The Refinery Strikes – Against Capital Not Fellow Workers!

The current wave of strikes that have spread around the country are being portrayed by some as british workers resisting against an influx of foriegn labour. The unions themselves, unsurprisingly, are also peddling this nationalist line and the BNP are, like the parasites they are, trying to further racialise this strike.

Here’s what is being said about the strike on Libcom.org

January Reshuffle

The January Reshuffle is a grass roots community organising event organised by the folks over at the awesome City Strolls website. It’s a chance for individuals and groups from all over the city to come together and see what we can offer one another and how we can work together to make our city a better place to be.

An Anarcho-Punk Trailer-Park Kid And A Couple Of Muslim Extremists Want To Have A Word With You

Chris Arendt grew up in a trailer at the end of a dirt road in the middle of a rural Michigan cornfield. At the moment he’s on a road-trip around Britain in the company of Moazzam Begg, from Birmingham UK and Omar Deghayes, a refugee from Libya with family in Brighton. The three of them will be speaking at public meetings in Glasgow and Edinburgh on Friday 30 January and Saturday 31 January.

Rioting In Iceland Over Bank Bailout

Icelands Parliament comes back after its winter hiatus to angry crowds in what is Icelands largest expression of public anger since the country joined NATO in 1949.

Round 2 of “British banks being battered”, get the popcorn in

I got this graph sent to me from inside RBS (they don’t have so much do to now that there’s no money left for them to count). Speaks for itself, really. Where did all that money go? Did it ever really exist?

"Market capitalisation" of various banks, now and 2 years ago

Property is theft! Proudhon 200 years on

200 years of Proudhon

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon is reckoned to be the first person to claim for himself the label of “anarchist” and yesterday was the 200th anniversary of his birth. His most famous statement was, of course, property is theft, still at the heart of anarchist economics but frequently misunderstood.

“Property” in this sense doesn’t refer to “personal property” – your clothes, your bike – which a person uses frequently. The property is theft type of property is your buy-to-let, landlordist, “location location location” type of property: the type of property, frequently housing, that is held by someone in order to stop someone else from using it (unless they pay you rent or some other condition).

Edinburgh Fundraiser For Those Arrested In Greece

The 6th of December, the day when 15 year-old Alexis Grigoropoulos was shot dead by police without provocation, marked the beginning of a social uprising in Greece. His unlawful killing quickly became a symbol for the peoples disquiet with political corruption and media manipulation and propaganda. Hundreds of thousands of people flooded the streets to protest and actively reclaim a better social, political and economic system that is based on humans’ basic rights of freedom and wellbeing and not capital or profit. 

“Fuck me you look like an inbred”

OK, hardly a revelation but how could we pass up the opportunity to have a pop at Prince Harry? Not content with Nazi fantasies (takes after his great-great Granddad*?), he’s adopting the attitudes as well, being caught making homophobic and racist remarks. Which is hardly surprising, given the obvious relish with which he enjoys playing soldiers, putting military workers at greater risk. But it’d be wrong to single out one bad apple; this is a thoroughly rotten barrel of upper-class bastards.

Remember, show your betters the respect they deserve.

Taxi for Mr Saxe-Coburg

* – or whatever

St Pauli Supporters Club Fundraiser

The brand new Glasgow St.Pauli Supporters Club will hold a foundation and fundraising party & concert.
In addition a raffle is being organised with all money going into social projects in St.Pauli and Glasgow.

Gaza demos in next couple of days – Edinburgh and Glasgow