social struggles, such as claim- EVICTED - BUT ants’ resistance and opposi- tion to the M77. THE CENTRE We're still battling to re- open Broughton Street. 200 LIVES ON! demonstrated outside the A Centre activist reports: closed Centre on 10 Decem- tJ\\ 70 POLICE forcibly ended our ber. Ont Februarythe drum- 6 month occupation of ming at our demo drowned out Edinburgh’s Broughton St. the Council meeting! Both Centre on 1 December, demos were called without C‘ 1§\‘\tll\’ arresting 21 people. 80 people permission, in defiance of the l resisted the surprise eviction Criminal justice Act. Ni‘(mt for 8 hours. Labourcontrolled The struggle for self-man- Lothian Region were aged community spaces is an determined to shut a self- important part of the struggle managed community centre foraself-managedworldl Viva involved in direct action Ia Centre! struggles. The Centre is in the basement ofthe St Ten Yearsof Counter Information 1984 -94 But the Centre lives on! We Stephen Centre, St Stephen St (enter by lane at left of building). Open Mon March/April/May 1995 No.42 Free/Donation immediately found new tempo- - Friday 12 - 4 pm, meetings Tues rary premises, and continue to 6.30pm. tel 0131557 5846. Mail to give advice and solidarity on ben- The Centre, c/0 Peace & Justice, St Johns, Princes St, Edinburgh. Sup- efits and poll/council tax has- port eviction defendants -meet 9.30am sles, and to act as a base for Sheriff Court, Chambers St. 17 May. OVER the last 6 months, it site on Nov.7th. 400 Anti-CJA Centre supporters resist eviction in Edinburgh on 1 Dec.. ( Photo Crat'gMacLean) has been impossible to avoid people invaded the grounds of the angry reaction to the Michael Howard’s (Home Criminal Justice/Public Secretary) mansion in Lympe, Order bills, now Acts in Kent. England, Wales & Scotland. In October & November, illegal Enraged by being targeted evening demonstrations erupted forincreasedpoliceharassment in Glasgow. Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Dundee complete with sound & the removal ofso-called civil systems and attitude. Faced with liberties, “kill the bill” and 4.000 in Glasgow defying the Act. now “defy the act“ has become the police tried to charge two theburningissueforthousands organisers. A ‘spontaneous’ demo ofpeople. Previouslyseparate. of 150 through the Glasgow city marginal groups. with some centre a couple of days later anxiety and dread, united in marched to the Police station and action and illegal demos to declared “Charge one, charge us oppose the CJA. all”. Down south, numerous Early defiance included the actions took place, for example in shifted to the community opposition house roof of a hated Tory MP. opening of collective squats in Leicester and Hackney, where a to the live export of animals. In The persecution of hunt sabs a disused Cinema in Oxford, riot took place outside the town previously sleepy Shoreham in continued with two in Kent up on NHS trust building in Rugby. hall. Elsewhere, 4,000 Sussex, 80 arrests were made of local ‘aggravated trespass’ charges. disused Church Hall in demonstrated in leafy North people trying to stop the export of Further trespasses took place in Swansea and old Courthouse Devon,20 occupied a Dundee calves.ln police operations Edinburgh, when 6 were charged Court to protest against trials of costed at £8 million, similar angry near Rifkind’s (Defence in Brighton, all evicted after community responses took place in Secretary) residence as 200 police violent police assault. activists and the Labour Council denounced a “rent-a-mob” who , Swansea, Plymouth and provoked the 150 activists. A MUSHROOMING Brightlingsea in Essex. Hundreds of larger action took place atWindsor By September ‘94, actions disrupted their conupt business. BALL BLOOTERED brave protesters were injured and Castle with 20 arrests after clashes had mushroomed, with the By December, resistance was tragically Jill Phipps was killed by a with 500 cops. Within 4 months, huge Hyde Park Demo that widespread. In Cheltenham, 300 lorry at . 