This Saturday 12th February there’s a ‘Northern Towns Rally Against the Cuts’ demo in Halifax called by Calderdale Joint Trades Unions. It starts at 10.30am at Halifax Town Hall car park with a march from there to the Piece Hall – for the usual speeches no doubt, telling us just how bad the cuts are.

While it’s good that something is happening and everyone who opposes the cuts should inde…

"Our political system protects and enriches a fantastically-wealthy elite, much of whose money is, as a result of their interesting tax and transfer arrangements, effectively stolen from poorer countries and poorer citizens of their own countries. Ours is a semi-criminal money-laundering economy, legitimised by the pomp of the Lord Mayor’s show and multiple layers of defence in government. Politic…

Library services are going to be massively reduced because of cuts. Libraries are not just spaces for books and nerds and silence. They are places for learning literacy and numeracy, for people to get internet access, for help with finding information on how to write a good job application, for children and their families to find confidence in reading and socailising, and a place to go read the pa…

London NoBorders has received information that the hotel company Arora International ( in form of their branchArora Management Services Limited) has started a second attempt to make money from the Home Office's deportation business.

The company plans to use the site of a residential school for children with behavioural and learning difficulties in Pease Pottage, Crawley, Sussex owned by the Arora…

Cairo, it wasn't. But at about a quarter to four last Saturday afternoon, on a crowded backstreet in central London, something happened outside the Egyptian embassy that deserves at least a footnote in the annals of protest history. A crowd of students weren't kettled.

In the context of recent British protests, this was a near-miracle. At each of the previous four major student protests in Lo…

We have received this account from an eye-witness in Manchester.

Police have abused ASBO legislation to obtain the personal details of anti-cuts demonstrators.

Manchester police ended a day of orderly rallies and breakout groups of protesters by abusing legislation on anti-social behaviour in order to extract the details of around a hundred protesters kettled in the city centre. Police do have …

Sukey is a security-conscious news, communications and logistics support service principally for use by demonstrators during demonstrations. It effectively displays real-time police and protest behaviour combining validated information sourced directly from protesters with direct feeds into Sukey combined with feeds from twitter, facebook, SMS, RSS and others. There is a smartphone application a…

Shannon Lucid, recounting what the two Russian cosmonauts told her every time they left the Mir space station for a spacewalk, 1996

Indymedia UK, one of the oldest Indymedia websites worldwide, will fork in two projects by the 1st of May 2011. A contentious point was IP monitoring by uk.indymedia.org which led to a fierce controversy ( [3] | [4] | [5] | [6] ). Both the British Indymedia website…

The official blog of the Cuts Cafe where regular updates and the like will be posted as the week progresses.

Also stay tuned to Northern Indymedia for breaking news and action alerts

Blog from the streets of cairo using one of the very few internet connections still available there after the government has shut down the internet.

Also includes a link to the @dancefromiraq twitter feed that has been providing regular updates as to the situation there during the uprising.

Five people from across the UK were arrested early today in connection with a spate of online attacks last month in support of the whistleblowers' site WikiLeaks.

Police said the five males, aged between 15 and 26, are being held after a series of arrests in the West Midlands, Northamptonshire, Hertfordshire, Surrey and London.

Three teenagers, aged 15, 16 and 19, were arrested in a series of co…

In the media’s coverage of climate change, are we really still stuck on square one of some ghastly board game?

Global warming was recognised as a hugely serious problem as far back as 1988 when the United Nations set up the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Since then the science has become more solid, more detailed, in fact irrefutable: the risk of dangerous climate change ha…

Following the publication of this schnews article, Indymedia London

would like to make it clear that it does not log, monitor or filter

the IP addresses of those who visit or publish on this website. The

hyperactive code that indymedia london and others [1,2] run on does

not have these facilities built into it.

The story published by schnews relates to the website found at

indymedia.org.uk only.



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Episode 74 was a busy one for us, so put on your listening hat(s) as we begin by hearing a discussion about resistance to GM and the plans for January's Stop GM gathering. Live in the studio we had two of the occupiers of the new Bloomsbury Freeskool, telling us about where they're at and their plans for the building.



