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Tag: Birmingham
Activists target Elbit accountants and investors
Edwards and JP Morgan offices defaced with paint, windows smashed ~ Cristina Sykes ~ Palestine Action says its activists targeted Edwards Accountan…
Birmingham Uni bosses preferred court to dialogue with solidarity camp
In our third article from Palestine solidarity campers, the the Student and Staff Encampment Coalition write about their two months at the Univerit…
Charity workers in Birmingham join December’s Calendar of Chaos
Workers at the Asylum Support and Immigration Resource Team (ASIRT) charity in Birmingham have announced they will take strike action on 21 Decembe…
Save ASIRT: Asylum seeker legal support charity threatened with closure
A charity who provides free legal advice to asylum seekers in Birmingham and the West Midlands is closing down, despite being financially healthy.
Palestine Action occupy Acronic factory in Birmingham in solidarity with Grenfell and Palestine
On Monday morning, Palestine Action activists returned to the Arconic factory in Birmingham.
Food, poverty, mutual aid: Reflections from Birmingham solidarity kitchen
According to a recent report by The Food Foundation, 1.5 million people have reported going an entire day without food due to poverty during the co…
Labour council threatens bin workers with Tory union laws
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 to…
On the inhumanity and alienation of professional detachment
A Plan C member writes about their experiences as a domestic violence worker, and the alienation a culture of “professionalism” and Sta…
Solidarity and Empathy in the Summer of 2017
The idea that we are in competition with each other for resources is perhaps the most corrosive myth we’ve created.
Whose University? Police brutality used during a peaceful protest at Warwick Uni.
On Wednesday 3rd December, students making up the contingent of Warwick For Free Education (@warwickfreeed) amassed a crowd of 30-40 students outsi…
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Notes from the US: Sadistic idiocy
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Dissident Russian artist murdered in Poland
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Lament for a lost revolution
A century since the General Strike of 1926 ~ punkacademic ~ In the opening week of May 1926, Britain had its first, last, and only General Strike.
