF
Rigged Trial
Fracking activists' court victory
HITTING ON THE FENCE
Smash EDO campaigner vindicated in court.
Brought to Book
North London library, closed by cuts, opened by squatters.
Coming Apart at the Seams
It's West Country extreme action time! Unfortunately not shotgunning jugs of scrumpy while listening to the Wurzels though. Soon Somerset may may be infamous for an even more dangerous activity. Yep, that's right- The West Country is about to get fracked.
A Fight on the Tiles
Predictably enough it was Brighton squatters who found themselves first in the firing line of Hove MP Mike Weatherley's new anti-squatting law. 
DEATH KNELL FOR THE EDL?
EDL humiliated in Walthamstow
Issue 825        |          Download PDF
STICKY BUSINESS
Smash EDO campaigners found guilty after glue-on
ON A PARA TRIP
Paralympic sponsors Atos hit by protests for their persecution of disabled and vulnerable benefit claimants...
No Justice
No justice for ISM activist Rachel Corrie, killed by the Israeli Defence force in Gaza 2003
Building Resistance
Squatters prepare to resist new anti-squatting law as it comes into force on September 1st. Meanwhile renters show they can be radical too...
IT'LL BE ALAWITE ON THE NIGHT?
As the optimism of the Arab Spring has turned into a nightmare in Syria, SchNEWS takes a belated look at the Syrian Uprising and some of the regional players whose involvement have made the conflict so bloody and so hard to understand.
Issue 824        |          Download PDF
CUNNING STUNT
Brighton Feminist Collective stage flashmob in support of Pussy Riot
GOLDEN SHOWER
Immigrant's murder sparks arson in Greece as Golden Dawn Athens offices torched
AMAZON GRACE
A rare victory was achieved last Tuesday for the indigenous cause, with a high-level court ruling the suspension of the construction of the Belo Monte dam on the Amazon’s Xingu River.
NUN-CLEAR REACTION
Three anti-nuclear peace protesters (including a nun) cause major security breach at US nuclear weapons plant
Issue 823        |          PDF Not Available
GREEK HOSPITALITY CRISIS
6,400 migrants detained by police in the largest ethnic cleansing operation ever to hit Athens.
HUNTS HOUNDED
One hunt folds and another gets hammered in court ..and the season hasn't even started yet.
ShowTrial Girls
“We are freer than those who are prosecuting us. We can say everything we want, and they have their mouths shut, and are puppets." - Nadezhda Tolokonnikova Pussy Riot member
Jungle Bust
Indigenous resistance to Brazil’s mega Amazon dam project, Belo Monte, stepped up several notches recently following the arrest by tribal authorities of three engineers from Norte Energia, the corporation behind the dam’s construction.
Issue 822        |          Download PDF
Mass-ive Twat
At least there's been some good news for cyclists this week as Merc-driving berk Christikas Zantis is busted by Brighton Mags
Freedom to Fail
Freedom Press- the publishers of the U.Ks only regular anarchist (well anarchist with a capital A) newspaper are in danger of folding after having to settle a copyright claim out of court with a freelance photographer.
Mass Arrest of the Week
London's Olympic ceremony didn't stand a chance of competing against Beijing in scale or spectacle, but Team GB is sure as hell giving the Chinese a run for their money when it comes to state repression.
Locked On & Loaded
EDO blockaders finally get their day in court.
GAMES WITHOUT FRONTIERS
Countering Olympic Repression in Calais as 'Jeux Sans Frontieres' demo successful
BRAVE HEARTS
BNP booted out of Scotland
Let the Games Begin
“Whose Games? Whose City?" peaceful demonstration calling on the Olympic bogus scheduled for this Saturday in Mile End Park in East London at midday
INCANDESCENT IN ISRAEL
Two Israeli protesters set themselves on fire, incensed at lack of aid from the state.
PUMP OFF THE VOLUME
Greenpeace activists disrupt business at 90 Shell petrol stations in protest over the corporate giant's explotation of climate change.
Issue 821        |          Download PDF
Wall Caper
Police high tech tool of oppression turned against the arms dealers during Smash EDO's Weapons Inspection demo
HEPHAESTUS RISING
The workers of Viomihaniki Metalleytiki (a facility making parts for the Mining Industry) have taken over the running of the factory in Thessaloniki, Greece.
SHAFTED!!
Anti-fracking activists found guilty in Lancashire oil rig trial
BRISTOL FASHION
 Dismal turn-out of around 300 to what had been billed by the League as a national demo...
TOMLINSON KILLER WALKS FREE
Today, as feared, Ian Tomlinson's killer PC Simon Harwood walked free from court.
Culling In The Name Of...
Bad news for badgers as High Court decision deems badger cull trial lawful
Not Over Reacting
Anti-nuclear protests in Japan as plants fired up again
OPPOR-TUNA-TY
The Black Fish release hundreds of captive bluefin tuna into the Adriatic Sea.
