Over the weekend, fascist party Patriotic Alternative held a conference at the Stirk House Hotel[efn_note]CADDY, Paul – Director KAY, Helen Elizabeth – Director KAY, Christopher Michael Blunn – Secretary Correspondence address: Stirk House, Hotel & Restaurant, Gisburn, Clitheroe, Lancashire, BB7 4LJ https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/06687742/officers[/efn_note] in Lancashire BB7 4LJ. The hotel was warned about the booking by anti-fascist
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To live the impossible dream: an introduction to ACitN
Warren Draper delves into the thinking behind ambitious anarchist project A Commune in the North (ACitN). It would be hard for anyone who has been involved with anarchism, cooperatives or radical ecology over the last three decades not to have come across the legend that is LeedsCath. If you are a zine lover, you have
Lancashire: Activists Perform Lock-on at Preston New Road Fracking Site
In the early hours on Friday anti-fracking campaigners locked themselves onto the entrance of the Preston New Road fracking site in Lancashire. The well co-ordinated action was executed amid double security and the police present at the site at around 5am. Despite that activists managed to successfully block the site for hours, with the second lock-
Critical Mass sets off for Rolling Resistance
At the time of writing a large intrepid band of Critical Mass cyclists are partway through their day-long journey to lend support to anti-fracking protectors on Preston New Road, Lancashire. Beginning in central Manchester, the crew’s 45-mile journey to join Reclaim the Power‘s month-long Rolling Resistance campaign against Cuadrilla is winding its way through local
Second day of violence as Cuadrilla lashes out at anti-fracking protectors
As a blockade against fracking in Lancashire continues to block roads and hinder operations the gloves seem to have come off from gas mining firm Cuadrilla, with its security team being accused of attacking protectors for the second day running. Early reports from today’s anti-fracking protests at Preston New Road, Lancashire, suggesting that private security guards are injuring people who
Rolling Resistance against Lancs fracking kicks off with towering efforts
Reclaim the Power’s Rolling Resistance entered its second day today with Lancashire’s newest towers still standing and dozens of protectors holding the gates at anti-fracking flashpoint Preston New Road. The towers were put up at high speed on Friday night shortly before an open day drew hundreds of local supporters, helping to blockade the entrance
Swing sets and lock-ons: Fracking direct actions are kicking off
After a solid first day of blockading fracking suppliers at Carnforth in Lancashire with swings, a second eight-person lock-on at Preston New Road is keeping up the pressure on energy industry efforts to bring the dangerous and unpopular gas extraction method into mass production. The lock-on (pictured above) is aimed at disrupting efforts from frackers Caudrilla to build
Frack the system: The UK’s hydrocarbon threat
With the fracking industry poised to attempt its largest assault on communities across the country to date, and what would be its most significant advance in this country since 2011 if not resisted, it seems an appropriate time to take a look back at what has led to this threat we are facing and examine
Reclaim the Power: Cuadrilla’s assumption of victory is sheer arrogance
Among the many attempted fracking projects being pushed forward in Britain this year, Preston New Road has been a site of particularly strong resistance. Site owner Cuadrilla, run by a former BP executive and backed by private equity giant Riverstone Holdings, has repeatedly tried to railroad communities into accepting the imposition of dangerous gas mining