Revolt of the Ravers is a key article about the Movement against the Criminal Justice Act in Britain 1993-1995.

Upon their arrival in the English capital, delegates were set the ‘psychogeographical’ task of locating the British Sailors Society, where the conference was to be held. The following r…

Support a Bristol antifascist facing charges for resisting far right attacks

U-Roy recorded with so many producers for so many labels over five decades, and as a result his tracks are scattered over countless albums and compilations. This playlist brings together 20 great mome...

“Dulwich College, the famous school in the southern suburb of London, was set on fire in two places at an early hour this morning, and suffragette literature pinned to trees in the neighbourh…

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The outbreak of the English Civil War in 1642 came after several years of conflict between king Charles I and a growing number of his subjects, over numerous disputes – freedom religion versus incr…

Saving Tooting's Commons After a struggle lasting a number of years, an attempt to enclose and build over a large part of Tooting’s Commons was defeated in 1871, when a court blocked the enclosures. Over the next four years later the Commons were bought for the public. But the road by which public access for this lovely open space was saved was rocky and involved some skullduggery, sabotage and tangled legal negotiations… What is now known as Tooting Common consists of two older commons, 144-acre Tooting Bec Common and 63-acre Tooting Graveney Common.

Photo Credit (main phot0): Alan Lodge After its first big shindig in Camden High Street had hit the news with a bang in May 1995, the second London Reclaim the Streets party was held on Sunday, Jul…

On July 20, 2001, during the G8 summit in Genoa, a police officer killed a 23-year-old demonstrator named Carlo Giuliani. Carlo could have been any of us.

“Before this time the inhabitants of the towns about London, ‘Iseldon’, Hoxton, Shoresditch, and others, had so inclosed the common fields with hedges and ditches, that neither the young men of the…

I was almost killed at the Diaz School raid---now I am returning as the Mayor's guest of honour

As mass protests rock the USA against racist police killings… And thousands march in Brixton in solidarity… We remember events there nearly 40 years ago today. Police violence continues…

Apparently the ministers of interior of the german federal states are urging the minister of interior of germany to outlaw de.indymedia.org. This isn't law yet. German indymedia’s statement is below...

The world-renowned academic institution has nothing to say in response to a six-month investigation by Byline Times raising serious concerns about the safeguarding of students and foreign influence at...

“Britain is a paradoxically closed yet ‘open’ society ruled over by a patrician but condescendingly populist elite possessing the most remarkable cunning and duplicity well versed in a …

What later became known as Ham Common may have originated as a grant of land to the manor of Ham, in compensation for parish lands enclosed by king Charles I to create Richmond Park in 1637. Ham Co…

An already broad law is now matched with broad ministerial powers