'Ni Oubli, Ni Pardon'
Anger as French police refuse to investigate tragic death of Sudanese man in Calais.
BLOOD OR GLITTER
Shamed Tory Nemeth's nemesis, aka the glitter throwing thug, in his own words (Actually this was originally posted as a comment on the article "Tory Story" but we felt it was just too good not to share more widely)
Issue 820        |          Download PDF
Fired Hydrant
Who'd have thought? Homophobia in the Hydrant bar, formerly the site of many a SchNEWS gig
De-ACTA-vated
European Parliament rejects The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA)
LEVELLER PLAYING FIELD
Activists began a project of land reclamation in Runnymeade
Taking the Pizarro
Indigenous communities in Peru face violent repression for protests against oil and mine devastation.
Anti-Fra Hooligans
Anti-Fracking Protesters on Trial in Preston
TORY STORY II
Brighton and Hove Tories were kind enough to respond to our previous story. Unfortunately their response left a little to be desired. Here's what we said in return.
creeping in crawley
Rooftop protesting against the “illegal and immoral activities” of the world's biggest security in both the UK and Palestine/Israel.
Issue 819        |          Download PDF
Darkness at Dawn
As the financial crisis continues in Greece, neo-Nazis Golden Dawn exploit people's fears for electoral success
A FINE KETTLE OF FISH
Judge rules in favour of Sea Shepherd, the international non-profit Marine Wildlife Conservation Organisation, during a trial in a UK court after a lawsuit filed by Fish and Fish, a Maltese tuna company.
Rio Carnival
Green economy? Fat chance at the Rio+20 Summit
TORY STORY
Local Tories libel anti-arms trade campaign as anti-semitic. We unveil how Weatherly's minions failed the smear test.
The Ungovernable Force?
Russian punks Pussy Riot remain behind bars, while Indonesian punks continue to suffer police harassment.
Police Siren?
Climate Siren – a previously unheard of organisation connected to the Campaign Against Climate Change (CACC), stage one of the oddest actions SchNEWS has heard of for a while:a pro-monarchist anti-climate change lock-on
What freedom of movement?
As police round up and deport the homeless.
The Frack Block
Frack Off campaigners successfully disrupted fracking operations early morning on Monday (18th June) in Derbyshire, when a group of protesters locked on to the gates of Cuadrilla's drilling contractor, PR Marriot.
Ramping up the pressure
Traffic was brought to a standstill for over two hours outside the Houses of Parliament by disability rights protesters last Wednesday
GO DIRECTOR TO JAIL
As part of an ongoing string of arrests and harassment by Israeli military, the artistic director of the 'Freedom Theatre' in the Jenin refugee camp is seized from his home in the early  hours.
Issue 818        |          Download PDF
you snooze, you lose
Brighton's squatted Autonomous Homeless Shelter organised a Mass Sleep Out action outside Brighton Town Hall. The following day representatives from the AHS attended a court hearing in Brighton magistrates where they lost possession of the property.
Smash EDO No War On Iran demo
New Police tactics but the good city of Brighton and Hove luckily survives to live another day as Smash EDO score a pre-emptive strike for peace with a "No War on Iran" demo
Tel-Aviv La Difference
On 24 May, the Hatikva neighborhood in Tel-Aviv was set alight by rascist rioting and violence towards the Sudanese refugee population. The hateful violence was sparked up by racist political speeches delivered by government officials and rightist-settlers.
Miner Threat
Spanish miners riot and roadblock against government cuts
OCCUPY THE OCCUPATION
New squatted space in London puts Palestine on the map
SERF'S UP
As workfare chainstore gang is mobilised to pay homage to our monarch.
FOLLY TUNNELS
Anti- Third Runway Land Occupation in Court
GIMME SHELTER
Brighton's Autonomous Homeless Shelter plans a mass sleep out outside Brighton Town Hall on Wednesday (6th).
CURIOSITY KILLED THE CATT
Protester John Catt loses domestic extremism database battle in draconian decision
Bangers and Fash
The EDL’s football hooligan division, Casuals United, had been boasting on their blog that they would be returning to Brighton in numbers and strength to take revenge on local people. Here's what happened next.
Fash & Chips
EDL's Casuals United humiliate themselves in Brighton once again.
Issue 817        |          PDF Not Available
JUBILEE BY THE SEA
Rollercoaster weekend in the City by the Sea, with tea, cake and fascism.
UKBA Rude Awakening
Glasgow UKBA blockaded in protest at resumed dawn raids.
RE ACTA VATED
New worldwide demos against ACTA being organised for 9 June.
Fossil Fools
Almost 20 years to the day since the Rio Earth Summit in Brazil and the world is no closer to tackling climate change.
If we stay there will be stubble - updated
One week after one man trashed GM crops, 400 protesters have a bit less luck.
