Community activist groups can be a significant force in local politics, as experiences in both Haringey and Tower Hamlets show.
Solidarity at the doorstep
Tag: community organising
They started the revolution without you… but you are welcome to join in
Easter weekend I was transported to a vision of the future.
Haringey Solidarity Group: A Celebration of 30 years of radical ideas and campaigning in Haringey and beyond
May 11th 2021 was the 30th anniversary of the Haringey Solidarity Group in North London.
Northumberland: Alnwick Community Larder forced to close following ‘vandalism’ allegation
Alnwick is a town of around 8,000 people in north Northumberland.
Crops NOT Shops: Growing the Mutual Millennium
Last month I suggested that there was good reason to believe that we were witnessing the birth of the ‘mutual millennium’.
Save Sinjajevina: Herders and activists protect unique Montenegrin pastures from military occupation
After a mobile blockade lasting almost two months, a small group of traditional herders and activists has successfully repelled NATO and the Monten…
Don’t despair, organise!: Affinity Collective
Immense urban belts are encroaching unrelentingly on the countryside, replacing flora and fauna with concrete, metal and glass, and enveloping larg…
Poland: Anarchists successfully stop allotment gardens eviction
Anarchists from Rozbrat squat in Poznań, together with other groups, have successfully stopped the eviction of neighbouring allotment gardens R…
Shunning Treesponsibility: South Yorkshire still a dangerous place… if you’re a tree!
Learning absolutely nothing from the 8-year-long Sheffield Tree Felling Protests, South Yorkshire’s Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council (D…
From Mutual Aid to Food Co-ops
It has been almost a year since Cooperation Town came into being.
Don’t despair, organise!: Reading Red Kitchen
Like many homeless people during the lockdown, asylum-seeking migrants are being bundled into cramped hotels.
Don’t Despair, Organise! An introduction to the (yet-unnamed) confederation of Solidarity Funds
The following text was contributed to Freedom by a person involved in Goose Green Solidarity Fund: a newly formed organisation for people who live …
Beet & Two Veg: Grow Your Own Emancipation
Looking at some of the mainstream vegan publications and some of the more high profile social media superstars, you would be forgiven for thinking …
Mutual Aid in London: A Cautionary Tale
At the onset of the COVID-19 crisis, I was heartened to see a network of mutual aid groups springing up, mostly autonomously, around the country.
Don’t despair, organise!: an introduction to Cooperation Kentish Town
By 21 December, a week after a disastrous election for the left and a few days into the subsequent soul searching, everyone was suddenly talking ab…
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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.
