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A RESOURCE FOR DISCONTE NTED WORKER t\ It doesn’t seem like workers; three comrades from Egypt talking about I2 months since the the situation in Egypt and the wider region; Darcus last London Anarchist Howe on the riots; a meeting on what we mean by Bookfair, but they say Class Struggle; and an introduction to time goes faster for those new to the theory. when you’re having The venue will be running a café all day, and hot I fun. The I2 months food (including vegan) will be on sale there may have gone fast between I2 and 4. Turn left out of the venue and but there has been 21 it's about 50 yards on your left. Room l.0I is set lot going on. First the aside as a quiet space and is near the cinema, .. students reminded cabaret and two kids spaces. lndymedia and some of us how it’s done with the occupation of Dissident Island Radio will again have a small studio Millbank, and then kept ahead of the game with and will be interviewing people about this year’s imaginative ways of staying out of “kettles”. Then Bookfair. There will also be a I9 strong French there was the biggest the UK has anarchist brass band - Les judas - playing around probably ever seen on the March 26th anti cuts the venue! demo. Love ‘em or hate ‘em, it was the most Finally, something else new. Footprint, the radical organ’sed Black Bloc I have ever seen. There were workers’ co-operative printers from Leeds, will be . . . . .I_I riots in Bristol and then the summer riots, starti 8 bringing their machinery and making a zine on the in Tottenham because of the killing of yet another day, written by Bookfair punters and stall holders. black man by the Met Police. Outside the UK It's something they've done at zine fairs elsewhere there have been rebellions (some would say to great acclaim, and with the eclectic range of ) in many Arab countries. Quite a full on brains coming through the Bookfair’s doors, our year really, so a lot to chat about. one’s bound to be a corker. Take a sheet of A5 We know we ain t as exciting as taking action, but paper to their stall in room I08 before 3pm and lecture every now and then we have to sit down, discus5, it'll go in a ragbag ideas-collage of a pamphlet and try and work out the best way forward. As that'|I be on sale by about 4.30. Any kind of theatre well as the normal lO0+ stalls, films, and kids contribution - funny, ranty, wordy, cartoons, Stalls spaces we hope there are some very interesting questions, answers, common sense or nonsense - meetings and activities at this year’s Bookfair. it’s up to you. We have moved to a different part of the building We refuse to charge for the event as it just $.- fit 1&3 as the old space is being refurbished. The last few wouIdn’t fit with anarchist principles, but the only “"8 Stall- years we had stuff going on in four different parts way the Bookfair can continue is by you lot making Film C Stalls of the venue. With the new building everything is in contributions. As it has been said before “to each one space and the whole building is much more according to their need, from each according to disability friendly, so hopefully our non able bodied their ability" so give what you can. On that note, refihe Older FIRST FLOOR; PLAN comrades will see a big improvement. we will be raffling two of the Stoke’s Croft riots 2-...‘ We have a number of interesting meetings Banksy posters. These are selling on ebay for £200 including: Professor Pun Ngai from Hong Kong each — you can have a chance to own one for just

speaking about the exploitation of Chinese migra fit £l! . @ S I2 noon - l.30pm is a lecturer at Hong Kong University of Science How did we get here and what are the I _,. . ' \ '-'-. . ' -. Afif’t ‘i Reclaiming the Media & Technology and author of “Made in China: prospects for anti-capitalist ? .’_fThis year will be remembered as the Women Factory Workers in a Global A debate with: Selma James (Wages for '2‘i \.-1-. _. 5.-;:-_ ' .. year when Rupert Murdoch got his- iust- Workplace". Housework Campaign; Chris Knight (Radical desserts. 