Issue 816        |          Download PDF
QUEEN MUTINY
UK Uncut plan a series of anti-austerity parties up and down the country
Beat home Chicago
As NATO's top-brass met in Chicago to debate a way out of the mess they created in Afghanistan, the freedoms they claimed to stand uphold there were being eroded on their doorstep.
Do us a Favela
Brazilan government accused of unlawful and inhuman treatment of its citizens during the preparation to receive the Olympics 2016 and the World Cup 2014
FASH POLISHED OFF
On 13th May fascists after one of their silly marches decided to attack Art Festival in squatted social center Rozbrat in Poznan (West Poland). Due to reaction of activists present attack failed but the story doesn't end there..
I can SEA clearly now
Sea Shepherd founder Paul Watson gets released on bail from German prison for a decade old Costa Rican misdemeanors.
QUEBEC'S AGAINST THE WALL
New laws brought in to crush Quebec's Maple Spring.
VIOLENCE IS GOLDEN
Greek fascist organisation Golden Dawn celebrate gaining electoral seats with violence against immigrants.
IF I STAY THERE WILL BE STUBBLE
One man at least wasn't waiting for the public protest against genetically modified wheat in Rothamsted. According to mainstream news sources Hector Christie scaled the fence on Sunday morning and caused 'significant random damage'.
Issue 815        |          Download PDF
Fear the Reaper
Anti-militarists Smash EDO take the drone war to the arms dealers
Large one with Mayo
The seventh annual Rossport Solidarity Camp gathering is taking place in Erris, Co.Mayo, Ireland from the 1st to the 4th of June.
DATA CAPTURE
No, you're not paranoid they really are out to get you. Not content with fingerprinting and taking a DNA swab the moment you're dragged across the threshold of the newly-privatised KOPSHOP TM, they're now going to hack into your mobile.
SEDGE OF DARKNESS
Mutant wasteland
Converging on the Ridiculous
Location of Squatters Convergence exclusively revealed!!
TRAILS AND TRIBULATION
Three members of the Crawley and Horsham Hunt were convicted of illegal fox hunting this week at Haywards Heath magistrates' court.
Penitentiary, My Dear Watson
Anti-whaling veteran and top sea dog at Sea Shepherd, Captain Paul Watson has been arrested in Germany on a Costa Rican arrest warrant.
OUR JOB'S NEXT!
Over 20,000 violent individuals take part in a surprisingly peaceful demonstration.
Issue 814        |          Download PDF
NO MORE FISH IN THE SEA
A microscopic view on Marine Wildlife Conservation, concentrating in the Mediterrean Sea and the upcoming campaign of the Black Fish this summer.
justice for kelly thomas
On Monday 7th at Orange County Court, California footage of 37 year old Kelly Thomas being beaten to death was shown at the preliminary hearing of two of the officers responsible
DEBT & TAXES
Recoiling from the austerity measures activists and organisations worldwide are starting to get together to fight back against the illegitimacy of the national debts and bailouts. On 7th April the first Euro-Mediterranean Meeting of the newly formed International Network for Citizen Debt Audits took place in Brussels.
HELLENIC DISUNITY
Rundown on Greece's latest electoral chaos
MASSIVE SNOB
Brighton is hosting the International Squatters Convergence from 17th-19th May...
LUTON - BUT NOT BURNING
The EDLs much-vaunted 'homecoming' to Luton last week-end was, in the end, a damp squib
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Bill posters will not be prosecuted
Greenpeace action against fuel rip-off merchants Centrica
ROADS TO HELL
 SchNEWS examines the the Con-Dems' foreboding plans for an all out attack on Britain's few remaining green and pleasant lands. Will the protest scene dust off its tin whistles and timewarp us back to the nineties?
Running on Empty
Pressure is rising against the Israeli Prison Service as around 2,000 Palestinian prisoners enter their third week of hunger strike.
Oporto-Unity Knocks
While fighting closure, the Portuguese Es.Col.A movement has been inspiring the whole country to engage on self-management of abandoned spaces...
A FIRST FOR BLOOD
Four members of the Crawley and Horsham Hunt are on trial for illegally hunting a fox with a dog, the first ever such case in Sussex...
a smashing start to summer
OK, technically it's not quite summer yet, but Smash EDO kick of the Summer of Resistance with a bad music demo
Lies, Damn Lies & the EDL
The fuel of the far right – half truths, misrepresentation and lies.
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Tags for the Memory
Gratton the German Activist who was tasered during the Dale Farm Eviction finally had his electronic tag removed.
I KNOW WHAT YOU'LL DO THIS SUMMER
Long-term Brighton anti-war direct action campaigners Smash EDO are gearing up for the start of the long awaited Summer of Resistance this coming week.
Summits Up!
Climate Justice target UK Energy Summit
Occupy The Farm
A new strategy inspired by South American peasant movements has emerged in San Francisco. 'Occupy The Farm' intends to break the corporations' control over the food industry and replace it by community-managed food production.
