The Centre fights eviction THE first application ofthe Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act may be by a Labour Council against community activists, the majority unemployed, some homeless. 5 The Centre, in Broughton St. Edinburgh is barricaded and awaiting attack by sheriff officers. On 16 Sept. the Labour Lothian Region - the Centre's landlord - obtained a “move to eject” decree. The Region has no other use planned for the building. They are coon .ji=:.lt refusing to grant a lease to the local community council - a proposal which would enable the Centre to continue. The Region are out to destroy an autonomous space which has long been a base for direct lNFO“Rll\l ‘ilk action and grass-roots struggles. ironically the Centre - formerly Edinburgh Unemployed Workers R Centre - has never been busier, with athriving cafe and busy creche, well-used meeting spaces, a darkroom, a reading room, community arts space, music workshops, claimants‘ resistance and benefits advice, frequent socials and so on. During the occupation the Centre remains open to the public and all activities continue. The attack on the Centre is part of a general attack on self- ACT OF DEFIANCE managed community resources the world over. The attack must be resisted, and we need help to keep the Centre open. Write, phone, THE LAST 2 months have pain than the SWP/Militant/RCP witnessed many more protest trying to sabotage/take over our turn up, join the occupation! Viva La Centre! actions, demos, benefits, etc., activities. Of course we dislike The Centre. 103 Broughton St., Edinburgh EH1. Tel. 031 557 0718. against the Criminal Justice violence. but recognise it as an Below: Centre supporters demonstrate in Edinburgh on 1 Oct. Bill which is shortly to be often necessary tool in the class war against our oppressors by any passed regardless - which is 5£i55§‘l5i5§5i5l5i5= 1§5§5i5i_Ii§‘§§-.- '_ "Ti-ifififiiiiiliiii ‘5ii‘i"1:1 '1. ' . means necessary . In any con- ' ":-.'1:1:i:1:-13‘ ':5'*EI ' ' '1:i:’:§:§:§:[.’I5§5:§:51;‘ ' when the real fight begins. -5;E:3;;;;;:s;'~‘>-=. __ I -. frontation watch out for these ":-:-:-:-: " -- ' Most towns of any size now have people - they are not on our side. groups with more people getting The real fight against the criminal involved all the time. “DIY week" ;‘<"‘t-5&1 justice bill will start when it be- (September 19 - 26) saw various °““'*‘°*i~t§$w<.~= comes law, don't be intimidated. demonstrations in Northampton. together in strength we can resist Manchester, Bath. Croydon. Hud- it on many fronts making it un- dersfield. Brighton, Canterbury. workable. Brixton. Leicester, Guildford. Contact : Brighton Squatting Centre Lowestoft. Norwich. Nottingham. against the Criminal Justice Bill. The Sheffield, Oxford, and Hastings. Old Courthouse, 17 - 19 Princes St., The week before saw a largish opp. Royal Pavilion. Brighton. demo in Edinburgh and the big Sou‘siders Against the CJB, c/o demo in London on 9 October.33 Larkfield Centre. 39 Ingiefield St., people were arrested in clashes with Govanhill. Glasgow. the police after the HydePark Rally. Particularly encouraging was the opening of the massive commu- nity squat against the CIB in Brighton in September. This old courthouse has dozens of rooms UP TO 700 refugees are be- the centre gates and then broke into fascists. Hundreds ofpeople from with an infoshop, bookstore. ve- ing detained in detention the grounds. In June hundreds at- the local community formed a de- gan cafe. gig and theatre spaces, centres and jails every tended a national demo and a riot fence campaign and organised a creche. art gallery and is always month, up to 200 being de- inside caused£20,000 wort.h ofdain- public meeting and pickets; de- busy with events and people. ported monthly. The 1971 age while 6 people escaped. manding an end to police harass- Fight the Fluffiness Immigration act allows peo- The Campaign to close Campsfield ment, all charges dropped and suc- More depressing and dangerous is ple seeking asylum from op- demands no detentions and no cessfully forced an independent the unfortunate point that in most pression to be held indefi- deportations - write c/0 111 enquiry into Altercliffe police. The areas the Freedom Network and nitely, without charge. Magdalen Rd., Oxford OX4. charges were eventually dropped their newly found pacifist allies. or reduced. At Campsfield House Detention FIGHT THEM BACK mostly discovered in the"hippyish“ In Iuly local Asians came to the Centre in Oxfordshirc 99% ofthe Despite the state’s attempts to elements within the enviromnen- defence of a cab driver in detainees are black. A clear at- criminalise them communities con- tal movement and the festivalf Rotherham who was beaten by a tempt to divide the working class