25 years after the Battle of Anthropology Group); Hillel Ticktin (‘Critique, s] W’ Wapping, the UK’s biggest scandal-rag, the News 3pm - 4.30pm a journal of Socialist Theory’) of the World, became a scandal itself and was Four days that shook the world - shut down. But Murdoch isn’t the only problem; Insurrection or a minor disturbance I2 noon - 2pm a handful of corporations own virtually all of The riots in August started in Tottenham, North Primitive and its the media. All run to make huge profits and have London, after the murder of Mark Duggan, yet contemporary relevance been cutting staff and quality for years. Time to another black man killed by the police. As with The chief value of the study of human origins is reclaim the media and build new economic jean Charles de Menezes, Ian Tomlinson, Harry that it nails the myth that ‘no revolution can models. Donnacha DeLong, NU] President, leads Stanley and countless others, the police lied to ever change human nature’. It shows, on the a discussion about how we might do it. cover up their killings. Mark's death may have contrary, that everything distinctively human been the straw that broke the camel's back, but about our nature - our ability to speak, to see l.30pm - 3pm it wasn't the main cause of the riots and looting ourselves as others see us, to aspire to act on Capital Expansion in China - A Case throughout London and other parts of the moral principle - has come to prevail in our Bloc and birth of ALARM. With, amongst other Study of Foxconn Production and the country for nearly a week. A discussion about species thanks precisely to the greatest things the impending Olympics in London and Impacts on its Workers why the riots took place, the aftermath and revolution in history, ‘the revolution which the fiscal cuts kicking in, next year could prove In 20I0, I8 young workers attempted suicide at where we go from here. Speakers include worked’. This ‘human revolution’ that broke out pivotal. Come to cheer or jeer as the two most Foxconn Technology Group's Chinese premises, Darcus Howe and Tony Wood from the in Africa more than IO0,000 years ago gave rise angry veterans of the movement rabble-rouse. attracting worldwide attention. Pun Ngai will Tottenham Defence Campaign. to an egalitarian, essentially anarchist, lifestyle We say it's a straight choice between us or the use the Foxconn example to demonstrate the which lasted in most parts of the world until usual American academic wittering on about start of rapid capital expansion in China and its 4.30pm - 6pm only 3-4,000 years ago. We know we can win “Capitalism”, “Hierarchy" or their next book. impacts on the lives of Chinese workers. She ls Capitalsim destroying itself! the coming revolution because we won it when Not for the faint hearted or “pointy heads". will also look at the role of the state in And can we replace it? language and culture were first established. We Ian Bone and Martin Wright facilitating Foxconn's expansion as a form of ‘Karl Marx got it right, capitalism can destroy are a species designed for communist monopoly capital. Foxconn is an important itself.’- Nouriel Roubini (IMF and US Treasury egalitarianism, not class society or capitalism. 3pm - 4pm example of this phenomenon due to the speed adviser). ‘The [economic] icebergs are the worst Organised by: Radical Anthropology Group. in the Egyptian Revolution: and scale of its capital accumulation all over in the lifetime of anyone now living.’ - Kenneth Speaker: Prof Chris Knight Three Egyptian Anarchists talk about China which is incomparable to present Clarke. ‘People have lost faith in the free- Tahrir Square, the Arab Spring, and the enterprises. This new form of capital generates a market, Western democratic order’ - Charles 2pm - 3pm Anti-Capitalist Struggle global factory regime and a distinctive Moore (Thatcher's biographer & Telegraph The Bone & Wright Annual address to In February, hundreds of thousands of Egyptians managerial mode that further leads to workers editor). Our rulers are worried. Austerity is not the movement in Cairo and throughout the country brought suffering from work pressure, anxieties and reviving the economy. Instead, it has led to Our punchy review of the last year. Including down the 30 year rule of Hosni Mubarak. Many desperation at an unprecedented level. Pun Ngai protests and riots that are likely to intensify. school kids, student riots, March 26th, Black (‘D O I hadhopes of a new “democracy”, but in 5pm - 6pm l2 noon- lpm 2pm - 3pm lwfil I " "'””"'-I-II" .