REPORT FROM AFA IRELAND TALK IN LONDON
Saturday  21st April 2012 evening saw LARC (London Action Resource Centre) play host to a talk from a speaker from Anti-Fascist Action Ireland.
FASH, BANG, WALLOP
Update on Sunday 22nds anti-fascist action in Brighton.
ART WAR
Italian museum burns art works in protest over budget cuts as art imitates life
Flytilla Grounded
Pro-Palestinian protesters once again prevented from entering Israel during mass 'fly-in'.
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BIBLE BASHERS BUSTED
Worthing based anti-abortionists get a taste of their own medicine.
BY GEORGE!
As SchNEWS dives into the path of the March for England
Inspiring Solutions for Desperate Times
A new community-based bartering system emerged in Volos, Greece to counteract the devastating effects of an all time high recession.
AMAZON DAMNED?
Indigenous and environmental groups are fighting Brazil's Belo Monte dam. Built in the heart of the Amazon, the project threatens to destroy rich ecosystems and displace indigenous cultures
FROM TRIPOLI TO TIMBUCTU
Coup and secession in Mali are the unintended consequences of NATO's regime change in Libya
Hungry for Freedom
As Palestinian's prepare to mark Prisoner's Day on the 17th April, prisoners call for mass open-ended hunger strike
Olympic Cleansing in Calais
Pre games tension spills over into police violence against migrants and activists in Calais
A Day Leyton a Doller Short
Protesters block destruction of Leyton Marsh for Olympic development
DRONED OUT
Anti militarists in Bristol successfully disrupt the Unmanned Aircraft Vehicle Conference in Bristol
FLOUR TO THE PEOPLE
Day of Mass Action against genItically modified wheat in Harpenden
DARKSIDE OF THE FORCED ENTRY
Brighton squatters made homeless in a politically motivated eviction
Call of the Wilderness
The Wilderness centre in Mitcheldean in the Forest of Dean was taken by activists back in January after budget cuts forced it to close in August last year.
Foxy News
The end of season round up from our hunt saboteurs.
Indignados For Victory
Hundred of thousands joined general strike to protest against the harshest austerity budget in Europe.
ROOFLESS EXTREMISTS
Squatters take to the streets to show their opposition to the Legal Aid bill and the criminalisation of the homeless.
DANISH PASTING
If Carlsberg did antifascist mobilisations... The EDL and their European friends come unstuck in the supposed neo-Nazi stronghold of Aarhus.
MOTION SICKNESS
Simulated Jubilee disruption threat leads to council corruption exposé of Tory military-industrial-police Cox-up
General Strike in Portugal Escalates into Violence
7 people injured asPortugal brought to halt in general strike against austerity measures.
Bolton Blunderers
Anti-fascists counter piss-poor Infidel turn out in the North West.
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AMERICAN OCCUPY
The Occupy Movement has joined forced with protesters demanding justice for murdered black teen Trayvon Martin- just part the ongoing struggle for justice for the 99%
Justice for Jock Palfreeman
Prisoner solidarity action for imprisoned anti-fascist Jock Palfreeman
ANARCHY & EMERGENCY
As plans to privatise the NHS pass through the House of Commons here in the UK, SchNEWS takes a look at a radical approach to the healthcare system in the smal town of Kilikis, Greece- where hospital staff have taken matters into their own hands.
Hong Kong Bank Shanghaied
Brighton squatters busted on bum felony rap
(BACK) OUT OF AFRICA
Winter truce ends with migrant evictions in Calais
WE'LL FIGHT THEM NEAR THE BEACHES
Farcical day out for the EDL in Brighton's Churchill Square
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SHUT YOUR FACEBOOK
Azhar Ahmed, 19, arrested for diatribe against British forces in Afghanistan
What the Fukushima?
Activists blockade new-build nuclear
NOTTS IN OUR NAME
Occupy Nottingham fights on
FREE PUSSY RIOT
Russian avant-garde punk agitators Pussy Riot have been banged up.
HOWLING BLUNDER
The sustained insanity that is the Canadian tar sands exploitation has been turned up another notch this week – with a huge projected wolf cull.
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PUTIN: ELECTORAL GAMES
As candidates line up for Russia's presidential elections, Vladimir Putin uses every dirty trick in the book to stay in power
OCCU-BYE LONDON
Four and a half months after its conception, Occupy London was dealt two severe blows on Monday the 27th
BHOPAL: spied on by STRATFOR
SchNEWS interviews Bhopal activist spied on by corporate intelligence agency, Stratfor
safe crackers
Sussex police attempt to forcibly evict people from 'The World's Local Squat' but are thwarted by the number of supporters and the law.
BARN STORMED
A concerted effort by police and bailiffs saw the eviction of a barn occupied in protest against the building of the Hinkley C power station on Wednesday 29th Feb.
POUNDLAND AND FREEDOM
High street retailers pull out of Tory forced labour programme
PEACE ACTIVIST JAILED FOR AFGHAN WAR PROTEST
Maya Evans locked up for a week for refusing to pay court fines.
