(Reclaim the Night (RTN) is a women's annual global march to protest men's sexual violence. It is held in a number of cities in Australia on the last Friady of October. This report comes from Sydney) I have to admit to being disappointed by last Friday's Reclaim the Night rally (31st October). The combination of heavy traffic holding up the truck and sound system for the speeches at Town Hall, and the threat of rain keeping people away got the evening off to a shaky start, and it was all down hill from there. Reclaim is not an autonomous march, which surprised me, but I think I could have dealt with that were it not for the fact that it ended up being completely ...

organising: Casualisation Kills ---- Figures released recently by the Health and Safety Commission for 2006/7 indicate an 11% increase in workplace-related fatalities, compared to the previous 12 months. Of the 241 deaths reported to the Health and Safety Executive, the 2 sectors with the highest number of fatal injuries were: ---- * Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing (8.1 deaths per 100,000 workers) ---- * Construction (3.7 deaths per 100,000 workers) ---- Both industries, not surprisingly, employ a high proportion of casual migrant labour. Casualised labour is cheap, flexible and serves the bosses’ interests by maximising their profits. At the same time it undermines basic rights and ...

Friday, Nov.14, at 11h in the morning we distributed 200 A4-size leaflets in front and around the building of the Economy and Comerce Section of the Greek Embassy, in the center of Lisbon, leaving some of them inside the building also. The leaflets included a small introdutory text to the prisoners' struggle, a few of their demands, and a chronology of the events until that day. Besides, it also included the following text: ---- Prison is everywhere, in all our life. Constantly we are watched, controlled, identified, listened… it is the cop, the surveillance camera, the court, the judge, the police station, and our entire reality of forced interactions. It is the fear of being what we are, of saying ...

Once again, capitalist society happily violates its own legality in the affair being known as the anarcho-autonomous movement, following the arrest of 10 people as part of an investigation into acts of sabotage on SNCF railway lines: the presumption of innocence blithely ignored; the use of ultra-repressive measures provided for by anti-terrorist legislation in a case which is evidently nothing to do with terrorism; charges of criminal association on the basis of a mere collection of political documents without any concrete facts to back up this evidence! Large sectors of the media, the political world and the judiciary allow this to happen, or even approve, showing that the ...

The Government is pushing ahead with its plans to make us pay for the economic mess caused by its good (sic) self and its greedy cronies. As this email goes out plans are being put into place to bail out the Irish banks and their incompetent boards and senior managers. But guess who is going to pay? That's right... The Government have you and me in mind. And, in this particular case too, they have our children in their sights as well. There isn't a family who won't be affected by these cuts SO now is the time to get out there and protest. The pensioners and OAPs showed the way. Let's follow their lead. This Saturday the next in a series of protest marches against the Government ...

After the success of the Northern educational it was suggested that the AF hold a public event celebrating anarchist ideas. It is going to be a big event with the all encompassing theme of celebrating cultures of resistance both internationally and at home. Speakers will be coming from across the country (and the globe) to speak of their experiences in class struggle and the focus of the day will be very much on the lessons that can be learned from our ideas in practice. The year also coincides with the 25th anniversary of the miner's strike, the 40th anniversary of the end of the Spanish Revolution and the 20th anniversary of the Battle of Bogside. These events will be incorporated as ...

Comment: Death by Superbugs: The scandalous legacy of NHS funding cuts, performance targets and privatisation ---- If one thing reflects the sorry state of the NHS today more than anything else, it is the superbug epidemic. According to recent figures, hospital superbugs like MRSA and C-Difficile are now responsible for 5,000 deaths per year, with up to 100,000 other patients being infected. ---- Following the Commission for Healthcare Inspection’s revelations of 90 deaths due to C-Difficile between 2004-6 in Tonbridge and Kent NHS Trust, there was a public inquest. One key causal factor identified was the Trust’s preoccupation with performance targets, which in turn led to practices like ...

Palm Island man Lex Wotton was sentenced to six years jail after being found guilty of `rioting with destruction' by an all-white jury in a Queensland court. In 2004, Mulrinji Doomadgee, a 36-year-old Aboriginal man, was arrested for public nuisance by Senior Sergeant Chris Hurley. Within an hour Mulrinji was dead in a cell in the Palm Island police station with four broken ribs, a ruptured spleen and a liver almost torn in two. Another prisoner, Patrick Bramwell, told a public meeting on the island that he had seen Hurley beating Mulrinji. ---- A week after Mulrinji was killed, island residents heard that an autopsy had found that his death was the result of an accidental fall. ...

Palm Island man Lex Wotton was sentenced to six years jail after being found guilty of `rioting with destruction' by an all-white jury in a Queensland court. In 2004, Mulrinji Doomadgee, a 36-year-old Aboriginal man, was arrested for public nuisance by Senior Sergeant Chris Hurley. Within an hour Mulrinji was dead in a cell in the Palm Island police station with four broken ribs, a ruptured spleen and a liver almost torn in two. Another prisoner, Patrick Bramwell, told a public meeting on the island that he had seen Hurley beating Mulrinji. ---- A week after Mulrinji was killed, island residents heard that an autopsy had found that his death was the result of an accidental fall. ...

In the midst of a serious situation, with great instability on economic, political and social levels due to another crisis in the world financial system, which has already spread to the real economy and with no end in sight, our country is immersed in an endogenous crisis. ---- This endogenous crisis has still to be duly analysed at theoretical and practical levels (mainly for guiding action) by the non-authoritarian left, the left not compromised with neo-liberalism. ---- As a matter of fact, our country is historically a country with the past of a colonial empire, but it was soon neo-colonized by various powers. ---- In the post-25 April 1974 epoch, the shift towards the EEC meant ...

