Over the xmas period a number of students and anti-cuts protesters will be shut away in prison.… Read More

Saturday 31st December, 4-6pm outside HMP Holloway Prison Parkhurst Road, N7 0NU, closest tube station Holloway Rd.… Read More

MARCH TO DOWNING STREET SW1A 2AA Starting point: Congolese (Dem) Embassy in London, the United Kingdom 45-47 Great Portland Street London W1W 7LT Nearest tube, Oxford Circus MOBILISE!… Read More

British Government@LSE public lecture [Details here] Date: Monday 16 January 2022 Time: 6.30-8pm Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building Speaker: Bernard Hogan-Howe Chair: Professor Paul Kelly The current commissioner of the Met and former chief constable of Merseyside Police will speak about his hopes and aspirations in relation to the future of policing in the capital.… Read More

“More than 140 people have been arrested at a protest in central London over the bitterly contested elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo” reports the Guardian, claiming that a ‘breakaway group started causing trouble, damaging property including cars and shops as well as threatening members of the public’.… Read More

The police are trying out some new toys for possible use on protesters, apparently: ‘The laser, resembling a rifle and known as an SMU 100, can dazzle and incapacitate targets up to 500m away with a wall of light up to three metres squared.… Read More

‘Yesterday, the National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts agreed to call for a national mobilisation on Birmingham campus if the university refuses to withdraw its injunction banning protest there.… Read More

An interesting article here: ‘…the physicality of protest is itself politically transformative, and radicalising – and its tactical antoganist, the kettle, provokes it further precisely through its demonstrative act of oppression.… Read More

Details here.… Read More

by Siân Ruddick, taken from here. [For tips on what to write/what to avoid see here and here] As the holiday season approaches, Socialist Worker asks readers to write to political prisoners and those who have suffered at the hands of the system.… Read More