#OnThisDay in London radical history: entire non-stop 24-hour anti-apartheid picket of South African embassy arrested, Trafalgar Square, 1989.
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#OnThisDay in London radical history: entire non-stop 24-hour anti-apartheid picket of South African embassy arrested, Trafalgar Square, 1989.
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#OnThisDay in London educational history, 1999: students occupy Camberwell Art College protesting lack of tutors, equipment, grants & hours of access.
More in our map/pamphlet
‘Rare Doings at Camberwell’
A radical history walk around London SE5:
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Continuing our short series of anti poll tax actions this week in London radical history, as councils meet to set local rate of poll tax & face mass community resistance:
#OnThisDay in London riotous history, 1990: local anti-poll tax demo erupts, Lambeth Town Hall, Brixton
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On International Women's Day let's remember the women of Barcelona 1936 who began an incipient sexual revolution against reaction but also against the attitudes of own male comrades who for all their utopian rhetoric were often as sexist as ever when home as is often the case around the world.
Happy birthday to Betty Boo. Here's a reminder of the time she rapped with Public Enemy in the McDonalds at Shepherd's Bush back in 1987 (look out for the unimpressed manager!)
#OnThisDay in radical herstory, 1971: International Women’s Day demonstrations return to London
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#OtD 1 Mar 1921 16,000 people met in Kronstadt, Russia, which passed a 15-point resolution condemning the new Bolshevik dictatorship and calling for all power to the soviets and freedom of press and assembly for workers and peasants stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8109...
#OnThisDay in London smashing herstory, 1912: suffragettes demolish 100s of West End windows in their sabotage campaign demanding the vote for women
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#OnThisDay in London secessionist history, 1970: 'Unilateral Declaration of Independence' on the Isle of Dogs, protesting council & govt failure to address decline & poverty
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#FallFriday Celebrating Rough Trade’s 50th birthday with The Fall’s first record for the company
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On the 145th anniversary of @lavanguardia.com, I spoke with @miquelmolina.bsky.social about the rise of a techno-authoritarian complex undermining press freedom, democratic accountability, and Europe’s sovereignty. Independent media and public digital infrastructure are essential to defend democracy
Here's another clip of Adrian Sherwood at the Barbican on Tuesday - a live dub of Horace Andy's Mr Bassie
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#OtD 18 Feb 1961 the first act of civil disobedience was taken by new anti-nuclear action group Committee of 100. Up to 6000 took part in a sit-down demonstration at the Ministry of Defence in London to coincide with the expected arrival of US warship stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8972...
Adrian Sherwood shaking the foundations of the Barbican last night. Bass by the legendary Doug Wimbish. Visuals by Peter Harris
Tonight's entertainment. Can't wait!
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#OnThisDay in London's rebel history: squatted houses in Wanstead - known as ‘Wanstonia’ evicted to make way for the building of the M11 motorway extension, 1994.
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#OnThisDay in London aeronautical herstory, 1909: Muriel Matters flies over the capital in a suffragette airship to distribute leaflets
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#OtD 15 Feb 2003 huge protests occurred around the world against war on Iraq, including 1.5 million on the streets of London: the biggest demonstration in UK history. But the war began regardless, teaching many that passive protest alone is not enough stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8665...
Lynne Segal recalls 1970s Islington as a feminist ecosystem: single mothers living collectively, women’s centres, childcare, squats, presses and strike support. Care and solidarity—then systematically attacked under Thatcher. howl-uk.org/islington-lo...
Every #spycops officer at the public inquiry seems worse than the last. We've reached the end of testimony of Jim Boyling who infiltrated Reclaim The Streets, deceived 3 women into relationships, fathering 2 kids with 1 of them. He's as unremorseful as he is repellent www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zJO...
#FallFriday The wit and wisdom of Mark E Smith
Breaking: on two counts, the High Court has ruled that the Labour government's proscription of the campaign group Palestine Action was unlawful – a win for its co-founder Huda Ammori, who sought a judicial review of the ban
Palestine Action have WON their judicial review in the High Court!
A massive victory for free speech, freedom of association and the right to protest.
A massive defeat for the draconian attempts by Keir Starmer's government to curtail our fundamental rights.
"The autonomous area known as Rojava...is facing an existential struggle. The Syrian administration in Damascus has initiated a military assault on the region in an effort to undermine its autonomy and bring it under central control."
Latest from @shaneburley.bsky.social.
Tuesday 2/10: May Day In The Time of Trump: The Road to Mass Action
Yesterday the Public Inquiry into Undercover Policing heard testimony from ‘Monica’, an activist in Reclaim the Streets in the 1990s, about RTS actions, & her intimate ‘relationship’ with #spycop Jim Boyling, then infiltrating RTS.
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Instant summary & analysis from the lunch break at the #spycops public inquiry's questioning of 'Monica', a Reclaim The Streets activist deceived into a relationship by undercover cop Jim Boyling. Tom Fowler discusses it with another RTS activist Jay Jordan
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Quick summary from the morning at the #spycops inquiry as it questions 'Monica', a Reclaim The Streets activist deceived into a relationship by officer Jim Boyling. @tombfowler.bsky.social discusses it with Kate Wilson who was also an RTS activist www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHC8...