, i,I ;I jajjulyEgyptians were back in Tahrir Anarchism, , Prostitution and All London Anarchist Revolutionary Debt & Resistance - . ]T”ijS uare demanding the rights they had Sex Work Movement (ALARM) The global economic ‘crisis’ isn't going away any expected. 8 months on, how is the Two years ago, this book fair hosted a panel on The aim is to build an organisational structure time soon, but what can we can do about it? As

revolution prOgresS'ng? Are the sex work that many felt failed to present an to give London Anarchism a chance to grow the economy nosedives, more people are demands of the Egyptian revolution, as well as anarchist perspective. We believe that anarcha- and meet the coming opportunities. ALARM turning to high street loan sharks and credit those of the other “Arab Spring" revolutions feminist critiques of work, legislation and trade provides local contacts to act as hubs for companies to survive, amassing unpayable being destroyed by one or another power elite? union structures have the potential to move anarchist activity in each borough. In addition t deficits. Toxic debts still fester on nationalised Amr Abdelrahman, Dina Makram Ebeid, and forward the entrenched debate between those area based-groups, colleges, workplaces and banks books and could lead to mass jano Charbel are in the UK to discuss their either advocating for the sex industry or campaigning groups are welcomed into the homelessness, while in 20l2 the new university” views on the Egyptian uprising in Ian/Feb and fighting stigma and those calling for its abolition structure as are national anarchist organisation fee regime kicks in. Debt is becoming an ever where the revolution goes from here. through state legislation. The meeting will try to London wide meetings are held weekly and more important part of the way capital controls Organised by the Bookfair Collective & others open discussion on ways forward for grass local groups organise as they wish. The Secreta our lives. This session will explain how debts roots organising, by prostitutes and sex and Treasurer will be elected at this meeting. plug us into the global finance system and offers 4pm - 5pm workers, against their control by the state, the Organised by: ALARM some ideas about how to fight back. Mistakes of the Spanish Revolution sex industry and the market. Organised by: Corporate Watch Stuart Christie Organised by: Anarchist Federation lpm - 2pm My main contention is simple; briefly, between Introduction to Anarchism 3pm - 4pm july-August I936, the FAI-CNT regional, national The word “anarchy” is chucked around freely We're still pissed off! :Students in and peninsular committees of the CNT-FAI by its supporters, enemies and the like of the Struggle abandoned all pretence of being popular press who knowingly use it totally out of Last November over 50,000 students and

J}ilt—'l—mi” revolutionary organs. Instead, within a matter of context. So what does “anarchism” actually workers marched on London demanding an end days, they constituted a vested interest mean? ls it one theory or are there 69 to education cuts, occupying Tory HQ and structure that served to apply the brakes to - varieties? Am I an “anarchist”? If you're new to sparking a movement. Yet despite the largest and reverse - the spontaneous revolutionary anarchism and want to find out more, this is th radical student mobilisation in decades and activity of the barrio committees, defence meeting for you. We will try and explain some waves of , we lost, with tuition fees cadres, the action groups and the defence of the basic ideas and variations and answer all rising, EMA swept away, thousands of education committees, and repress the rank-and-file those questions you didn't know where to go workers made redundant and young people's activists who were pressing for social to for proper answers. This- is- a u beginners- as tyP hope of a future shattered. What next? revolution. ‘Anti-fascist unity’ and state power meeting and not a place to argue the finer Solidifying a formal anarchist student network; were promoted at the expense of anarchist points of the theory. acting in solidarity to defend ourselves; principles and values while the hegemony of the Organised by: the Bookfair Collective *-l__ _-t»-.-_ZqZ@--» envisioning a better education. For all - notables of the CNT—FAl leadership was education is not just a student issue! Speakers imposed over the local revolutionary district from the movement. Expect focused discussion committees and the general assemblies. and concrete outcomes. Speaker: Stuart Christie Organised by: Autonomous Students Network @ ;I S 4pmto 5pm 5Pm ' 6Pm llam - I2 noon 2pm - 3pm i t-.-.-. .'= - . . -'. - . '. 1‘->. it .--.'is._..%'.\\1-.-\-I-,2~,. It - ' .Why do we call ourselves Class This space is kept free for an urgent issue that Radical Booksellers 3 UKYouth Rebellion it ; Struggle Anarchists? arises nearer the day. See Information Desk for A meeting for those in the publishing trade to Since the last Bookfair, things look very different , _. - -,-.-_ - -- _ III _. “I __, . .I . . . ~I, . . . .- .\_ _. 