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...
Article taken from Malatesta’s blog. It’s All Fall-Out With The Infidels! One of the continuing difficulties faced by the far right is their complete inability to agree on anything for very long. Massive fallouts and accusations of ‘grass’ and ‘backstabbing’ (with the occasional ‘nonce’ thrown in) are frequent on their internet forums and it...
This interview was published in Back2Front, issue #6 Back2Front: To kick things off, can you say something regarding the beginnings of the Anarchist (Communist) Federation? Declan: The Anarchist Communist Federation emerged in the period directly after the Miners’ Strike of 1984-1985 and in the middle of the Wapping printworkers dispute. Originally, a couple of...
Tenants and Residents in Pilton have initiated a campaign to save the Muirhouse shops from closure. Were these businesses to close many local people in the West Pilton, West Granton, and Muirhouse area would lose their local shops which they rely on. There are many vulnerable residents in this area who may be unable...
Article from Irish Anarchist Review, Issue 4, October 2011 Over the past three years Ireland has witnessed unprecedented austerity. An aspect that has surprised many people has been the limited and at best sporadic resistance to what has been a savage cut in people’s standards of living. Politicians and the media have on many occasions...
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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