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Block Around The Clock opens anti-fracking festivities
June 28th: The first day of a major protector action against gas fracking near Blackpool kicked off yesterday with ska-robics, speeches and activities from a wide range of green campaigning groups.
Home Office addresses citizenship case after 18 years (and a 24-hour hungerstrike)
June 28th: The Kamil family had spent the previous five years being ignored or told they weren’t a priority until they made a scene by camping outside the Border and Immigration offices in Glasgow.
Abolitionist Futures – Fight Toxic Prisons Conference Report
June 25th: The first of series of reports from the 18th International Conference on Penal Abolition, based on the workshops and talks that took place over three days at Birkbeck university in London.
London: far-right meeting stopped by antifascists in Lewisham
June 14th: It’s been a bad couple of months for anti-fascism in London.
Block Around the Clock: days of direct action against the fracking industry
June 9th: Three major developments in the fight against fracking happened recently.
Gary Neville luxury development occupied by Persons Unknown
June 8th: Either you retire a hero, or you live long enough to become Nevillan, say squatters as they launch broadside against luxury apartments ousting working class families from Manchester.
Boots pharmacy workers kill the yellow union
June 6th: The 86.63% vote to de-recognise the Boots Pharmacists Association (BPA) ends six years of wrangling as anti-union bosses tried to avoid letting staff organise.
Protestors block road for more than 28 hours to stop work on access road of opencast site in County Durham
June 3rd: Protestors fighting against a new opencast coal mine in County Durham have blocked the road in a rolling resistance for more than 28 hours to prevent the mining company, Banks group, to finish building the access road.
Pickets as Cuadrilla attempts injunction to ban anti-frack blockades in Lancashire
June 1st: Environmental protectors picketed Manchester Civil Justice Centre yesterday against an attempt by gas fracking company Cuadrilla to impose the latest in a series of chilling injunctions against green direct action.
‘Kurdistan Place’ occupied in central London
May 28th: Kurdish youth and supporters, some linked to Plan C, have occupied a vacant building near Edgware Road.
