Glasgow Picket Against Adecco Supplying Strikebreakers at the ABB Factory Cordoba Spain Red and black flags waved as a dozen people from the Anarchist Federation, Industrial Workers of the World, the Scottish Socialist Party, the Solidarity Federation and other individuals took part in a picket of the Glasgow premises of Adecco for one hour...
Reflections on the fight for Edinburgh’s public services This was written by Alyson Macdonald, who has been heavily involved with the anti-privatisation campaign in Edinburgh. The council’s decision to keep services in-house is a rare victory, but this means fighting cuts and job losses put in place by the council instead of a private...
From Christie Books Farquhar’s Chronicles are folk history, bringing the changes that shook the political and social landscape of Spain (and the world) between 1918 and 1977 into the framework of a contemporary adult lifetime. They make a vexatious but fascinating story that explains the spirit and Idea that moved the selfless, generous, occasionally...
Earlier this month the membership list of the neo-Nazi political and cultural network, Blood and Honour, was anonymously hacked. A complete list of subscribers and their addresses was taken from a German Website was subsequently put on-line. Little more than 20 people in Scotland were on this list. Craig Lambie, Glenburn Ann Marie Lambie,...
The new Inverness group of the Anarchist Federation are holding their first event in February. The Inverness Anarchist Film Festival is taking place on Saturday, February 11th. It will take place at The Bike Shed, 23 Grant Street, Inverness The event is free or by donation. 10.15am – Anarchism in America 12.30pm – Lunch...
This article was submitted to national prison magazine Not Shut Up. The editor approved it for print but the Head of Education at HMP Wandsworth blocked its final publication. The winter is closing in but still the Arab Spring bursts through the concrete like some unstoppable rose, spreading seeds across the globe. Over there,...
A year in Egypt after the uprising. By anarcho-syndicalist journalist Jano Charbel The success of the 25 January uprising in toppling Hosni Mubarak was made possible by industrial actions in key sectors of the Egyptian economy, not exclusively by the popular occupations of Tahrir and other city squares. Starting on 7 February, a public...
Another Land Grab
Land expert Andy Wightman shows how property held by councils to protect it from redevelopment could be under threat. Wightman explains how a new Bill could see leases, with 100 years still to run, sold to the leaseholders for a nominal sum. Taken from Wightman’s Blog, Land Matters. The Land Registration Etc. (Scotland) Bill was introduced...
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