tinue to defend themselves against techno scene. are growing in num- gang of white men. As the racists along national boundaries. the racism and police brutality. In May bers and influence. got away 6 young people were refugees have suffered racial a group of 20 white men threatening They encourage people to “keep it arrested. Locals marched on the abuse. attacks from staff. being people with baseball bat.s and bars fluffy" - join hands. sing songs. sit police station and 2 nights ofriot- down and in some cases grass on moved at short notice” and in I991 were driven out ofthe area by young ing followed. “violent agitators" to the co- Omasasi Lumumba was murdered Asians in Downall. Sheffield. The In Scotland opposition continues operatve boys in blue. Many of us by officers in Pentonville. police response was to drive the to BNP activists Gavin Robertson, thought. with relief that libertarian However detainees have fought racists around the corner and re- a Scottish Office employee. and politics had mostly rid itself of back. In March a hunger strike by lease them. GusMcLeod at Glasgow's Burrell such naive and deadend ideology detainees spread to 10 other jails A spontaneous demo against a Collection. back in the mid-1980s. we must and detention centres. On 26 planned BNP meeting in the area. now struggle once again to destroy however. found the police descend- Info: CARP magazine.BM Box S784. March demonstrators chained up London WCIN 3XX. Contraflow. this bullshit. it‘s even more of a ing in riot vans and arresting 8 anti NO JUSTICE! NO PEACE ! The I.R.A. cease-fire may offer Peace. Will it bring justice ? A propaganda battle, largely fought on American TV,has yet to alterthe way people live in the north of Ireland. The British troops are less ‘battle ready’, yet plastic bullets have been used in catholic Belfast, and, the infamous Paratroop Regiment is about to be ‘deployed’ in West Belfast. The European Union wantsto bring down the huge dividing wall between loyalist and catholic ghettos and substitute ‘environmental improvements’, yet in North Belfast a new wall is planned to keep apart battling revellers in a park.Early September saw local people in Co. Fermanagh, Ireland, taking action to open roads across the border which the British army had closed for "security reasons". The army closed the roads again but locals came back and reopenedthem again - even using a bulldozer. The British state is torn between promises to the Unionists at Westminster, the US role and the financial dividends of ‘troops out’.

One of the groups in Ireland which has consistently opposed the Villagers celebrate the premature — and short-lived — reopening of a cross-border road presence of British troops, while recognising that Republicanism is nationalism rather than revolutionary socialism, is the Workers Stop the Strip-Searches refusing him medicine and treat- Solidarity Movement. We reprint part of their recent "Statement". LAST YEAR 40 women workers at ment. The prison authorities jus- “We welcome the cease-fire. Over the past 25 years over 3,000 Asda in Barrow, Cumbria, were tify this savage treatmentby saying people have been killed and 40,000 injured. Thousands have been stripped and searched for a missing that Salvatore ‘as an active Anar- through or are still in prison. The primary blame forthese deaths and £10 note. This was a frightening chist is a danger to our society’. all the associated suffering belongs to the British State. No cease- widening-out of strip-searching Obviously they intend to let him which is deliberately degrading and die as a warning to others. fire has as yet been declared by the British State. Likewise the humiliating and frequently used on SALVATORE NEEDS MONEY loyalist paramilitaries have not yet declared a cease-fire, and have prisoners. In Maghaberry prison in TO STAY ALIVE. killed Catholics and bombed a Sinn Fein office since the IRA ceased Ireland 22 women prisoners were DONATIONS; London ABC,c/0 their military campaign. In these circumstances the IRA cease-fire brutally strip-searched by male and 121 Railton Rd.,London SE24. will not bring peace, much less justice. female screws. SUPPORT: Salvatore Cirincione, A Compromise with Imperialism The Stop Strip-Searches Campaign Carcere di San Vittore, Milano. is organised to publicise and op- Italy. Some on the left will see the IRA cease-fire as a sell-out. We don't. pose the strip-searching of women I I -...... 