The fallout from the TUC demonstration on March 26th, which saw the mass arrest of peaceful UK Uncut activists following the police’s failure to deal with the controversial black bloc earlier in the day, has lent added urgency to debates about the nature of networked activism, its limits and poten
There was a lively demo at Camden Council Town Hall last night to protest swingeing cuts to local jobs and services.
We may be seeing a new wave of university occupations in the run up to the big TUC march against cuts on March 26th.
Following a national day of action
I had the interesting experience of being treated like a well-meaning but fuzzy-headed utopian on Monday night when I spoke at Cambridge Labour party’s AGM about fighting the cuts.
The danger the student movement in the UK faces is of creating a new tier of leaders who, however well-intentioned, seek to manage the movement and end up sapping it of its power, radicalism and creativity.
The volcanic eruption of student anger and militancy in Britain over the last few months has blown the political space wide open, making a broad-based movement against austerity thinkable. Whether or not it can grow and ultimately succeed will depend on the next steps the movement takes.
I've said it before, but it really is more than a touch unpleasant having this institutionalised corruption at the centre of our public life.
Two days on from Wednesday’s student demo and debate over the storming of Millbank, the police’s response, the legitimacy of confrontational forms of direct action and protest, and what this means for the Coalition’s programme of cuts, is still raging.
A storyboard collection of pics, video and social media showing the November 10th protest against tuition fees and its aftermath.
The early announcement that Matthew Elliott, head of the radical right-wing group The TaxPayers’ Alliance, would be heading the “No” campaign, has led most mainstream commentators to the lazy assumption
Congratulations to openDemocracy author Clare Sambrook who has been named winner of the Paul Foot Award 2010 for her reports on the UK's shameful detention of asylum seekers' children.
I don't generally do patriotism and that sort of thing, but watching Vodafone stores being spontaneously shut down across the country on Saturday, in protest at the mobile phone giant dodging billions in tax, with the co-operation of HMRC, gave me more than a little frisson of pride.