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GREECE: EU'RE IN TROUBLE
Caught between popular unrest and international arm-twisting, the Greek state has all but fallen into irrelevancy.
ENGLISH DEFENCE LEAGUE: IN FOR A HYDING?
  UPDATE Report from Anti-fascists in Hyde 25/02/12 After the disturbances in Rochdale, Asian youth turned out  to confront the EDL in Hyde. SchNEWS spoke to one anti-fascist who also made the trip.
FROM CALAIS TO KHARTOUM
French authorites start deporting to Sudan, and demonstration are held over Africa House eviction alert.
R.I.P Nikita Kalin
The price of anti-fascist and anarchist activism can sometimes be very high as we were painfully reminded a few days ago with the news that twenty year old Moscow anti-fascist Nikita Kalin (Никита Калин) had been found dead
No Borders please, we're British
A six day No Borders Convergence last week (13-18th Feb) saw activists causing a ruckus at various border regime targets around London.
WHEN PIGS CRY
French cops at la ZAD tear gassed as land occupation continues.
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ABORT MISSION
  Around the country, even in supposedly right-on Brighton, fundamentalist Christians have been harassing women outside abortion clinics.
manure gonna love this
Guerilla Gardening callout
BARNSTORMING
Activists squat a derelict farmhouse in protest against new nuclear.
TALKING NONCE SENSE
Far right groups attempt to get paedophiles off by nobbling the trial
A BRIDGWATER TOO FAR
Anti-nuclear tree protestors evicted
AMID GREEK WOES
Troika's directive leaves no room for compromise with the latest austerity package yet Greek citizens can't take any more.
DOMESTIC EXTREMIST DATABASE UNDER JUDICIAL REVIEW
John Catt, Brighton peace activist, takes the political police to court.
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Southern Squatting Shenanigans
A weeks of squatting in Brighton – evictions galore, flying radiators and vagabonds
Smashing Night At The 1in12
1 in 12 Club gets trashed by late night scallywags, just after costly repairs.
TROUBLED OVER BRIDGWATER
UPDATE: Tree sitters evicted this morning (Weds 8th Feb)  
LEICESTER PIGGED OUT
The English Defence League roadshow takes in Leicester
GIMME A SLICE OF THE ACTION
As IWW pickets take it away in search of a bigger pizza the pie.
FISH TALES
Underwater reports: Sea Shepherd offer $10,000 reward for sea lion killers. The trial of Cove guardian Erwin Vermeulen's is underway in Japan. ALF activists free tuna off the coast of Croatia.
KIDDIE PORN COP BUSTED
Nicholas White, press officer for NETCU (the UK's sinister police spy agency) guilty of possessing thousands of images of child porn
SLEEPER DISSERVICE
SchNEWS hunkers down and checks out how Brighton and Hove council implement national homeless policy
Occupy London Update
Occupy LSX is evolving with the times (or the court cases)
WILLING AND DISABLED
Affected by the Welfare Reform Bill? Take to the streets on the 28th for civil disobedience!
palestine at a glance
The Palestine-Israel conflict spills over into the cyber realm. Meanwhile a Palestinian woman from Hebron goes on hunger strike over settler attacks.
When in Romania...
Anti-government protests target the president as austerity bites
ACTA now
ACTA explained. A new proposed legislation joins the Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect IP Act.
Back in the Faslane
Faslane celebrates it's 30th birthday with a month of action
SOUTH SUDAN: INDEPENDENCE AND DEATH
120,000 people have become refugees and up to 3000 have been killed in recent fighting in South Sudan. Independence has done little to halt the violence in the Sudan region.
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TESCO VALUES?
Protesters picket Tesco in Israeli goods boycott action
Bulgarians shut the Frack up
Bulgaria: Wave of eco-activism stops fracking in its tracks
DEAD SETT?
We take a look at the forthcoming slaughter and find very little justification for it.
OCCUPY LSX: PITCHED BATTLE
The Occupy LSX camp has been ordered to leave Paternoster Square by the High Court
Gone to Ground
Crossover episode fun as Crawley and Horsham hunt joint master allows fracking on his land in Balcombe Sussex
EDL ROUTED IN WHITECHAPEL
English Defence League come unstuck in East London
Sea Shepherd
 Sea Shepherd and the Japanese fleet are in the Southern Ocean in their 8th annual showdown. Three Australian protesters are transferred to the Australian customs ACV Ocean Protector after gatecrashing the Shonan Maru 2.
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NOT IN MY FRACK YARD
Sleepy Sussex village becomes front line in UK fracking ban fight
NO OIL TAINTING
Shell to Sea keep on the pressure as woodland is cleared for gas pipeline.
WHAT'S THE CRAIC?
Irish activists move in to liberate government-owned empty buildings.
Clermont Ferrand In Flames
French citizens hit the streets after fatal police brutality and the attempt to conceal it.