100 activists, mainly Hunt Sabs ended in a pitch battle when who picketed a Fox- Ball Back in Scotland, 700 marched had been charged under the CJA. cops tried to prevent the were attacked by police. A mass in a Coalition demo to the Scottish At present, opposition is movement of a sound system. trespass in Ayrshire to a Tory Office on 21st Jan..The next week, united against the new powers for Ten days after there was a Huntmaster’s mansion after-1 sabs thugs in uniform broke up a demo in the State and with the ‘official’ Maidstone, Kent, leading to 33 opposition such as Labour & the vociferous angry lobby of became the first charged under arrests. Among many charges against Union leaders on the sidelines, a Parliament. The week the Scottish CJA; there were 6 arrests in Chelmsford after a pro- activists, 3 in Bristol were charged possibility exists for huge numbers following, some weird fluffies with aggravated trespass after anti- of people to be involved in direct tried to levitate Parliament, and sacked busworker’s rally was chargedby police during a sitdown Wimpey solidarity actions action. Many people still aren’t following anarchist skirmishes protest; a confrontation took place TANKED UP aware of the new powers to stop with the cops made the earth in Stoke between 150 Defiance Using imagination, an old walking in the countryside or pursuing industrial action. With move. Alliance activists and Labour MPs centurion tank was driven into After the passing of one of protected by Police; 700 tried to Downing St. and other early February festivals, raves etc. likely from the Acts on November 4th, invade Chequers, the country actions included youths from the the Spring, expect opposition to protesters scaled on to Parliament’ s retreat of Prime Minister Major; ‘Salford Firm’ turning up in force at Britain’s police state to grow in roof, and the first charges under 2000 in Bristol and 400 in a Manchester demo, plus marches in confidence and intensity. News on resistance to the Criminal t.he Act were used on Earth First Liverpool marched illegally, while Loughborough and in Birmingham. activists, including a 51 year old where 3,000 mobilised. In Newcastle, Justice Act from the weekly news- a street presence took place in sheet SCI-INEWS, c/0 on-the fiddle, woman, in Manchester who had Sheffield and Manchester. six riotvans, ahelicopter and mounted cops greeted a peaceful (decoy) demo. PO Box 2600, Brighton. 01273 taken over a Crane on a Wimpey By early January. the focus 685913. Meanwhile, 70 activists occupied the Freefestival, Hyde Park, J1/12 June. Sara Thornton .' -.-- l Unjust Desserts

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The trial ...... _._._.;._._.;.;.;. "" ' - "H _.:.;.;I;.;._.;I_~I...... I length of time the Home Office are ...... -I...... III will probably last till the end of j§:I:I;I:I:I_ - , -‘fl ' jI:I:I;I:I:I:I:Z: as part of the so-called ‘Ice \ taking to respond to new evidence I 1995! Supporters of the unwaged _. Cream war’, a violent dispute presented to them regarding her London Greenpeace activists are I:I:I:I l‘I.t.nI-1‘ I-I-I-Q-01I-I-I. 1I'II0I0I over mobile shop territories. A IIIIIIIIIII-I:-:-:-: :-:-:-: .;.;.:. nIIII-IIIIIIIIII.0-I'I-l.l.l.l.l-I .|'o'\-c.l'l'l'I'n '|'l.o-a"l'i'l.A-0 .I.I.O.I.I.I.I.I-I :-:1:-: calling for pickets of McDonalds case. IIIII‘.‘I'-I-I.IIII IIIII I IIIIIII'II"II'II'I‘IIIIIIII I I I I family died in the blaze. everywhere on 15 April - the Please send letters of support to The Glasgow 2 have passion- company’s 40th anniversary . Sara Thornton, HMP Styal, Satpal was charged with mur- ately protested their innocence. Joe Solidarity actions have occurred in Wilmslow, Cheshire SU9 4HR. der, convicted and jailed for life. Steele has frequently escaped to 25 countries worldwide. Another woman unjustly jailed for Satpal wasn’t allowed to give publicise the case, once even chain- McLibel Support Campaign, c/o 5 killing her abuser in self-defence is his own evidence in court and his ing himself to the gates of Buck- Caledonian Rd, London N1 9DX. Emma Humphreys - info from Jus- Bengali speaking witnesses, who ingham Palace. Recently he was Tel/fax 0171 713 1269 . Leaflets tice for Women, 55 Rathcoole £12 per 1,000 from 0115 9585666. supported his story, were not pro- captured sneaking out of Perth top Gdns, London N8 9NE. Tel. 081 Outrage Arrests vided with interpreters so the jury security dressedas anurse! Tommy Two ‘Outrage’ demonstrators were 340 3699. didn't understand anything they Campbell has long been held in arrested for holding placards “Iran said. Special Units, and is part of the murders queers” and “Islam Nazis No natural born killer ! In 1993 the Home Secretary hunger strike. behead and burn queers” outside One of the thousands of prisoners refused to refer the case back to the New evidence an Islamic Fundamentalist of colour is Norma Jean Croy a