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Next month will ramp up campaign against prison expansions
February 5th: Part of a year-long campaign aimed at pressing the government to switch away from its plans to build several mega-prisons, March will see both a global day of solidarity with Kevan Thakrar and a month of activity.
Event invitation: All London Antifascist Assembly
February 1st: On the afternoon of 10th February, London Antifascist Assembly, with support from a number of other activist groups, will hold the first All London Antifascists Assembly.
London: Far-right bookfair cancelled after local pressure
January 26th: An event touted as the “bookfair of the right” has been cancelled the morning before it was due to take place, after activists pressed the venue over its hosting of a fascist-filled event on International Holocaust Memorial Day.
Emergency callout as government sneaks in megaprison consultation
January 25th: Yorkshire Campaign Against Prisons (YCAP) has caught the state slipping through a late-notice “consultation” over its massive new East Yorkshire project.
Police ‘extremism database’ ruled illegal by human rights court
January 24th: Campaigners have welcomed today’s victory by veteran peace campaigner John Catt against the misuse of personal data collected via police surveillance.
Hundreds turn out in solidarity with Russian anti-fascists
January 19th: Hundreds of people turned out today for a solidarity demo organised by a coalition of London groups in aid of Russian anti-fascists who have been facing a brutal wave of repression by the Kremlin — which saw four new arrests occur earlier today.
Squatter’s Digest: A hard-hitting start
January 19th: What a start to 2019 — some of the news that has kicked off the year has been so big it will already be familiar to many readers.
Conferences ditch UoL as lecturers show solidarity with cleaners’ struggle
January 18th: The University of London (UoL)’s dispute with IWGB members over bringing cleaning contracts back in-house ratcheted up a notch today as a major history conference dropped plans to hold the event at UoL’s Senate House in solidarity with an ongoing boycott.
IWW: Raids targeting couriers are indefensible
January 17th: The syndicalist union has hit out at recent Home Office focus on vulnerable casualised workers already heavily pressured by a new ‘substitution’ ploy from firms like Deliveroo.
Labour council threatens bin workers with Tory union laws
January 17th: Birmingham bin workers imposing a piss strike and work to rule over alleged secret no-strike payments made to members of the GMB union have been told they’ll now get redacted information on the scheme — but have also been threatened with Tory anti union laws by the Labour-run council.