HEAVY WEATHER
A depressive front-page settles as SchNEWS looks at the state of climate change
FLYING SAUCERS
On Wednesday 21st December Brighton squatters beat back bailiffs with a hail of crockery.
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PLANE SAILING
Sea Shepherd activists kit themselves out with a spy drone
GUNNING FOR GOLD
Britain prepares for its biggest peacetime military mobilisation of all time. Iran invasion imminent? Libya campaign part 2? Not quite...
FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY: THE END IS NYE...
Occupy Wall Street takes back Zuccotti Park to see in 2012
...AND JUSTICE FOR ALL
A squatted courthouse, a group calling itself 'Occupy Justice'- all of this will sound eerily familiar to oldtime SchNEWS hacks. Occupy London is going strong in three locations
BEAR NECESSITIES?
Russian state clampdown on dissident activists
SchNEWS Person of the Year
And the winner is...
TURNED UP TO 11... 2011
SchNEWS muses on the crazy year that was 2011 and prepares for impending doom in 2012
VEOLIA-NT UPHEAVAL
The Israeli boycott campaign (See SchNEWS 798) has struck again, as French multinational Veolia were thwarted in attempts to land a £485 million contract to provide waste treatment services in West London.
PUNK AND DISORDERLY
Across the globe punks take a stand over brutalization of their Indonesian comrades
EDL: Fash Mobbed
EDL leader cries wolf as he blames enhanced blackeye on Muslim hordes.
SONIC SCREW LOOSE
Global Spring creates new market for crowd suppression gizmos.
BOLLOCKS TO BORAT
Since December 16th, major clashes have erupted between the state and the oil workers of Zhanaozen, Kazakhstan.
MINSK SPIES
Three Ukrainian activists return home after being caught, abducted and abused by KGB security forces after taking part in a protest in Minsk, Belarus.
TEAR GAS FATALITY IN PALESTINE
A 28 year old Palestinian got shot in the face by a tear gas canister during a weekly Anarchists against the wall demonstration held in the village of Nabi Saleh. He died the next day.
OPERATION DIVINE WIND
The Sea Shepherd Crew set sail for the Southern Whale Sanctuary in the Antarctic. They are making a beeline for the Japanese whaling fleet which this year were given cash appropriated from Tsunami relief funding to help them, er, kill more whales.
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DALE FARM: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
It made global headlines but after an extremely expensive violent and destructive eviction what's happened to the travellers at Dale Farm?
OCCU-BYE BRIGHTON
Nearly two months after it began, Occupy Brighton has bowed out following a gale that blew most of the camp down.
'TIS THE SEASON TO BE EVICTED
Yes it's Christmas again and apparently the season of good will to all, unless you are a Traveller. For instead of celebrating the winter solstice and preparing for the Christmas festivities like the rest of the nation; travellers In Brighton, and around the country, are preparing to up sticks and find somewhere else to put their homes, as many sites face eviction only days before xmas.
TAR-RA FOR NOW
Tar Sands activists in Canada are celebrating a victory this week as the controversial (and snappily titled) Northern Gateway Tar Sands Pipeline Approval Process was delayed until at least the end of 2013.
CASAPOUND RUNS RIOT IN FOREIGN MARKET
On Tuesday 13th December, two Senegalese market traders – Samb Modou and Diop Mor – were shot dead and three more were injured when Gianluca Casseri, Italian fascist accountant and member of CasaPound, decided to vent his racism in the most brutal way possible.
A LOAD OF PONY
Today (Thursday 15th) marked the two month anniversary of the Occupy London movement, and not to be outdone by their American counterparts (see SchNEWS 797) the UK's own called for a day of action.
PUNK'S NO PICNIC
Heads shaved, shoved into lorries and transported to a police compound for a ten day boot-camp just for going to a gig. Who says punk's dead?
POWER TO THE PEOPLE'S CAFE
People's Cafe liberated space goes to court - who will win?
THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED (IF YOU'RE BLACK)
Deafening media silence following 143 arrests in Central London, as Congolese protest against rigged elections that bring Western-backed warlord Joseph Kabila to power
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TREACHEROUS WEATHERLEY
Hove Tory MP caught out telling whopper as he claims homelessness charity backs his anti-squatting campaign.
DIS-PUTIN' THE ELECTION
Russians rage over fraudulent elections
OCCUPY USA GETS CRACKING
The Occupy movement moves on to foreclosed homes
ISRAELIS STEAL ARAB SPRING
Weekly protest over illegal occupation in West Bank leads to clashes between protesters and the Israeli army. Two journalists arrested.
REMEMBER ALEXIS GRIGOROPOULOS
Greece roundup- Protests mark the 3rd anniversary of Alexis Grigoropoulos's death, yet another austerity package, 400 steel workers strike over unfair treatment.
IRAN AWAY
Neo-Cameron and  William "send him to the" Hague are feeling flush following an easy victory in Libya. Now they want to take on Iran for shits and giggles.
