On Thursday 30th June education, public sector and civil service workers from four unions will go on strike over pensions and service cuts. In Edinburgh the workers at the forefront of this strike are Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) members working in job centres and government departments. The PCS have made it clear...
Monthly Archives: June 2011
The Commune, issue 23
The July 2011 issue of The Commune is now available at the Autonomous Centre Edinburgh. It features an article by Barcelona anarchists on the 15th May movement in Spain,and interview with some youth from Possilpark, Glasgow, on the introduction of a ‘dispersal zone’ order, as well as good articles on Egpyt, SlutWalks, Haiti, and...
The 2011 Rich List
Dick Place in the Grange is one of most expensive streets in Scotland, with house prices averaging £1.6m over the last four years. A bargain perhaps for some of Edinburgh’s super rich. Last month The Times released the 2011 Rich List. This showed that the wealthiest 1,000 in Britain are worth almost £400 billion....
Supporting the June 30th Strike in Edinburgh
Here’s a list of Scottish Government sites where there’s (maybe) going to be pickets on the morning of June 30th. Go down & show support. We’ll keep this page updated best we can. Also look at J30 Strike. Saughton House (SW Edinburgh) Broomhouse Road EH11 3XD OSM link: http://osm.org/go/evfIz0VV- St. Andrews House (City Centre)...
Anarchist Federation Statement on the June 30th Strikes
Nearly a million workers will be striking and demonstrating on June 30th- workers in education, the civil service and the London underground. This is a further sign of widespread anger within the working class at the package of austerity measures unleashed by the government. We have already had the student demonstration which ended with...
Political policing, or business as usual?
Arrests of those involved in anti-cuts campaigns, as well as the brutality of the police on recent demonstrations has grabbed the attention of the press. The behaviour of the police has been widely condemned by the left, some of whom accuse them of overstepping the mark with “political policing”. But we should not be...
Elmo the anarcho-syndicalist
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Spanish “Real Democracy” movement has reached Edinburgh
…and looks like it could inject energy and liveliness into local anti-cuts campaigns. Invite to demo this Sunday, 5pm at St Giles on the Mile: To Whom It May Concern, Following the international protests we have organised another concentration for this Sunday 5th in Saint Giles Cathedral (Royal Mile), at 5pm. We would like...