The FdCA Labour Commission met in Cremona on 8 November 2008, at the CSA Kavarna, Via Maffi, Il Cascinetto. The meeting saw the participation of workers and union activists from the regions of Lombardy, Emilia Romagna and Marches and e-mail contributions from Liguria, Marches and Tuscany. The following document was passed by the Commission. ---- We're not paying for your crisis! Widen the conflict, link up the struggles, on to the General Strike! The crisis in world finance is creating new negative records every day, while the governments repeatedly insist that we must have trust in them, that it's not over yet, that it will all work out for the best in the end. In the meantime, ...

Members of anarchist group Autonomy Solidarity from Goldsmiths University joined other students and revolutionaries to take action last Friday in London at the news that the government would be leaving 40,000 university goers without funding. The mainstream media have largely played this down as cutting back funding for ‘the middle class’ which is a nice way of saying the Labour Party is going deny the grants they threw us as a sweetener when they brought in top-up fees. How Scotland can afford not to charge top-up fees is left unexplained. The truth is this is part of a drive to gradually remove any kind of link between state or ‘public’ (i.e. taxpayer) funding and education. Instead they want a ...

QueerBash Back! cordially invites you to the marriage of the gay assimilationist movement to the State on January 20th, 2009. The gay ruling class has been committed to the State for many years, and this January they will try to make us all make the ultimate commitment to violent, oppressive institutions on the eve of a new Democratic Party regime. Yet few realize that this is an arranged marriage: the assimilationist elite have claimed to speak for all queer and trans folks, yet as outcasts and rejects of commodified, mainstream gay culture, Bash Back! Says NO! to marriage to the State. We know that whether a Democrat or a Republican rules over us, queer and trans liberation cannot be obtained by ...

In his 1992 book, What Uncle Sam Really Wants, Noam Chomsky attributed the role of the US administration in its interventions in places like El Salvador, Chile and Nicaragua in part to the desire to negate the ‘threat of a good example’. He argued that these countries were showing their neighbours that ownership of the means of production could be retained within the country rather than handed over to US multinationals, and that it was possible to run a country reasonably successfully without it being a de facto colony of the US. Such ‘good examples’ had to be crushed as soon as possible, lest the lesson should spread. Various methods have been used in pursuit of this purpose over the years, from ‘agent ...

Mutiny is an anarchist collective based in Sydney. We started this zine to explore different avenues of disobedience resistance, to encourage people to write about their ideas, actions experiences. ---- Mutiny began as an anti-war collective. We're currently exploring ways to resist gentrification, in particular the `redevelopment' proposed in the Redfern area by the Redfern Waterloo Authority. We're keen to work with other people opposed to this redevelopment the displacement, racism, rent hikes ugliness it involves. We meet regularly: please contact us on the address below. ----Editors this month: Marshall Cinque, Mambutu, Max Solidarity, SourDough, Graf Cat, Princess Mob, ...

Last night the at the Revolutionary Autonomous Communities fundraiser for the Anarchist Bookfair at the food not bombs warehouse on 6th and Santa Fe was raided by the LAPD. They kicked open the door and unlawfully entered in to the private space. Joaquin Cienfuegos a member of RAC and Copwatch LA Guerrilla chapter was targeted by the police and pulled out from the space. When folks inside the space heard what was going on in front they went over to observe and document what was going on. Joaquin asked why he was being detained and they told him to Shut up and Do as he's told. He was handcuffed and searched without his permission. While he was being searched Joaquin stated loud and ...

18th of November an action against repression of anti-fascistswill take place at Metro Station Novokucnetskaya in Moscow. Action will begin 16:00, and will demand freedom for anti-fascist prisoner Aleksey Olesinov. Aleksey is imprisoned for more than 10 days already, and has been held incommunicado by authorities, his lawyer Stanislav Markelov has still not been allowed to meet with him. Health condition and conditions in which he is kept are not known to his relatives and friends. Friends of Olesinov are certain, that he is persecuted due to participation to anti-fascist activities. ---- Aleksei Olesinov was arrested 6th of November, and accused of hooliganism, according to statue 213, ...

If you have any comments about the content, or any other issues, please e-mail or write to us. ---- Al Bangura, Watford FC and the Asylum System ---- Dear Direct Action, ---- As you know, Al Bangura, Watford FC's midfielder, has been refused asylum and faces deportation back to Sierra Leone. It was really heartening to see Watford fans show their support with banners and placards, and I'm glad for Bangura [now granted a work permit – eds.] that he has the full support of his team and manager, Adrian Boothroyd, who are trying to do everything they can to overturn the deportation decision. ---- However Boothroyd's quote: ---- This country seems to allow anybody in to send benefits ...

International anarchist communist statement on the global economic crisis and G20 meeting, endorsed by Alternative Libertaire (France), Federazione dei Comunisti Anarchici (Italy), Melbourne Anarchist Communist Group (Australia) and Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front (South Africa). ---- 1.The current crisis is typical of the crises that regularly appear in the capitalist economy. Overproduction, speculation and subsequent collapse are inherent to the system. (As Alexander Berkman and others have pointed out, what capitalist economists call overproduction is actually underconsumption: capitalism prevents large numbers of people from fulfilling their needs, and so undermines its own ...

The divergence of activities included additions to the regular joint struggle against the separation fence and occupation at Bil'in, Um Salmuna, and Ni'ilin. This week activists of the Anarchists Against the Wall initiative participated in the struggle against the Israeli state forces and the colonial settlers in Hebron region in relation to the olive picking (12,14/11/08). Friday there was a road blocks removal action near Deir Ibzi organized by Ras Karka comity. On Saturday was another action related to the 5 refusnics high-school in the women army jail. Sunday was the day the Jayyous village, which was most active 2002 when the construction of the separation fence was started, resumed the struggle. ...