WHAT LESSONS LEARNT?
During last November's Brighton student protests, aka "Day X", a 15-year-old protester was assaulted and nicked by police. More than a year later, on Thursday (1st) he's been acquitted of all charges at Brighton Magistrates Court.
OFF THE SHELF
Greek anarchists re-appropriate supermarket goods off the shelves into the hands of pensioners.
Sab Land Rover Seized
Forty hunt sabs from around the south-east headed up to get on the case of the notorious Old Surrey and Burstow hunt near Tandridge in Surrey this Saturday (3rd). They were met with a heavy-handed police response – two arrests and the seizure of the South Down's groups vehicle.
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ONE STRIKE AND YOU'RE OUT?
Wednesday's N30 strikes saw 2 million public sector workers striking and hundreds of thousands marching in Britain's streets all over the country, marking the biggest strike in a generation.
ROGUE'S GALLERY
After Brighton University students waited until the coast was clear the N30 campus lockdown to occupy in protest in solidarity with the public sector workers, against the increase in fees and the fact that the VC made noises in opposition to the White Paper to please students and staff - and then signed a public letter to the government in support of fee increases. The uni is also targeted for their lack of transparency regarding links to dodgy private companies.
THE FOREST RECOMMISSION
The Forest Café (a volunteer run venue/cafe/arts space in Edinburgh) was forced to close back in August when the building's owners went bankrupt. It has now risen phoenix-like and been re-christened 'The Peoples' Café' as a over 100 people are now occupying the building.
GREENPEACE OF THE ACTION
The Department for Transport was blockaded by fifty Greenpeace activists and two immobilised cars on Monday (28th) to protest the UK government's determination to stick a spanner in the upcoming EU vote on tar sands
THOU SHALT NOTTS SQUAT
The Bigger Society Social Club opened its doors to the public of Lenton, Nottingham on Monday (28th) morning only to have them kicked in and closed a few hours later.
DEMOLITIONS CONTINUE IN PALESTINE
The Isreali bulldozers are still undertaking numerous demolitions in Palestine. In this week alone, four family homes, four Bedouin tents containing 40 people, a mosque, a public meeting house, a restaurant, a shop, a car wash, a bee farm owned by a women's co operative, a sheep farm, numerous barns, an irrigation pond and a plant nursery have all been smashed to pieces.
U-BOAT IF YOU WANT TO
In May the (now disgraced ex-) Minster for War, Liam Fox announced the Trident Alternatives Review, with much fanfare from the beard and sandal brigade. Unfortunately six months down the line and Liam Fox's replacement Philip Hammond has now stated that the review will not be made public because of the “highly classified technical, intelligence and policy information covering extremely sensitive national security issues”.
CITY BNP RABBIT SEX SHAME
While hanging around outside schools is probably quite familiar to the rank and file of the BNP – this time they had an excuse. Well kind of..
BACK ON THE FRACK
For the second time in a month, anti-fracking campaigners have targeted the proposed fracking site in Hesketh Bank, Lancashire. Rising Tide activists from Bristol made the long journey up north with their bikes and have stormed the rig, climbing on to drilling equipment and halting works.
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Nov 30: We're All In It Together
It’s been a long time coming... Wednesday 30th November will see the first mass strike in the UK for four decades. 17 unions, including the biggest ones Unite, UCU, Unison, various teaching unions and PCS, have balloted to strike on pension reform which will see an estimated 3 million off work and, hopefully, cause massive disruption...
Occupation Nation
Occupy LSX took a third space in London last week as a group from the camp liberated an abandoned three storey complex of four interlinked office blocks in Hackney.
Tarsand and Shame
Imports of oil from tar sands - the dirtiest, most expensive and most bat-shit crazy form of oil extraction around - looks like it may face a possible EU ban soon. That is unless unless Lewes MP Norman Baker can scupper it.
EDL: Merge from far right
In response to the EDL's increasingly ineffective mass action and a lack of political depth. EDL leader and former BNP activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon announces he is joining the mini-BNP British Freedom Party.
TAHRIR SQUARED
Violent clashes continue between Egyptian police and protesters in the latest round of resistance unfolding on the streets of Cairo. Tahrir Square, which since February has become a synonym for mass civil uprising, has again become the focal point for Egypt's ongoing revolution.
Smash EDOM
It turns out there's another UK-based company linked to the Israeli Occupation whose name starts with EDO...
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Factory Floored
A sad day for the Bristol squat scene as the long-running Factory social centre finally bit the dust in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
BNP: Union Jack Shit
Local anti-fascists were out and about around the South Coast this week as the BNP tried to rear their ugly mugs once again.
Cowa-Bunga Bunga
In the wake of Burlesquoni’s departure, strikes and protest have spread across Italy, against the economic crisis faced by yet another eurozone country.