Court of Appeal. ofwrongful convic- conference in Wembley which Shasta Indian from California, shot The latest news is that in De- tion has been offi- drew attention to the estimated in the back by a drunken police 4,000 lesbians and gay men killed cember Satpal won his fight for a cially suppressed. since 1980 in Iran. officer in 1978 and convicted of Judicial Review and has had his The Scottish police Wheelchair Blockade murder even although her co-ac- case referred back to the Court of and judiciary con- 40 demonstrators, many in wheel- cused was later freed at a retrial. Appeal. But the bad news is that tinue with their chairs, invaded Harrods on Nov 18 soon after he was charged with ‘couldn’t happen to protest against restrictions on Self defence is no offence “prison mutiny” - concerning here’ lies about mis- disabled shoppers but were ejected IN 1986 Satpal Ram was vio- events that happened over 12 carriages of justice. roughly by a private security firm. lently attacked by 6 white men months ago! The media has ig- Nearly all shoppers walked out in whilst eating in an Indian res- Write to the home secretary, nored the hunger solidarity. In mid February, 100's taurant in Birmingham. blocked roads after a lobby of quoting the no. E94l64, urging strike, probably on Parliament by DAN. He was stabbed with a broken him not to contest the case and that Scottish Office in- Underclass glass and had to defend himself the the appeal be heard urgently. structions. Opposition to the conditions and same way. Satpal and his attacker Write - SatpalRam, E94164, HMP Counter Info would proposed closure of Hackney were both taken to hospital where Full Sutton, Moor Lane, York - be grateful for any Downs School, London, has united Satpal needed stitches and his at- Free Satpal Campaign, c/o 101 news about the G2 pupils, parents and teachers. In tacker refused treatment; he died 2 Villa Rd., Handsworth, Birming- campaign and the nearby Tiverton Primary School, hours later. Tottenham, campaigning parents ham B19 INH. Tel 021 551 4518. hunger strike. in January ‘95, have forced Harin- gey Council to pass repair funds. THE MEN OF VIOLENCE - BRITISH TROOPS No Bulgarian wine Bulgarian seamen, without pay for 3 years, have occupied “The DESPlTEthe ceasefire, 17,000 An RUC witness testified fake a “car injury". Rotalia” klondyker vessel in Lerwick, assisted by the British soldiers and 15,000 that the car never threatened British soldiers have killed solidarity of Shetland Islanders. armed FIUC police continue the soldiers and that the paras 160 unarmed civilians in Racism destroys us all to harass Irish people - and to beatone of their own numberto N.lreland since 1969. Oluwashji Lapite, a 34 year old Nigerian man, was beaten to death meet resistance. in police custody at the infamous In February the Irish Rotten Beyond Repair Stoke Newington station on 16th Dec.’94. 200 demonstrated angrily Times reported soldiers THE CHILD Support Agency is can stick it in the trashcan of outside the station shortly after. “blocking off roads, abusing falling apart due to pressure from coercive history. The UK State begrudges asylum to campaigns. Set up ostensibly to persecuted refugees from the ‘third people, makingvictorysigns” Campaign against the Child Sup- world’. Latest. statistics show only in south Armagh. help lone parents, in reality almost port Act, PO Box 287, London 5% of arrivals are granted asylum, all money clawed back from ‘ab- NW6 SQU. Tel. 071 837 7507. with only 20% allowed to stay on In East Tyrone harassment sent fathers’ goes straight into ‘exceptional leave’. The UK, like reported in January included Treasury coffers. Year Zero other ‘Fortress Europe‘ States is house raids (one involving 100 A recent enquiry into the CSA A year before the introduction now trying to repatriate Bosnians police and soldiers), lengthy won some minor victories, recog- and Albanians to a warzone nising clean-break financial settle- of the Jobseeker's Allowance, &Tamils to Sri Lanka. detentions of people going to ments, etc.. Grass-roots pressure claimants are increasingly Orkney Victory mass, and intimidatory attempts on CSA sex-spies is causing havoc subject to benefit threats Good news from Orkney! The in Agency offices where morale is closure of beds at Kirkwall’s to recruit informers. whether on Unemployment hospital has been stopped after a On 16 Novembera man was low, crack-ups are commonplace, Benefit or Income Support. A