9- In some anarchist circles the term details. come together. in terms of youth struggles. Anarchists had “class struggle" is seen as outdated and already been commenting on the increase in boring. “Oh, you are so old fashioned" or “we I2 noon - lpm state and media marginalisation of young don't like to divide ourselves with terms like Mumia Abu-jamal & Capitalist “justice” people; being young in itself seemed to be a class struggle" are just a couple of quotes from What does the case of political prisoner Mumia crime. Since then, youth have been fighting back people who don't understand or accept the I Abu-jamal teach us about the role of the and demanding respect and to have a voice. But definition. Are they scared of the words, or do “justice” system in the US and around the do Millbank, Black Bloc and the recent riots ' they just not understand what is meant by it? ls world? Speakers include the investigative present different faces of youth rebellion? This the reaction a class or cultural thing? Members journalist Linn Washington, jr. who has known meeting explores why and how young people of Anarchist Federation, IWW and ALARM will Mumia since before his arrest, and has written are fighting back, and how anarchists figure explain what we mean by “class struggle", why it extensively about the case. within this. is still important in today's society and then Organised by: Free Mumia Campaign Organised by: Anarchist Federation open up the debate with those present. Organised by the Bookfair Collective lpm - 2pm 3pm - 4pm Anarchism and British Sign Language Resisting Welfare Abolition BllllillTIlN'S l.lBEllTlIlIlAN Sllllllll. CENTRE (BSL) - Does Anarchism offer a better Successive governments have implemented world for Deaf people reforms amounting to the abolition of welfare. LIBRARY Bll[lll$llllP This discussion explores how deaf! oral I BSL The Condems are accelerating this process, The Cowley Club Library is The bookshop is open in the signers deal with trying to be part of the throwing millions off sickness benefits and ‘="* both a lending library open to daytime, stocking anarchist, anarchist movement. It is aimed at giving people forcing the unemployed to work without pay. all and an archive/research feminist and other radical library for anarchist and other literature. As well as the latest space to tell their own stories and explore It's now claimants’ own fault if they are disabled, publications from publishers CAFE it BllllllSllllP1lr BAR associated movements. solutions. Questions include: what place does unemployed, older or single parents. No longer such as AK and PM Press, we The Cowley Club is a coilectively-owned, We welcome donations of also stock a variety of BSL have in anarchist theory? In an anarchist can you expect to be kept from starvation: the volunteer-run libertarian social centre in anarchist and other related magazines, T-shiits, postcards ideal world of small communities, how would an Brighton soon to be celebrating its 10th materials - either new and badges as well as a ton of threat of two years’ sanctions is real. Yet those anniversary. publications or historical free info. isolated deaf person fit in? In anarchist theory, of us not millionaire politicians or bankers will archive materials. The Club contains a bar, vegan cafe, We host regular author talks deaf people are free to form their own need the welfare state at some time in our bookshop and library as well as hosting a Contact the library at: and discussions. In the last community, but how will they get access to that constant programme of talks, films, discus- [email protected] year we have hosted Kate lives. Come to this workshop to hear from And check our online sions and gigs and providing welfare rights Evans, John Zerzan, David identity as children? This meeting will be members of the Defend Welfare Network advice and free English lessons for migrants. catalogue on the website. Graeber and Clive Bloom. interpreted into English. about what we are doing to stop this process. The Cowley Club functions as a base for a I We are always looking for Organised by: Deaf Activists. variety of local activist groups from Smash interesting new stock and new Organised by: Defend Welfare Network EDO to SchNEWS and Brighton Anarchist authors to host. Black Cross. For more info check the 12 London Road, Brighton, BN1 4JA website or email: [email protected] [email protected] Come over to our Bookfair Q) lilIiIIiI.lIlllilllEYl§lllB.llIIli.lIK stall to find out more! _.I.

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" " " " " -" -" "- A I lam - I2 noon response, tenants’ organisations have direct action against EDO in Brighton. We will I yet the car remains an iconic, aspirational I Deep Green Resistance emerged. They aim to stop these attacks and be providing accomodation and legal support symbol of global capitalism. Climate change ‘Deep Green Resistance is an analysis, a promote social alternatives. The anarchist and are inviting campaign/affinity groups from threatens the survival of our species yet strategy, and a movement being born. As movement is involved in many of these groups. around the country to join us in taking action. Western states continue to pursue bloody . . an analysis, it reveals the last I0,000 We will discuss the activities that have taken We are encouraging groups to organise their conflicts to feed their oil addiction. Over a years of human history - the rise and place in the last 3-4 years and try to predict the own actions and support a diversity of tactics; billion people are overweight, largely as a dominance of civilization - as the culture of future dynamics of this new social movement. from lobbying to lock-ons, from vigils to consequence of policies dictated by government death that is threatening every living being on Organised by: 'Syndicalist Courier’, UK Polish citizen's decommissionings. There will be several and corporate elites. This workshop from Earth. As a strategy, it critiques ineffective syndicalist paper mass demos too... Come along to find out how Bicycology, the radical cycling collective, seeks actions and explains their inevitable failure to you can help. Organised by: Smash Edo to unravel the tentacles of car culture and