Plato Smashing
More anti-austerity protests swept Greece on Thursday (17th) during the largest ever annual commemorative demonstration for the 38th anniversary of the student uprising of 1973. Ever since, it has been traditional to watch the fires burn bright around Athens, in places such as Exarcheia and Syntagma square. Since the events of 2008 this day has gone from merely rebellious to properly revolutionary.
State of The Occupation
The Occupy movements around the world are reaching crunch time this week after it kicks off in New York and London was served with an eviction notice from The City of London Corporation.
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Nov 9 Summed Up
Wednesday (9th) saw yet another demonstration against cuts to education and public services, this time organised by the National Campaign Against Fees & Cuts (NCAFC). So SchNEWS donned its best black hoody and attempted to infiltrate the ‘violent minority’. Much to our disappointment, by the end of the day, it was clear that the monopoly of violence was still very much in the hands of the state.
HIGH SEIZE
The Israel-Palestine conflict has been pretty high-tech this last week. After two boats, the Canadian Tahrir and the Irish Saoirse, were illegally captured in international waters by Israeli commandos, Anonymous shut down the IDF and Mossad websites.
REMEMBER, REMEMBER
Saturday 5th of November was not just the 406th anniversary of an attempt by a group of religious zealots to seize power, it was also the 10th anniversary of the death of activist Barry Horne...
TOUR OF DUTY
Smash EDO on tour...
R.I.P. MARK RIVERS
Brighton’s irreplaceable rabble-rouser, Mark Rivers, was heartbreakingly killed by a fire in his flat in the early hours of Sunday, 6th November.
Having a Field Day
Hunters continue to flout the law on hunting with dogs, and sabs continue to get in their way every week.
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DEDICATED FOLLOWERS OF FASCISM
On Saturday 29th October 2011 the English Defence League (EDL) paid their third visit to Birmingham. Previous excursions ended in running battles through the streets. The march was the EDL’s second big mobilisation this year, although not hyped as much as their September outing in Tower Hamlets...
SQUAT NEXT?
AS HOPES OF STOPPING LEGAL AID BILL REST ON A LORD’S PRAYER
EXTRAORDINAIRY PETITION
Over 100,000 people in Britain have now signed an official e-petition urging the government to put British detainee Babar Ahmad on trial in the UK, instead of extraditing him to the US.
BRING 'EM TO BOOK
Our mates at Corporate Watch have a done a book, snappily entitled “Targeting Israeli Apartheid: A Boycott Divestment and Sanctions Handbook”
HEARTS OF OAKLAND
Amongst all the violence this week, Occupy Oakland was the site of an assault on an Iraq veteren, Scott Olsen, by police on the 25th October. He was shot in the face with a gas canister that fractured his skull.
QUAKE UP CALL
Wednesday anti-fracking protesters held a “frack mob” outside the Shale Gas Environmental Summit’, whilst two of the more intrepid anti-frackers scaled a fracking shale gas rig in Lancashire, shutting it down.
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WOOD YOU BELIEVE IT
A local meeting of Worthing Planning Committee ended in shock and anger last Thursday (20th) as councillors controversially re-approved the building of 700 homes on land currently occupied by ancient forest, Titnore Woods.
EDL: BRUM FASH CLASH
The EDL are taking their roadshow back to Brum this week. SchNEWS assumes they’ll be hoping to avoid a re-run of their last two visits to the UK’s second largest city, which saw them chased round the town centre by Asian youth and anti-fascists.
POOR'S PAY REIGNED IN
There were muted celebrations from cleaners at Buckingham Palace last week as they won a pay rise from £6.45 to the princely sum of £7.50 per hour – still short of the London Living Wage of £8.30 they had been campaigning for.
I AM SPARKTACUS
The radical electricians block ‘the Sparks’ continued their campaign against sweeping pay-cuts across the industry with a march on Wednesday 26th.
SQUATTING: EMPTY PREMISES
On Wednesday (26th) the government published its response to the squatting consultation. While none of us were expecting anything sensible to come from a Tory government foaming at the mouth at the prospect of kicking an unpopular minority, the speed of the knee-jerk reaction and its implementation is beyond even our cynical predictions.
OCCUPY LONDON: LOOSE CANON FIRED
The resignation of the Canon of St Pauls, Dr Giles Fraser, has grabbed everyone’s attention. In his resignation statement regarding the Occupy LSX camp he explained that “I cannot support using violence to ask people to clear off the land.” No wonder this has caught the mainstream media by surprise - this must be the only time that City figure has resigned on principle.
RUN OF THE MILLBANK
The first national student and education workers demo since March last year is planned for Tuesday 9th November.
CUADRILLA THRILLER
The anti-fracking campaign is continues to gain momentum after the succesful Camp Frack back in September and recent earthquakes in Lancashire caused by Cuadrilla’s shale gas extraction.
DALE FARM: NOMADS LAND
Last Thursday (20th) after a month long struggle of battles and barricades, the Dale Farm residents and Camp Constant supporters walked off the site, leaving their homes to the bailiffs’ tools of destruction.