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In addition, It represents a hardening of traditional hungerstrike, John Was freed from solitary and transferred to general JohnBowden is another campaigner nationalism and an alliance of all the nationalists, Fianna Fall, population in Lucasville prison, for prisoners’ rights and a frequent SDLP,SInn Fein and the Catholic Church. Republican statements Ohio, scene of a recent bloody riot. contributor of in-depth supportive have focussed on the need for a De Klerk type figure to lead the Almost immediately, he was articles on prison resistance. John Protestants to compromise. stitched-up by 2 screws against escaped from prison and was re- whom he’d won a lawsuit years captured after 18 months in Scot- Depending on deveIopments,it may be also become easier over land last June. His escape was the next few years (for revolutionaries) to begin a more sustained ago. Flung back into solitary, John has also lost visiting rights and ac- motivated by a knowledge that, af- approach to Protestant workers. To date this has been almost cess to legal materials. John is a ter 12 years inside, he would never impossible due to the fact that loyalist death squads have targeted self-taught, qualified lawyer and be released until he was ‘broken, and even killed revolutionary socialists and anarchists who attempted helps other cons to fight their cases. subdued or murdered‘. to work in their community while maintaining a principled opposition Andy of the John Perotti Defence Like Salvatore and John Perotti, Fund says ‘ A major problem seems John Bowden is classed as a ‘dan- to imperialism. gerous subversive‘ and as such is, Building on Sand to be that John’s name has become so well -known over the years that like the others, kept in solitary and If the peace holds, the next few years will be a test of our ability to people don’t notice it any more. at the top of the screws‘ hit-list. He build a viable alternative to the bosses, north and south. But we are Nearly everyone seems indifferent needs letter of support. aware that 25 years ago the British State smashed something (the these days, but John needs our help John Bowden 1273/94,1-IMP Penh. Civil Rights movement) much more modest than what we propose, just as much as he ever did.‘ 3 Edinburgh Rd. Perth. Scotland. with armed force. A Danger to Whose Society? CAN’T JAIL THE SPIRIT In the short term it would be possible to build workers unity on day In top-security Perth Prison in Sep- to day economic issues without mentioning partition but it would be Originally jailed for belonging to the revolutionary underground, tember cons gave the screws a les- building on sand. In the past, working class unity has been swept Salvatore Cirincione was recaptured son in mutual aid. aside on a tide of bigotry. This will be a real test (and) it is where the in December 1992 after 8 years on Prisoners in C-Hall set off the staff cease-fire assumes its international dimension. All over the world the run. Frequently beaten and tor- alarm and when the screws rushed the authoritarian left has collapsed due to the inadequecies of its tured by screws, Salvatore now suf- to the ‘trouble-spot’ the cons in E- fers from haemorrhage and serious Hall broke into the canteen and politics. Our success or failure depends on our ability to convince liberated all tobacco. tea. sugar, people of our politics, demonstrate the ability to fight and win, and infections. His left testicle has been removed, his pelvic bones are sweets, groceries and soft drinks. give people the confidence to change society. This is the process smashed and his ‘genital apparatus “The whole thing was planned and that can lead to a lasting peace with justice.” is dead'. executed like a military operation” The full version of this can be obtained from POB 1528, Dublin 8 or via After a hungerstrike S alvatore ‘ s cur- said one con. “It went like clock- work. It's the biggest feast we've e-mail [email protected] Read an alternative view in Organise, rent state of health is precarious. had since getting locked upi”. magazine of the A.C.F.. Send large SAE for sample, address on p.4. The Italian Ministry of Justice is "I'l'I‘I-I-I-I-I-I-I‘:-I-I'M‘: '.\.\'\ J“ ' '\ ‘ "R'l:'-"3'“""'?H“:‘:‘:€':':-I-I-I-.-I .-I-I-L . _. . . building a hut village on the pro- posed site. 1,000 people have taken ActLoca (IOU up residence in the village and 300 people blocked a railway line likely Balloch Blockade m=o1unmmv to be used by the convoy. Mysteri- Activists from the Faslane Peace ous tunnels have appeared under- Camp, supported by large crowds of neath roads which would cause local people, blocked the nuclear con- them to collapse if the 120 ton voy for 45 minutes at Balloch transporters were to drive over Roundabout on the 29th July. 15 them. Next came a police eviction people were arrested. of the village and a ban on all Hostel under Attack demonstrations. Now after contin- Workers who have occupied the ued campaigning the ban has been Peterloo Housing Association hostel lifted and the transporter