So yesterday’s demo is claimed to have had 20,000 people. This seems optimistic but it’s certainly the biggest in Edinburgh for a wee while. We had fun chatting to people — this wasn’t just the usual suspects (though they were out in force too) — from Aberdeen, South Lanarkshire and elsewhere. We even ended...
Monthly Archives: October 2010
Friday night pre-demo youtube playlist
Oi Polloi, "Fuck Everybody Who Voted Tory"; Crass, "Do They Owe Us A Living?"; Newtown Neurotics "Kick Out the Tories"
Sheridan Trial to fix budget deficit
Rumour reaches us that the ConDem government plan to make up the budget deficit by charging admission to the Tommy v Rosie sessions of the Sheridan perjury trial. Then next years’ budget deficit will be covered by an adaptation at the Edinburgh Fringe. It’s hoped that film rights and DVD sales will pay for...
Stuart Christie on Scots in the Spanish Civil War
Last year, Stuart Christie wrote this article for the Scottish Review of Books, a review of Chris Dolan’s An Anarchist’s Story: The Life of Ethel Macdonald and Daniel Gray’s Homage to Caledonia which covers the role of volunteer fighters (mostly Scots) in the Spanish Civil War. SRB is free from your local library, but...
Your soapbox feedback requested
The organizers of the recent Feminist Soapbox event are collating feedback about the event. (Beyond “it was fun”). Go to the EA-FK webpage to read more. Feminist Soapbox was a successful event packed with workshops, discussion spaces and activity!Saturday saw feminists come from all over to facilitate workshops, and the turnout was impressive, with...
Council privatisation waste company Veolia killed worker
Veolia, a private company linked with Council’s attempts to privatise services like waste collection have been fined for causing the death of a worker. Waste company Veolia has been fined £225,000 after a litter collector died in a collision between one of its vehicles and a lorry. Agency worker Damian Griffiths, 20, from Swanley,...
Scotland: One nation to scab them all?
Glasgow Herald reports that “Scotland is bidding to be the setting for the long-awaited film version of JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit, the producer has revealed.” This is after actors in New Zealand have called for an international boycott of the production. NZ anarchist organisation AWSM have a great article explaining what’s going on. Workers...
Official: A4e “universal failure”
A post at Libcom highlights a mostly-ignored parliamentary report on the “Welfare to Work” programme run by A4e and Reed. Its damning conclusion: The programme, which was implemented by private contractors led by A4e and Reed, “universally failed by considerable margins to meet their contractual targets for helping claimants.” The report describes how “private...
Cuts: It’s not all bad…
…at least Maggie Thatcher’s in hospital. Meet us at the demonstration this Saturday, 11am, Market Street (by the train station). http://thereisabetterway.org/
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