January demonstration by a third hospitalised by paratroopers in and complicated case-files are con- veniently “lost”. Three-quarters ‘JSA’ day scheduled is to of the island’s population. Belfast. A British army patrol Future Spent Waste of claims are wrongly assessed. coincide with the next stage of 17 activists were arrested on 1st clashed with locals in Newry on The Tories have announced the Parliamentary bill in mid- March at an M6 service station in 5 November. that 3000.000 ‘pending’ cases of March. Meanwhile, sick Cumbria after chaining themselves lone parents on benefits have been around a British nuclear lorry. Meanwhile Tories orches- claimants are being hounded trate a campaign to free Private “suspended indefinitely”. No Non-Payers Winning action is to be taken against 50,000 off higher benefits ahead of the Councils are to abandon attempts Clegg, convicted of murdering lone parents who refused to co- new Incapacity Benefit, to be to collect the whole £1.5 billion of 18 year old Karen Reilly in unpaid poll tax the Audit Commis- operate with the CSA. This is a introduced April ‘95. sion stated. It predicts that by Dec W.Belfast in 1990. Karen and major victory for grass-roots non- 95 the cost of collection will out- 17 year old Martin Peake - co-operation, especially since it Free as it should be weigh the income gained for many youngsters with no paramilitary was revealed that, even with no Free travel in Chelmsford, Essex, Councils in England and Wales. new cases, it will take the CSA 3 has been provided by 105 sacked Lothian Council chiefs are set to connections - were shot dead years to clear its backlog of400,000 drivers of ‘Eastern National’ using write off £15m of debts. as their stolen car drove away cases. minibuses donated by the TGWU. Solidarity with non-payers :APTs Don't co-operate with the Donations go towards the 0131 556 0903; 0141 552 1179. from a paratroop patrol. CSA. Like the hated poll tax, we reinstatement campaign. No end to discontent Sizwe, who've been integrated into the white dominated SA army went The South African government is AWOL in response to their mal- facing increasing opposition by the treatment and squalid conditions. ‘0UN'l‘l'~llt Bolger the codger. black working class as it attempts Bus drivers in Johannesburg block- Militant Maoris forced the New xutottmrrtorr ,_ to deliver its electoral promises. aded the city centre during the Zealand government to abandon 3,000 former members of the evening rush hour as part of their the national-day celebrations at ANC's military wing, Umkhonto we pay rise demands. Meanwhile, in Waitangi, where Maori chiefs the townships, the 10-year boycott signed a treaty giving sovereignty to Britain. On 6th Feb., the 400 of rent and electricity, water and protestors, who say Maoris have Solidarity with rubbish collection rates has intensi- been tricked by the government’s fied since last year's elections with plans for the final land claim more than 80% of residents refus- settlements, tried to set fire to the ing to pay. building where the treaty was signed, spat at the Governor- Chiapas General, stamped on the New In December 1994 the Mexican Zealand flag, prevented Prime gans are painted on the front of actions against Bancomer, Banco Minister Jim Bolger speaking and government was forced to lower Kentucky Fried Chicken. Mexicano and Chase Manhattan threw punches at the government’s the value of the peso thus forcing McDonalds, Arbys, banks and ex- banks. 130 protest outside Mexi- top Maori official, Wira Gardiner. down workers’ wages and putting pensive hotels. Speakers at the can consulate then head to Chase It’s the first time the ceremonies all public welfare spending on hold. demo describe the torture of pris- Bank. have had to be cancelled. The US government stepped in to oners who are made to sign ‘con- ~ 14 Feb: Vermont, US; demos in 8 Forcing Climbdowns Despite the climbdown of Prime offer a loan package of $40 billion fessions’. Women prisoners are towns and cities. Venice, Italy; 100 but with the provision that Mexico Minister Edouard Balladur over subjected to rape and sexual abuse. people occupy Mexican consulate. new rules which would prevent pays back all its oil revenue and - 13 Feb: the Anny surrounds the - 16 Feb: Detroit, US; protest with 100,000 students at technology surrenders its ownership of some city of San Cristobal and attack banners reading, ‘Peasants are not institutes from entering