contain- for the homeless in Manchester to ers plan has been delayed due to prevent its closure are under threat ‘technical difficulties’. of eviction by the hostel’s manage- Anti roads protestor stops digger at Solsbury Hill, Bath. photo Julia Bayne. Also in Germany, the Earth Lib- ment. The occupation, rnade neces- eration Front has declared 31/1 0/ sary after the Labour controlled city 94 to 6/1 1/94 to be an International council slashed its funding, has re- THINK GLOBALLY Action Week. It's a time of sabo- ceived large public support. tage and mischief... against road Solidarity Works ACT LOCALLY construction, vivisection labs, cor- York postal workers went on light- porations with poor workers‘ rights ning strike on the lst July after a Time to save our beautiful learning from each other. The per- track records (ie. all of them) and shop steward wassuspended - hewas reinstated the same day. And on the planetisrunning out.Weneed sonal is political and living together oppressive state legislation. ELF 20th July a bus driver, sacked after cooperatively is a challenging po- say “It is hoped that with enough to match the bravery and de- arguing with his boss over proposed termination with which Glas- litical act. Direct Action demands imagination groups can create that you trust the people you do it roster changes, was reinstated when wegians are fighting to stop enough chaos to disrupt whole his colleagues staged an immediate with - that’s one of the reasons it’s transport, power and communica- the proposed M77 that would a force for real political and social one-day strike. carve up the 1018 acre Pollok tions networks”. Candid Cameras Contested change. It works; in Britain the M11 Estate in Glasgow. government has delayed one third Glasgow soon will have joined the Meanwhile the campaign to pre- The creation of a rapidly grow- of its road plans due to the power- growingnumber oftowns likeAirdrie vent the M11 continues despite 60 with closed circuit television cam- ing camp in the Pollok woods goes ful Anti-Roads campaign. people being arrested and 10 eras. Four square miles of the city some way to drawing the often Another long established (12 charged on August 2nd after bail- centrewill be under constant 24 hour divided movements for social jus- years) Free Zone is Faslane Peace surveillance. Some crime will shift to iffs and police cleared protestors tice and an undamaged env iroment camp where the struggle against other areas to suit businesses. By from 3 of the houses they've been together. If the road goes ahead the the nuclear menace continues. Con- watching our every move, the cam- occupying in Claremont Road, eras will also be used to monitor dir- people immediately hit will be. as stant direct action and Mass Ac- London El 1, on the route of a link ect action and other demonstrations. usual, the already exploited; folk tions such as the Spiral and Rust road. ' In Glasgow, the anarchists among from the surrounding council es- Actions physically defy the con- others, are opposing this and wel- On the 6th September, 2 men tates will suffer from the raised voys and security guards. come news from home & abroad. levels of pollution and traffic dan- who were part of a gang hired to Foiled burn down an anti-M11 camp last The Girls and Boys ger. The camp began with just one In Gorleben, a small German December, were jailed for 6 years or two people sitting round a tire. Done Well village, the 20 year fight of its between them. However their pay- Tabriz, Iran: late August saw dem- Now the fire is still burning, the residents -with the support ofgrass- onstrators attackpublic buildings, camp has about 20 perm anent resi- masters, who put up £12,000 for roots enviromental groups- con- the raid, have escaped prosecution radio and TV headquarters and dents and there is a sign saying tinues. The government want to due to "insufficient evidence". set fire to buses and bank offices Pollok Free State flying defiantly build a reprocessing plant or to Pollok Free State - write Glasgow Earth after the Basijis volunteer police as you enter. Living communally bury high level radioactive waste Firstl, PO Box 180, Glasgow G4 9AB. attacked women leaving a foot- means that people have got to- Tel. 041 636 1924. in the area. The nuclear industry ball match (women are banned gether for the first time and are No M11, 66 Clarernont Rd., London has been foiled by demonstrators E11 4EE. 081558 2638. from attending matches). 