Mr Bleaney

Mr Bleaney"This was Mr Bleaney's room. He stayedThe whole time he was at the Bodies, tillThey moved him." Flowered curtains, thin and frayed,Fall to within five inches of the sill,Whose window shows a strip of building land,Tussocky, littered. "Mr Bleaney tookMy bit of garden properly in hand."Bed, upright chair, sixty-watt bulb, no hookBehind the door, no room for books or bags -"I'll take it."

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Workers’ Fightback - Greek “State of War”/Sussex Solidarity/Junk Mail

"All was quiet until the GSEE union boss Mr Panagopoulos took the microphone to address the protest. Before managing to utter more than five words, the hated union boss was attacked by all kinds of protestors who first heckled him and threw bottles of water and yogurt on his face and then attacked him physically like a giant swarm. With bruises, cuts and his clothes torn, the PASOK lackey

The ‘Tackling Anti-Social Behaviour’ Bible

WHAT IS ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR?"Anti-social behaviour means a wide range of unacceptable activity and includes things like vandalism, graffiti and fly-posting, nuisance neighbours and intimidating groups taking over public spaces."It doesn't include decimating communities by closing either public or private industries acting as significant employers in the area. It also doesn't cover foreign

Categories: Anarchism, Political

Artificial Life No.5 - Reviews, The Membranes & Sex Gang Children

Alice In Wonderland (PG)

Directed by Tim BurtonBased on a novel by Lewis CarrollOn general release from 5th March 2010Tim Burton's latest re-imagining of a classic tale actually betrays a distinct lack of imagination.In this specially-created third story in the surreal 'Alice' series (after the original ...In Wonderland, and ...Through The Looking-Glass), the heroine is now nineteen, and believes that her previous

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Free Film Festival coming to a pub near you: 20th March

Edinburgh AFed are curating a one-day, free, film festival on Saturday 20th March at the Banshee Labyrinth on Niddrie Street (formerly Nicholl Edwards). Celebrating “cultures of resistance” across the world, the diverse films share the theme of collective action against political or economic injustice. A conscious shift away from the documentary-heavy format of most activist film [...]

Fashion. Turning Left.

Because nothing says what vain, dishonest, soulless, repetitive, parasitic, empty, futile, destructive, greedy, wasteful, deceitful and hollow industries the fashion and advertising ones are, quite like a fashion advert from 25 years ago.

Categories: Political

Children On Stun - Mondo Weird (CD)

The UK government today announced a scheme to link the latest Japanese mobile phone technology with compulsory ID cards thereby allowing them to track every UK citizen at any time.The technology won't be limited to just location either as it utilises sensors, known as accelerometers, which will allow the government to determine just exactly what it is you are up to.Governmental men in white coats

Categories: Political
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Yarl’s Wood Hunger Strike reaches fifth week. Demonstration in Swansea this Saturday

The hunger strike at Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre has reached a fifth week. Solidarity demonstrations have taken place, outside the IRC itself, at Holloway Prison and around the country, now a legal challenge is being mounted. The hunger strike tactic has also spread to Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre. There will be a protest in support of the [...]

A Communist Response to the Venables Furore

In 1993, two year old James Bulger from Kirkby near Liverpool was abducted, tortured and murdered by two ten year olds, Robert Thompson and Jon Venables. The horrific case provoked understandable revulsion from the general public. Politicians gleefully seized on it to further their own agendas.Then Shadow Home Secretary Tony Blair promised that a Labour government would be "tough on crime,