universi- government owned institutions. Mayan Indians and poor farmers, collatoral’. ties, thousands of students contin- The US Chase Bank has also asked raping indigenous women. ued to protest in Nantes, Toulouse the Mexican authorities to ‘stabi- - 15 Feb: 50.000 march in Mexico Chase Bank has been targetted due and Paris, among other cities on lise the country’, i.e. quell the City in support of the Zapatistas. to its internal memo, written by 10th February, demanding that Chiapas uprising. they be scrapped completely and Unions from the communications, Riordan Roet, which said: ‘ the not just suspended until consulta- electrical and oil industries show govemment [in Mexico] will need tion with teachers and students. These developments have not gone support as do lesbian and gay to eliminate the Zapatistas to dem- Anarchist offensive unchallenged: . groups saying: ‘Our human rights onstrate their effective control of Police arrested 60 anarchists are violated too and the EZLN has the national territory and security before a march commemorating ' 9 Feb: President Zedillo an- always supported us’. policy’. the student uprising in 1973 (Which nounces on TV that due to a find of - 17 Feb: protests outside military Chase Manhattan have a Free led to the fall of the military dictat- gun caches in Mexico, the EZLN bases throughout Mexico. orship). On the previous day,Nov Phone number for International 16, anarchists fought police for are to be treated as ‘terrorists’. ~ mid Feb: 36 Chiapas towns de- Calls (813) 884 2997 and within (The finds are no bigger than any several hours. Hundreds of clare autonomy. Many have thrown the US 1 (800) 545 0465. Call them anarchists occupied the Polytech- large landowner would have.) out their mayors. Roadblocks are and let them know how you feel. nic School - the march’s starting ' 1 1 Feb: the Army starts offensive set up between San Cristobal and Amor y Rabia, A.P. 11-351, CP point and a symbol of the uprising in Chiapas. It’ s been rumoured that Comitan with banners reading: ‘In 06101, Mexico DF, Mexico. - to demand the release of those Chilean and Argentinian military this free and rebel territory we pro- seized in the police raids and were ‘advisors’ have been called in. As hibit the entrance of military per- supported by 100’s outside. On 11 Mexico City, On Nov 8 a Jan, in central Athens, 100's of the army try to fly in more support sonnel. of public security. ofjudi- McDonalds was ransacked by 40 troops, peasants blockade the air- anarchists again fought police after cial police and any person from the masked people.The windows breaking away from a student strip with boulders. Colonel government‘. were broken, cash registers were demo and smashing bank and shop Monterola, senior commander of thrown on the floor as well as windows. 5 people were arrested. the Mexican jungle assault forces Demos in support of the EZLN rubbish. The demo was to Who Decides ? is killed in a EZLN ambush. outside Mexico: protest Proposition 187 which is Although French abortion clinics 100,000 people march in Mexico a Californian (USA) "anti- continue to suffer attacks, pro- City proclaiming ‘we are all ' 12, 13 Feb: New York sabotage choice protestors are fighting back. Marcos’ (EZLN leader) and slo- immigration" proposal. On Jan 17, the 20th anniversary of legal abortion, 300 demonstrated to demand less restrictions and, on Natural Born Resisters the 22nd, pro-choicers hung a banner from the top of Notre Scattered militant actions occur throughout USA & Canada Dame cathedral proclaiming it to involving anti-authoritarian networks. be a ‘Free contraception and On Sunday 5th February, 500 demonstrated in downtown abortion clinic’ while 200 people Alberquerque, New Mexico, againstanti-immigrant measures demonstrated outside. The action coincided with a large anti-choice in states such as Florida & California. Over half of those demo in Paris backed by US anti- present were hispanic, with virtually no leftists present. abortionists. (Bad Attitude Feb 95) The previous day, in Toronto a violent confrontation at -. ‘ ':3:7‘3t5‘ Bangladesh strikes \:-.'.-:»:-:-:-‘.»: \=;-:»:-:-:'-:§:f:§:§ Kennedy subway station left 2 Nazis and 2 anti-fascists On 14th February, workers camp- :1: 1:1? r £15151: injured and the media blamed the anti-fascists despite the aigning for better wages and job -:-:~._. ;!;;;I;1;»:-:-:-:- security took part in a 6-hour .;;;:;: -:-c;:;:;I-11:1: fact that one had 3 stomach wounds and a serious neck general strike in protest at the

