Encouraging news from Merseyside with the formation of a federation of anti-bedroom tax campaigns. The news article says: It’s been a slog but, after months of meetings and discussion, anti-bedroom tax groups across Merseyside met, on Sat 18th May, to conclusively set in place the Merseyside Anti-Bedroom Tax Federation.The federation is run by the members...
Just a quick c&p from an email, as it’s short notice… EDINBURGH SAYS NO TO GREECE AUSTERITY | CAN’T PAY WON’T PAY FRI 17th May 6.30pm, St. Augustine’s Church, George IV Bridge Hi , On June 11th, former Greek PM Georgios Papandreou will visit Edinburgh to speak at an elite conference. He is the...
Here’s some music to get you in the mood for tomorrow’s feminist labour unionism double bill. Northumbrian twee folk the Unthanks performing the Testimony of Patience Kershaw. The haunting lyrics are based on testimony to Ashley’s mines commission in the 19th century. Patience was a hurrier, pushing carts loaded with coal underground. Hard manual...
Glasgow University Academic, anarchist and wobbly Benjamin Franks was in Edinburgh this week giving a talk to the university anarchist society on Marxisms and Anarchisms: the beginnings and ends of the schism? I managed to sneak out of work a bit early and make it along and it was well worthwhile. The talk was...
Edinburgh Anarchist Federation brings you a double bill – two excellent films about workplace organising and feminism. For free. Delicious! Sunday 24th March, from 3pm, at ACE, 17 West Montgomery Place, Leith Silkwood Academy Award nominated movie showing the true, harrowing story of nuclear power worker and union organiser Karen Silkwood (Meryl Streep). Victimised...
Still trying to digest all of the interesting things said at Thursday’s two talks, never mind yesterday’s packed event on Belarus. There should be recordings of the SolFed and Anarchist Black Cross meetings available in the future, so I want here to draw out some of the politics implicit in Mark Fisher’s Slow Cancellation...
Hey, why not choose both? Thursday evening offers two talks at convenient intervals with cheap falafel to be found on the way between the two venues. First, at 5:15 there’s Mark Fisher “Blogger and Author of Capitalist Realism, Visiting Fellow at Goldsmiths, and contributor to The Guardian, Frieze, The New Statesman and Sight &...
A speaker all the way from Belarus will discuss the revitalisation of anarchism in the country and the extraordinary state repression they have suffered, with anarchists making up nearly a half of all ‘political’ prisoners. Find out how the Belarus Anarchist Black Cross (ABC) is supporting anarchist prisoners and what you can do to...
The Edinburgh Anarchist Federation will be hosting a discussion on community organising and solidarity networks with guest speakers from Edinburgh Private Tenants Action Group and Glasgow Solidarity Network. Edinburgh Private Tenant’s Action Group The Edinburgh Private Tenant’s Action Group have been campaigning around various issues, such as illegal letting agency fees (forcing the government...
Details of an anti-cuts meeting organised by Edinburgh East Save Our Services, this Thursday the 24th.