A member of the Bristol Care Workers Network reflects on their experiences organising in healthcare.
Case Study: Organising in a community mental health team
Tag: Bristol
Sister Uncut: A look at Bristol
Sisters Uncut in Bristol have been carrying out protests against cuts and closures.
Bristol Council and Camelot on back foot as property guardians fight for rights
Bristol Council’s decision to dive into the property guardianship game seems to be coming a cropper as several “guardians” have launched legal and direct action challenges demanding something be done about rat-infested and dangerous tenancies in its buildings.
Your guide to 2017 anarchist bookfairs in the British Isles
Every year the anarchist movement has its biggest get-together at the London Anarchist Bookfair at the end of October.
Homeless fight back against criminalisaton
Bristol City Council recently attempted to criminalise rough sleeping, camping, and even parking in public areas, with a sloppily-worded injunction.
Guest Post from Bristol IWW: VOYAGE TO THE 1970’S – OUR ENCOUNTER WITH A MACHO BOSS
This is a guest post from the Bristol branch of the IWW.
Recent Articles
Nantes: 4,000 on the streets for Bloquons Tout
French police directed the demonstration with flash grenades and tear gas ~ from Contre Attaque ~ Saturday, 13 September, a rainy day in Nantes.
Facing down the flagshaggers
To resist normalisation, we need enduring groundwork with attacked communities—and spaces for open strategising ~ Blade Runner ~ On Saturday 13 September, between 110,000 and 150,000 turned out in response to Tommy Robinson’s call, a mobilisation framed as a defence of “free speech” but saturated with white nationalist, Islamophobic and anti-migrant rhetoric.
London arms fair disruption: A stark contrast to mass arrests for Palestine
Well-coordinated direct action catches the police off guard, showing the power of secure and strategic organising ~ Kevin Blowe ~ On 9 September, at around 7.30 in the morning, an advance bloc of about 150 protesters, their faces covered, suddenly appeared by London City Hall in east London, near to where Britain’s largest arms fair,
Anarchist prisoner released from Belarus
The regime deported 52 political prisoners in exchange for sanctions relief ~ Nikita Ivansky ~ Anarchist Nikolai (Mikola) Dziadok was among 52 political prisoners released and deported from Belarus to Lithuania on 11 September, following negotiations between dictator Alexander Lukashenko and US envoy John Colae.