.1:<= wound. This followed a similar incident in Minneapolis which killing of two comrades by police. led to Kieran Frazier Knutson being charged for attacking a Shell means Hell ,;:_\ ' :-.-:-:-; .-,_ known nazi after he assisted the defence of ananti-racist The run-up to the trial of Ken demo on Minnesota campus. To highlight their opposition to Saro-Wiwa, a major figure in the Ogoni people’s fight against Shell-’s the state's trumped up charges, 40 activists occupied the devastation of their land in Rivers Chief Attorney’s offices on January 27th. State, has seen the leaking of On Feb18th., 80 Antioch College students in Columbus, official documents proving that the Ohio,were brutally attacked by police after one demonstrator military government destroyed was arrested for trespassing during a protest against cuts to many villages, torturing and murdering up to 1,800 people. student aid programmes. They also indicate that Shell paid Other recent examples of anti-fascist resistance include for the military operation. 300,000 Denmark: The working class district the disruption of a speech by Nazi apologist, David Irving on Ogoni people have protested at the of Nerrebro, Copenhagen celebrated the New Oct.t3th at Berkeley camp. Literature was trashed & the destruction of farmland, oil spills, Year in style when shops and banks were cops had to intervene to protect Irving & his elite guards air pollution and water contamina- attacked. The night’s events culminated in tion caused by the government’s fromthe 75 direct actionists. A fortnight later, riots broke out and Shell’s pursuit of profit. the trashing of a recently opened McDonald’s in Lex-ngton, Kentucky after cops shot a black youth dead in restaurant by about 400 first-footers. cold blood. Clause 4? Class war! LABOUR leader Tony Blair wants rid of Clause 4, which THE PEOPLE in Pollok, Earth First! in Manchester have been supposedly commits Labour to “common ownership of the Priesthill, Darnley, ‘ and squatting Wimpey cranes (one for means of production”. Corkerhill have little enough: 64 hours) in solidarity with Pollok. crap housingandlowliving stand- Throughout roads campaigns Blair is making Labour more Tory than the Tories, in a ards. But no suffering is great people are taking control over their desperate bid for power. So should we defend Clause 4? enough to command the guilt of architecture and their fight for a We say NO. Every Labour government - all “committed” to those who profit by the oppres- decent environment. The Anti-M65 Clause 4 - has run the capitalist economy and put profits first. Last sive organisation of our society. and Anti-M77 campaigns have both time inpower (1974-79) Labourheld down wages through the Social The process of taking from produced amazing and defiant liv- Contract and savagely cut social services. those who have already been ing quarters. 17 tree houses have What’ s more for Labour “common ownership” means nationalisation. robbed continues with the theft of been built in Stanworth Valley, But nationalised industries still operate for profit. They still have a the land given to the people of Lancs to defy the the M65. Hun- hierarchical structure. They are just another form of capitalism - state Glasgow : Pollok Estate.We have dreds of kids run free in the Pollok capitalism, collective ownership by the ruling class. so little and still they take; it is not Free State. Pupils at Bellarmine Real common ownership means grass-roots workers and community enough to ask them to return it - Secondary have formed a Students control - no bosses, no managers. It means production for human need - no we need to fight back ! Union which demands it be recog- profit motive, no buying and selling. It means “from each according to their abilities, to each according to their needs”. DOING IT FOR OURSELVES Real change will never come through parlia- ment. More people in Britain realise this and are taking direct action against injustice. Blockades of lorries transporting animals, defying the Criminal Justice Act, stopping motorway building, wildcat strikes. This mass direct action achieves immeasureably more than empty arguments over Labour’s constitution. And the experience encourages a much-needed rejection of passivity and consumerism. Ultimately direct action is the way that hu- manity can take control of the “means of pro- duction”, and create a global