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Sabotage and downpours greet a “grandiose” Olympics
July 26th: The authorities decided on a unique opening ceremony in the open air, and maximum security with all the police in the world — both are getting pissed on Hours before the start of the Olympic Games, coordinated acts of sabotage targeted several high-speed lines in France during the night, disrupting all traffic and immobilising 800,000
Naples walkway collapse: Evacuees set up aid points, occupy local University
July 24th: For decades residents have campaigned for fair housing solutions
France: Thousands protest ‘mega-basin’ reservoir expansion
July 23rd: Struggle against hoarding of water by agro-industry sees five days of action, culminating in a 10,000-strong march on the commercial port of La Rochelle
Insurrection in Bangladesh
July 22nd: Lethal repression of student protests triggers widespread revolt against political quotas and authoritarianism
Palestine Action invade and damage two Elbit suppliers
July 22nd: Component manufacturers Dean Group International and Ametek Airtechnology targeted for involvement with Israeli arms company
Report from Black Lives Matter UK Festival of Collective Liberation
July 18th: Sudanese, Congolese and Palestinian speakers drew links between war, corporate power and colonialism
Spain: Supreme Court confirms CNT unionists’ prison sentences
July 18th: The Suiza 6 face three and a half years each for protesting outside their workplace
Undercover Inquiry: Prejudice and propaganda
July 16th: Infiltrating Freedom gave MI5 a trove of 80s trivia; for the future Met spy chief, it was a racy adventure
Spycops Inquiry to hear evidence of Freedom infiltration
July 8th: Undercover Roger Pearce -- later head of the Special Demonstration Squad -- attempted to link anarchist paper to Northern Irish republicans in the 1980s
Paris Olympics protests: “A concrete mixer for tourists and speculation”
July 3rd: With the Paris Olympics heralding urban exclusion and a hike in surveillance, disruption and protests mark the passage of the Olympic flame through France