stop the destruction of people, species, and the 3pm - 4pm explore genuine alternatives.” planet. DGR offers a concrete plan for stopping “New Nuclear” energy:An Anarchist’s I lam - I2 noon that destruction. Featuring excerpts from the nightmare Cars, Carbon, & Capitalism I2 noon - Ipm documentary END:ClV & Resist Do Not Comply, Short film and discussion on why building ten Eight of the top ten corporations are either How to set up a Co-op Organised by: Deep Green Resistance new nuclear power reactors in the UK is car makers or oil companies. Over a million Information and politics around the co-operative incompatible with an anarchist view of the people are killed every year by motor vehicles, network. A workshop to discuss the ins and outs I2noon-Ipm ' I future and how we can fight for a better of setting up a housing or workers co-op. Anarchist theory — use it or lose it alternative. By direct action campaign group Organised by: Radical Routes Why bother with dead anarchists? For some, “Kick Nuclear” who campaign for an end to the .' J _' while anarchists may do beards well, we don't UK's addiction to nuclear power. Ipm - 2pm do theory. This is wrong. We do have theory, as Organised by: Kick Nuclear From the to St-lmier . . R my ‘An Anarchist FAQ’ and ‘Property is Theft!’ The Paris Commune of l87l inspired show. Anarchism is a rich source for analysing 4pm - 5pm revolutionaries everywhere. When it was cire»iuirvatrininrtvi defeated, tens of thousands of communards I and transforming society. join me in exploring The True Cost of Coal why dead anarchists are worth reading. A visually stunning large black and white idersaniitnrsshsititurfihs were murdered, imprisoned or deported. The Organised by: AK Press, Speaker: lain McKay graphic. It will take you on a visual tour of the srreuvhsAFaiAR@kAtA events of ‘Bloody Week’ traumatised anarchists connections between coalmining, climate and drove some to the despair of assassination ‘-'" I _. Ipm - 3pm change, the ever expanding capitalist economy, and bomb-throwing. Others regrouped in Tenants’ movement in Poland - social and the struggle for social justice in Appalachia, August the following year at Saint-lmier, I 5unr23¢iI' resistance to neo-liberal housing policy north America and throughout the world Switzerland, with comrades disaffected from the Since I990 the housing situation in Poland has by-then authoritarian sham that was Marx's deteriorated mainly due to the neo-liberal International. They established structures and policies of the state and local authorities - 5pm - 6pm l5iHtflefi5'FttVflI founding principles at the roots of modern resulting in public housing sector rent increases, class-struggle anarchist organisation. This privatisation of social housing and oppressive InSm“SummerE"°20l2, starting on Mayday, Smash I ¢mm""iW‘¢"" meeting builds for the l40th anniversary of that I , ._..,.II._I-I. congress: 9th-l2th August 20l 2, in St-lmier. policies towards tenants unable to pay rents. In EDO are planning a Summer of continuous % Organised by: Anarchist Federation 12pm - 3pm as ‘fitwatching’ - against the police? What about Ipm - 2pm Welling Anti Fascism case the potential for campaigns of non-cooperation Free University ' Supporting the prisoners. Learning the and resistance to data gathering? Can we affect Until the twentieth century, the role of the lessons. a cultural shift to protect ourselves from University differed little from the times of Plato - .;.I-. ._ I I ‘Organised by: VVeIling Supporters ‘robust’ policing? and Aristotle; to create an educated elite from Organised by: Fitwatch amongst the ruling class. Then in the l920s the 3pm - 4pm IWW initiated a People's College, under the Earth First! I lam - I2 noon auspices of Cornell University; while in the Still doggedly hoping there's a place for Ecology Anarchism 8: Spirituality. midst of the the CNT-AIT in the Class Struggle. Come and hear about the Gustav Landauer and Emma Goldman spoke about and FAI started La Universida Popular. recent history of Ecological Direct Action in the the importance of spirit while Christian anarchists Education became available to all. As University UK, with space for questions and discussions. including Dorothy Day and Tolstoi, pagan anarchists admissions shrink due to current neoliberal Organised by: Earth First! Update like Starhawk and the taoist anarchism of Ursula Le policies, the Anarchist University in Toronto and Guin continue to inspire today. The spiritual A-Bildungnetz in Hannover continue to propose 4pm - 5pm traditions of rebellious social movements in the a system of non-hierarchical concensus-driven Red Rosa and the Arab Spring global South, including indigenous movements like learner networks, and here some of our Any revolutionary movement needs both the Zapatistas and landless movements like Brazil's German comrades will discuss these issues. spontaneity and organisation, but how can these MST, may be understated or even denied when Organised by: Industrial Workers of the World apparent opposites be combined successfully? anarchist atheism is taken for granted. Zoe and As