Around 30 York residents assembled at the city's Parliament Street Fountain, on the busy "Residents Weekend", to call for Haiti's debt to be cancelled and to denounce the imperialism and distaster-capitalism that have marred aid efforts so far, and threaten Haiti with centuries more suffering. Over a hundred passers by signed petitions, and the protest received local media coverage, raising the ne…

A demonstration is currently underway at the headquarters of B&K Universal in Hull, which is a company that specialises in breeding animals for laboratory research. Most notably, they are the chief supplier of animals for the widely targeted vivisection laboratory, Huntingdon Life Sciences in Cambridgeshire.

The demonstration has attracted activists from across the North of England and beyond. Th…

Leeds University is facing 700 job cuts and the UCU is balloting on strike action.  The University is cutting £35 million of spending of which 60% will be from staff cuts.  It gets £30.8 million in tuition fees.  The Leeds student union, LUU are against the strike and have not come out against the job cuts.

A planning application for a biofuel power station in Barnsley which had been withdrawn has now been resubmitted.

Following the violence, vandalism and arrests in Stoke yesterday the EDL have very mixed feelings about what happened. Despite a strong turnout the trouble has created a lot of bad publicity and schisms amongst supporters. However, there are also serious lessons for anti-fascists.  

After seven months of occupying woodlands in South Lanarkshire the Mainshill Solidarity Camp is preparing for an eviction on Monday the 25th. The camp called a pre-eviction gathering after receiving a tip-off.

They are calling for people to come to the site and prepare to resist the forced removal by the notorious National Eviction Team, who visited the site late last year. The land they are occu…

 The English Defence League is holding a demo in Stoke today which, whilst inevitably causing disruption, will get support from the Stoke football firm the Naughty 40 and associated hooligans, unaffiliated youths looking for trouble and BNP supporters in one of their key areas.  

Leeds residents are celebrating after Leeds City Council voted to cut city-wide carbon emissions 40% by 2020.

Mainshill Solidarity Camp, Lanarkshire, has recieved a reliable tip-off that the site will be evicted on Monday the 25th of January.

The NF have made another gaff and the infighting continues on the far right.

The 11 prison year sentence passed down to BNP bomber Terence Gavan, the ongoing Aryan Strike Force trial, the ructions in Stoke council group and the general election fallout, and the forthcoming EDL demo means continued strife for the BNP and far right groups.

the BNP is facing a financially tough general election and now the NF & UKIP could split their vote.

Islam4UK will be a proscribed organisation on thursday following their attempted Wootton Bassett protest.

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Two more reports from the GAZA convoy people, one from Code pink in the USA, including a copy of the CAIRO DECLARATION, January 1, 2010.......End Israeli Apartheid, a new organising venture.

And now the threat comes from the Egyptian government, now that it become abundantly clear that the plight of the Palestinians is as much the fault of…

Background to the ending of the recent Gaza relief convoy, illustrating the actions of the Egyptian government, in its attempts to dissuade people from any thoughts of further convoys, which undoubtedly there will be. With proof again of the complicity of governments surrounding Palestine in support of the Israeli state. Also fully illustrates the determination of the people on the convoy to do al…

IMPORTANT CAMPAIGN UPDATE AND DEVELOPMENTS FROM STOP ANIMAL EXPERIMENTS AT BRADFORD

The Earth First! Winter moot is an opportunity for people who feel affiliation with the ideas behind Earth First! to network, discuss and reflect on the UK ecological direct action movement and to plan for the future. Earth First! is about direct action to halt the destruction of the Earth. We believe we can make a real difference by doing it ourselves rather than relying on leaders, governments o…

The recent announcement by Islam4UK for a demonstration at Wootton Bassett has caused the intended media flap and reactions from many sides and the far right are about to capitalise on it.

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The New Year on the far right will of course start with the usual mix of optimism, hangover and delusion but it will certainly be interesting as it continues to fragment and feud between pro- and anti-Griffinite BNPers, the ‘reinvigorated' NF and the EDL as the election looms.

 With the convictions of Nazi duo Shepperd and Whittle and the recent arrests of other Nazis over web content, the legal implications are going to cause problems for the far right.

 Eddie Morrison has pulled off a coup in the NF but why? Is to split the BNP vote, wreck the NF, for  money, ego or more nefarious reasons?

Anti-militarist campaigners from across the Northwest will be holding a 22 day long protest against Chadderton-based weapons component manufacturer Brimar from December 27.

So this is Christmas and what have you done? Well, despite wanting to ‘stop Islamic Extremism’ which they do not seem to have done, the English Defence League have managed to ring up a huge police bill, had many arrests, got their mugs on Sky News and, well, that’s it.

Health professionals demonstrated outside the Leeds General Infirmary at on the last day of Copenhagen climate change talks to stress huge negative impacts on global health if agreement is not reached.

Arthur Kemp, the third highest-ranking member of the British National Party, is accused of years of unspeakable, sadistic abuse of his children, according to an interview with his family published earlier this month in the United States.

Yorkshire and Humber's unelected assembly wants to hasten the day when Leeds is a port on an inland sea. They must be stopped!

To mark International Animal Rights Day 2009, activists across the country held demonstrations and vigils in their towns to draw attention to animal abuse and suffering.



In Bradford, anti-vivisectionists held a noisy and visual demo at the University of Bradford to draw attention to their ongoing animal testing programme which has become under growing pressure to stop.



At the University of Leeds, a …

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West Yorkshire Animal Rights (WYAR) are currently demonstrating outside the Richmond building, near the entrance, at the University of Bradford.

Students have joined hundreds of other activists from across Britain and the world to take part in the blockade-busting Viva Palestina Convoy.