community with genuine common ownership and real equality and freedom. School students resisting the M77 nised and granted the right to leave school to protest. As this has been So goes the cry at Pollok Free GET INVOLVED ! denied they are on strike and fight- State, the anti-roads camp set up in We invite you to write to us, and to the groups listed below. (Write if you want listed) defiance to the M77. The immoral ing for, in their words, ‘our future’. - Active Distro, BM Active, London WCIN 3XX (catalogue 29p stamps & sae) and illegal contract between Strath- Two 14-year-olds and two 12 ~ AK Distribution’, 22 Lutton Place, Edinburgh (write for catalogue) clyde Region and Wimpey carves year-olds were arrested in February - Anarchist Black Cross,c/o 121 Railton Rd.,London SE24 (prisoner solidarity). up the 1018 acre Pollok Estate, one along with an increasing number of - Anarchist Communist Federation,84b Whitechapel High St,London E1 7QX of Glasgow’s few remaining green Pollok Free S tate citizens. The cam- ~ Anarchist Womens Newsletter, POBox 51, c/oGreen1eaf,82 Colston St., Bristol belt areas. Already trees are being paign continues with tree-squatting, ~ Anarchists in London Fax 071 326 0353 (24 hours) to contact Contraflow, 56a felled and hundreds are attempting aerial feats, barricade building, Infoshop, Anarchist Black Cross, 121 Centre, and Bad Attitude. to halt the work. chainsaw interrupting and attempts - Angry People, PO Box 183, Waterloo, NSW 2017 Australia. Roads protests in England have atpersuading the security to change - Bad Attitude, 121 Railton Road, London, SE24 OL, UK. Tel: 071-978 9057 been determined, and costly to the sides. On 25 Feb., after a 3,000 ' The Centre,c/0 Peace & Justice, St.Johns, Princes St., Edinburgh(mail only) profiteering rapists of our earth. strong illegal anti Criminal Justice ~ Class War : PO Box 1021, Edinburgh EH8 9PW : PO Box 772, Bristol BS99 IEL Construction companies Noryest Act march, 200 tore down the fence PO Box 4297, Dublin 1, IRELAND (groups Britain-wide & international): Holst (costs rise from £37-51m) round Wimpey’s compound and - Contraflow, 56a Infoshop, 56 Crampton St., London SE17 (excellent news-sheet) Murphy (£4m costs doubled) and swarmed over the machinery. ~ DS4A, Box '8, 82 Colston St., Bristol (mail order distribution) - Industrial Workers of the World, 75 Humberstone Gate, Leicester LE1 IWB Christian & Neilsen (50% over Pollok and the anti-M65 campaigns both desperately need - Kate Sharpley Library, BM Hurricane, London WC1 3XX.(also publishers) budget) have all lost cash due to - Kaos?, c/o J.Bals, Blekksoppgrenda 39, 1352 Kolsas, Norway. direct action protest. The 500 strong your strength; what is being destroyed can never be fully - Kommunist Kranti , Majdoor Library, Autopin Jhuggi, Faridabad-121001, India. anti M11 occupation of Claremont ~ London Greenpeace, 5 Caledonian Rd., London N1 Road, east London took 200 bail- reclaimed. But we can reclaim our - Norwich Solidarity Centre/Solidarity Fed.: PO Box 73, Norwich NR3 1QD iffs, 700 police and 400 security own power. Govem yourself. ' PO Box 51465, Raedene, 2124, Johannesburg, South Africa.(anarchist distro) Pollok Free State, Barrhead Rd., Glas- guards a week to destroy at a cost of - Scottish Federation ofAnarchists (£1 formagazinc & sac fornews-sheet ): write £2m., in late November. gow G53. Tel 0860 728244. Glasgow Earth Firstl, 3 George St., Paisley - 0141 for contacts: Box 1008, Glasgow G42 8AA. Anti-roads protesters have used 946 2700. No M65 - 01772 704103. No - Sheffield Anarchist Group, PO Box 446, Sheffield S1 INY their power in a huge variety of M11-0181 558 2638. EF!Action Up- - 255 PdG Info Shop : write M. Decortes, c/o Libreria Utopia, via Moscova 52, resourceful and imaginative ways. date, Dpt.29, 1 Newton St. Manchester 20121 Milano, Italy. Tel/fax 02—29003324. (write for catalogue) - Tottenham Solidarity Network, c/o 72 West Green Rd., London N15 exploded on 19th Jan when 150 ~ Wind Chill Factor, PO Box 81961, Chicago, IL 60681, USA. Sorting out the posties were suspended. Unofficial action broke out, with management Management hurriedly withdrawing disciplinary “All out Nowl”, was the rallying action against two Glasgow workers cry ofpostal workers during a wildcat to avoid countrywide escalation. The mood of defiance was strike. Within a day, 15,000 North- based in central Scotland, incl. Edinburgh. 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