Next us we had one of the many anti cuts updates from groups such as the IWW, UK…

Today's episode of Liberation Frequency features an interview with Jamie Heckert on the intersections between queer and anarchist theories. Jamie Heckert is a prolific independent scholar and researcher in sexualities. Deric Shannon interviewed him when he was in Edinburgh in March 2010 for the Political Studies Association conference.

(listener's note: scholarly but very accessible and impor…

Back from our holiday break us dissidents were still a little fuzzy headed but we managed to pull our heads out of our asses long enough to have functioning conversations with a fair few people. Ben, from UK Uncut, came into the studio and had a good long chat with us about ideas behind the campaign as well as looking at what the year ahead might have in store.

One of the defendants in the …

No one suspected Mark Kennedy was undercover when he joined environmental activists – but has he now switched sides? (probably not)

The stumbling progress of extreme porn case law continues with Newcastle magistrates dropping a charge of possessing a single image of extreme porn – because local police and prosecution appear to have lost the evidence.

The first clashes have occurred between Sea Shepherd volunteer activists and Japanese whalers in the Southern Ocean whale sanctuary bordering the Antarctic continent. For the first time in seven years of campaigning in the southern ocean Sea Shepherd have been able to locate the whaling fleet before whaling was able to begin.

Federal investigators have seized servers allegedly abused to launch a denial of service attack against PayPal earlier this month.

An affidavit obtained by the Smoking Gun contains testimony by federal agents convinced that systems at Texan hosting firm Tailor Made Services are likely to contain clues in the hunt for hacktivists who launched an attack against PayPal in response to its decisio…

Ok wonderful people, the site that is mentioned in this article has been built by myself and a couple of friends. The aim is to try and set up a central forum whereby everyone from all over the country can come together and discuss topics ranging from the ongoing fight against public sector cuts, to the more bizarre stuff that goes on in our everyday lives. The forum is almost finished, but the fi…

Microsoft has warned any NHS worker who took advantage of the huge discounts available for installing MS Office at home that they must now delete the software.

The NHS used to buy its software from Microsoft as part of an Enterprise Agreement. One of the advantages of this purchasing procedure, apart from costing less, was that NHS nurses and doctors or other staff could buy a copy of Micros…

The United Nations has responded to the ongoing WikiLeaks kerfuffle, urging member states to – ahem – remember the basic human right to access information held by governments and other public authorities.

In issuing a joint statement on Wikileaks with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the United Nations (UN) special rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression does not men…

An awesome end of year show featuring an interview with Michael Albert on participatory economics, chats with the Green and Black Cross, news from the recent Ratcliffe Trial, debates about Alternative Media and the Anti-Cuts Demos, a Hot Topic on benefits cuts, a D*I DJ set featuring our favourite craptastic 80s tracks and much much more. Download it now!

The Okasional Cafe is a squatted cafe space currently situated 3 mins walk from Picadilly Gardens in Manchester City Centre.



The cafe runs from 3rd-21st december

Workers at the Heinz factory in Wigan stopped work on Wednesday, leading to the production of an estimated 2 million fewer cans of beans and other foods. They are striking against a below-inflation pay offer, which has been combined with attacks on sick pay and changes to the bonus scheme. 



91.4% of the Unite union members at the Kitt Green factory had voted for strike action, despite Unite negoti…

WHILE it is not, as some have called it, the "first great cyberwar", the digital conflict over information sparked by WikiLeaks amounts to the greatest incursion of the online world into the real one yet seen.

In response to the taking down of the WikiLeaks website after it released details of secret diplomatic cables, a leaderless army of activists has gone on the offensive. It might not have st…

The University of Salford is suing a former lecturer for allegedly publishing a satirical publication in what he describes as an attempt to “silence opposition” to its policies. The action could have serious implications for bloggers using Wordpress, after the Californian webhosting company passed on personally-identifying information.

Twenty climate activists who planned to shut down one of Britain’s most polluting power stations for a week were found guilty of conspiracy to commit aggravated trespass today.

Check out the 71st edition of Dissident Island Radio...

• London Rising Tide on Buy Nothing Day
• Anja's piece on the current massive student movement protests
• Sali from the ZAD campaign near Nantes, France, to stop an airport in their region
• Radical Childcare Collective in the US Bay Area
• Anarcha-feminist critical analysis from marchers during the Reclaim the Night 2010
• The Santa Belles discu…