1,0005 Earth First Action Update, dept.29' 1 came onto the streets chanting Food not Bombs Newton St.,Manchester M1 IHW "death to this oppressive regime". WITH over 735 arrests since 1988, San Francisco’s Food not Bombs MCLIARS! continues serving free vegetarian food and advocating the rights of TWO unwaged people are taking on the mighty McDonalds the poor. multinational in a libel trial. McDonalds have sued Dave Since former police chief Frank Jordan began his “Quality of Life" Morris and Helen Steel, alleging that a London Greenpeace MATRIX programme to “clean up" San Francisco for tourism, the tact-sheet libelled McDonalds. homeless have seen their blankets/belongings tossed into rubbish trucks The trial in London is expected to last till at least March 1995. and been ticketed for “camping”, public urination, and simply existing as The opening weeks saw Helen and Dave grilling ‘Big Mac’ - homeless people. McDonalds UK president Paul Preston. Denied legal aid and Food not bombs volunteer Frank McHenry has been singled out and refused a jury, Helen and Dave have still forced damaging admis- been stalked and assaulted by Jordan's cronies , arrested 92 times since sions from McDonalds witnesses. 1988, held on bails up to $75,000, and given such trumped-up charges as It is clear that McDonalds exploit their workers, destroy rainfor- “felony possession of a milk crate" and “felony assault”. The assault ests, produce polluting packaging, cruelly rear and kill animals - all charge occurred when the artery in Frank's hand was severed attempting to make millions from unhealthy junk food. to stop a City Hall glass door being slammed on himself and his 71 year McLibel Support Campaigns are active in Spain, Australia, New old companion. Zealand, Italy and the USA. McDonalds have been picketed The ideals and vision of the group and its 50 N .American sister groups Britain-wide. 15 October sees a national demo in London. are spreading rapidly and gaining support... Show solidarity by - distributing What's wrong with McDonalds PROPOSED INTERNATIONAL GATHERING THE WEEK PRIOR leaflets - attending the court - making a donation - picketing your TO 26 JUNE 1995! On the 50th anniversary of the founding of the United local McDonalds. Nations in San Francisco, protest and organise for human rights! Contact: McLibel Support Campaign c/o London Greenpeace, 5 Caledo- nian Rd., London N1 9DX. Tel./fax 071 713 1269. Leaflets £12 per Contact Food not Bombs, 3145 Geary Boulevard no. 1 2, San Francisco, CA 94118, thousand - 0602 585666. McDonalds Workers Support Group, c/o TU USA. Tel. (415) 330 5030. Frank ]ordan’s tel. no. is (415) 554 6113. Support Unit, Colin Roach Centre, 10a Bradbury St., London N16 8JN. POSTMAN PAT'S DAN DARES FIGHTING BACK DIRECT 80,000 POSTAL workers have walked out unofficially in the last ON 28 September hundreds of Watteau Riot! year to resist attacks on their wages, conditions and organisa- disabled people and their sup- Milan city centre was transformed tion. porters demonstrated in Oldham into a battleground on 10th Septem- Post Office bosses are preparing for privatisation. To make the town centre. They were protest- ber. Clashes erupted bewteen police postal service an even juicier prize for the fat cats in the city and 20,000 demonstrators opposing they aim to shut many sorting offices and cut 6,000 jobs. ing about their civil rights bill the eviction ofthe long standing Leon- The trade union (UCW) has been doing deals with manage- being thrown out of parliament cavallo Social Centre. 5 days laterthe ment and trying to control and stop any effective action. and calling for an end to dis- independent, self-managed social cen- crimination and equal rights for tre was granted a legal lease to their But workers’ direct action has won victories. In late June newly squatted premises in Via P.O. counter workers across E.London struck without a ballot all. Watteau. Direct action pays! Mean- after workers were suspended for refusing to accept cuts in Following the march mem- while spontaneous strikes hit Turin, mealbreaks. Now management have restored the lunch breaks. bers of the disabled peoples Di- Bologna and other northern Italian Also in June 30,000 sorting staff in SE England took unofficial rect Action Network (DAN) cities on the 8th September, as work- strike action. handcuffed and chained them- ers opposed the Berlusconi govern- Disregarding the law, spreading the strikes and involving ment plans to cut pensions. post office users in the struggles - these are the ways forward. selves tobuses on the main street. Blitz Blitzed See Class War 64 for a longer report. Traffic was at a standstill for an Over 2,000 people demonstrated their houras demonstrators foughtoff support for the Blitz squatted com- attempts by the police to remove munity centre in Oslo, Norway on the DON’T TAKE VAT I ...,,...,....