the popular uprisings of 20l I bring this jamie will host a space for people to talk about 2pm - 3pm question to the fore once again, we will their relationship with anarchist culture and Sorcery, rupture and fairy dust examine the ideas of Rosa Luxemburg (l87I- spiritual practice. What are the dynamics of capitalism? How can l9l9) and Raya Dunayevskaya (l9IO-I987): we break them? And what can we learn from Organised by: Hobgoblin R0.EC I2 noon - Ipm recent episodes of protest and rebellion? A Organising in the Workplace: magical talk on the possibility of anti-capitalist I‘ 5pm - 6pm Letterpress printing at the world Committees, Direct Action, and action, linking Charlie Marx, The Troggs and the Fitwatch - update & discussion famous linl2 Club, Bradford Reaching Out to the Class Arab Spring, by way of UK Uncut. The effect of police surveillance tactics, What does radical workplace organisation look Orgainsed by: The Free Association disruption, preventative detention and pre- like? This talk includes a condensed version of emptive intervention has the potential to get The Print Project the SolFed’s Organiser Training, focusing on the 3pm - 4pm linl2 Club even worse. But public confidence in the police ‘nuts and bolts’ of workplace organising. SF SAC and Workers without papers 21-23 Albion Street is now low. Police are under pressure financially Bradford i »‘~.il members will then recap the Office Angels The Swedish syndicalist union have a Q & A and politically. How should we, as a movement, BD1 2LY campaign in which nationwide pickets forced about SAC experience in organising workers respond to all this, and how can we deal the world's largest employment agency redress without papers and the federations [email protected] effectively with policing that disrupts our a case of wage theft. development since 2002. www.theprintproject.co.uk campaigns? Should we use direct action - such Organised by: . We follow no leaders. $2;‘*3-ij; We lead no followers. 4pm - 5pm I0am -I lam during the day, while it continues to host punk Your MCs, johnny Fluffypunk & Becky .Counterpower: Making Change A Day's Work,A Day's Pay parties at night. Ultimately, Yusef is influenced by Fury present “a panoply of performers, ‘ i Happen This film follows three welfare recipients in Taqwacore too, as he begins to challenge his not just blokes with guitars singing Many times throughout history the ‘have New York City from I997 to 2000 as they own faith and ideologies. The Taqwacores deals about strikes” participate in the largest welfare-to-work with the complexities of being young and I . ; I nots' have resisted the rule of the ‘haves program in the nation. When forced to work at Muslim in modern-day America. Acts include I On occasion it has led to the radical city jobs for well below the prevailing wage and Comedian Gerry Bernstein redistribution of power. But why is it that some deprived of the chance to go to school, these I.30pm -3.30pm campaigns have succeeded while others have individuals decide to fight back. As workfare is ‘just Do It’ (subtitled) plus Q+A session Performance Poets - Merrick & Claire failed? Author Tim Gee investigates the tactics forced on us here this is an inspiring film about just Do It lifts the lid on climate activism and that have contributed to the success (or fighting back. the daring troublemakers who have crossed the Les judas - French anarchist brass band otherwise) of some of the most prominent line to become modern-day outlaws. Emily I lam - I I.30am james' film follows these activists over a year as Test their Logic social movements of the last three hundred Schnews - raiders of the lost archive they blockade factories, attack coal power Punk rappers - ‘Empowering and inspirational years. A collection of SchNews films held by Sussex stations and glue themselves to the trading anarchist hip-hop from occupied Turtle Island Organised by: New Internationalist Police for over a year following the confiscation floors of international banks despite the threat (AKA Kanada) visiting the UK for the first time‘ of SchMovies' equipment during an intelligence of arrest.The film has just had its DVD release 5pm - 6pm gathering operation in june 2009 related to the and you can pick up a copy at the screening. See Posters or Info Stall for times of acts Against Austerity: Anarcho- Smash EDO campaign. Includes footage of demos against the Gaza bombing,, Edo across Europe 3.30pm - 4.30pm Decommissioning trial and Batons ‘n’ Bombs. Reel news This talk will see radicals from across Europe More short features from Reel News on: come to London to discuss how anarchists can I I.30am - I2 noon Student demos; Stokes Croft and the Tottenham effectively fight austerity. A great opportunity to Reel News riots. learn from each other and build the bridges of Activist video collective set up to publicise and solidarity we'll need to beat back the global share information on inspirational campaigns 4.30pm - 6pm wave of austerity! accross the world. Short features on: Tower Louise Michel (subtitled) I’ Hamlets joint strike action; Southampton What to do when the workers of a factory Organised by: Solidarity Federation council strike and Electricians’ demos building have been laid off overnight? Louise has an for unofficial action. original idea: why not pool the compensation Hanna money to hire a hit man and liquidate the l2noon -I.30pm boss? Motion accepted so Louise goes in search I

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