Red paint and “Drop Elbit” graffiti sprayed in coordinated actions against insurance firm ~ Cristina Sykes ~ Palestine Action says its activists have paint-targeted 10 offices of Allianz, the world’s largest insurance firm, to demand the company stop insuring and investing in Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems. Activists covered the premises in paint and messages
Palestine Action says its activists this morning again blockaded the Instro Precision Elbit factory in Kent, obstructing entrances with vehicles and climbing on security boxes and the ledge of Discovery Park House. The site, manufacturing sights and target acquisition products for the Israeli military, was previously entered and damaged in June. The premises, at Sandwich’s
Palestine Action activists targeted two companies yesterday with links to Israeli arms firm Elbit, as the group continued to target supply chains contributing to the war on Gaza. Machine tools automation company Hydrafeed and aviation pacaking specialist Kite work with Elbit weapons factory, Instro Precision, in Kent. Their business relationship with the Israeli arms maker
The law firm is the fifth company to end associations with the Israeli weapons maker in recent months.
Solvay Wrexham manufactures components for Elbit’s Hermes 450 drones.
Direct action has again halted production at Instro, a subsidiary of Israel’s largest weapons company, Elbit Systems, preventing all entry.
U-TacS is majority owned by Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest arms manufacturer, and partially owned by French arms company Thales.
ADS Group, Avnet, and EBV Elektronik all profit from working with Israel’s largest weapons firm, Elbit Systems.
High Peak Steels regularly delivers steel to Elbit’s UAV Engines factory in Shenstone.
Four Somerset residents are taking direct action at Somerset Council’s County Hall building at The Crescent, Taunton, TA1 4DY.
France declares curfew as second overseas territory erupts with protests over failing services and high cost of living ~ From Contre Attaque ~ A brand new gendarmerie barracks was completely burned down in Martinique on October 9, and yesterday the island’s airport that was invaded by protesters, preventing planes from landing.
The Middle East war joins Ukraine as a permanent site of conflict, the new model for superpower dominance in the age of collapse ~ Blade Runner ~ In just one year, the devastation has been staggering: since Hamas massacred 1,200 Israelis, Israel’s military onslaught has retaliated thirty-fold, with over 41,000 Palestinians killed, including 13,000 children
The latest piece of legislation unveiled by our government emerges not as a beacon of hope, but as a harbinger of betrayal ~ Mark McEwan ~ As the sun rises each day over the grey skies of the United Kingdom, we find ourselves staring into the abyss of a systemic failure that has plagued workers
I was trapped in Leninism and read swathes of Lenin’s rhetoric – now I know the anarchists were right all along ~ Killian Flynn ~ Amongst the shadow puppets of English radicalism, lie inert various guises of Leninism: self-perpetuating central committees run tiny irrelevant organisations and use them as a vector to punt their books
From green consumerism to degrowth and radical systemic change ~ Yavor Tarinski ~ It is a good thing that there is increasingly more talk about the looming catastrophe that threatens our societies because of climate change and deepening ecological crises.
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