‘ them. They are demanding ac- 24th August following the ‘fascist’ ACTIVISTS opposing the Should I $321 bomb attack on it three days before. cessible public transport for all. East Timor imposition of VAT on fuel are be free-” Pay DAN are committed to non- Protests have been held in Darwin, increasing their activity in the Iigflets violent confrontation as a way Australia and London following the run-up to the November postm attack by Indonesian police and mili- of highlighting the discrimina- tary on an unarmed demonstration in budget, which will decide from - tion andprejudice facedby disa- the campus of East Timor university whether VAT on electricity Stock- bled people and bringing about on the 14th July. Three students were and gas bills will double to budge liberation. later killed in custody in military bar- . . N 17.5% 111 April 1995. aw DAN 081 889 1361 and racks. The demo followed harass- Town ment of students by military intelli- Lothian Communities against Solidarity .._,l0_'Ilo|1!Ii a-1 n-I .._,_Ib rum: Inbu lnnnllilitulflllfl III 061 3012695. gence agents. Since invading East VA T on Fuel and Water Privati- NetWO,.k_ if Timor in 1975, the Indonesian mili- sation have published an excellent c;'o Peace and Justice Centre, St. Sign of the times ? tary, supplied with arms by the US, leaflet detailing how people can Johns, Princes St., Edinburgh. Tel. UK and France has brutally sup- collectively refuse to pay VAT. The selective industrial action pressed the East Timorese people. 031 557 0718 (Mike). - Tottenham by signal workers organised in As they say, light and warmth are Solidarity Group, Box 12, 72 W.Green South Africa “basic human needs which Rd., London N15. Tel. 081 802 9804. the FlMT union and their new 300 striking miners staged an under- bosses, Fiailtrack dragged on ground sit-in at the Anglo-American Protecting the ruling class in Haiti through the summer causing owned mine in Carelton near Johan- The so-called restoration of democracy to Haiti is a total fraud. The same rail chaos. nesburg. They were later attacked 5 rich families who bankrolled the junta, and ousted Aristide after his The dispute, as with those in with rubber bullets and stun grenades populist election victory, will be protected by the US ‘invasion’. the health service etc, by security guards. A few fall-guys in Fraph, the death squads encouraged by US Intelligence highlighted the creeping Feral Fights Back 2 years ago, will take the rap for the hundreds of thousands of poor haitians privatisation of former State Croatia’s government has failed to wiped out, or driven to become ‘boat people’(like poor Cubans) - many of enterprises. The solidarity of suppress the Feral Tribune, an anar- whom have drowned . US investment in the island based on wage rates as the signalworkers ensured little chist paper which regularily exposes low as 14 cents an hour will become respectable again, and if Aristide and political corruption and generally his supporters don’t toe the line, the US will throw it's support behind scabbing but despite the efforts makes life difficultfor the HDZ’s(rul- Emanuel Constant, whose role in past Fraph auocities is well documented. of a few Solidarity Groups such ing party's) attempts at strangulating The crowds who welcomed the US troops will be driven to oppose their role as in Dundee there has been the free press. The minister for cul- which as always is to protect capitalism using the illusion of democracy. no community involvement. ture, Vesne Giradi-Jurkic, has re- Likewise other railworkers sorted to branding the paper “porno- I GET INVOLVED I in the RMT and Aslef, the graphic”, forcing its taxes to the high We invite you to write to us, and to the groups listed below. (Write if you want listed traindrivers remained separate levels the state collects from porno- - Active Distro, BM Active, London WCIN 3XX (catalogue 29p stamps & sae) graphic publications. Reports in the - AK Distribution, 22 Lutton Place, Edinburgh (write for catalogue) from the dispute. This meant mainstream press, which commonly" ~ Anarchist Black Cross,POBox 324l,Birmingham B83 DP (prisoner solidarity) that the militant actions seen does contain pornography but has - Anarchist Communist Federation,84b Whitechapel High St,London El 7QX in France, involving both avoided any hassle due to its comfy - Anarchists in London Fax 071 326 0353 (24 hours) to contact Contraflow, 56 unlonlsed and non -unionised relationship with the government, . Infoshop, Anarchist Black Cross, 121 Centre, and Bad Attitude. rail and airport workers wasn't stated that the Feral Tribune had - Angry People, PO Box 183, Waterloo, NSW 2017 Australia. repeated here, as industrial folded but the new issue is already in - Bad Attitude, 121 Railton Road, London, SE24 OL, UK. Tel: 071-978 9057 action was subordinated to a the kiosks. - The Centre, 103 Broughton St., Edinburgh EH1. 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