The School Workers Despite the fact that the cuts are not hitting school workers in specific schools yet, enough people came out to partially or entirely close every school in the borough. After picket lines were held, a few hundred people met at Weavers Fields and got ready to march. I’d walked with my schools […]
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Time Out for Scheherazade
Reflecting on The Paper as a very serious play at theatre; the political as a theatrical serious playing at paper, and 1001 stories to tell, in pictures. Scheherazade Cartoons and Comics As bombs still rain down on Libya, with cockpit-cam night video peep-show footage of tanks being destroyed to preserve the No-Fly Zone on our […]
The UCU Strike
University Lecturers Strike In March this year university lecturers went on strike against the reform of their pension scheme which included forcing employees to pay more while their employers pay less, and ending the final salary scheme for anyone new to the workforce. Picket lines went up in every university across Britain totalling five strike […]
The March that was
March 26 Movement In the following section, we asked several contributors to reflect upon a month of movement. March saw actions at universities continue, resistance erupt on the streets and London play host to one of the largest demonstrations in over a decade. What follows are reports of struggles and also articles discussing the March […]
Asylum in the Economy of Miserable Efficiencies
The imperative to tell of horror means giving up the horror of horror. A false economy of mourning, a gift that returns only more horror for those most at risk. DANIEL MOSHENBERG In the last half-century, the so-called `strong passport’ so-called democracies have turned the application for asylum into a criminal justice procedure. The myth […]
The Arithmetic of Border Control
Immigration and Border Control Joe Rigby weighs in on the debate over the value of different forms of immigration and argues that neo-racism prevents questioning of how immigration came to be constituted as a problem at all. Numbers, limits and caps, or more precisely, their real, purported and/or threatened transgressions, are key operators in the […]
Smiley Culture and Saxon Posse: Police Officer (1984)
Smiley Culture – Police Officer Everytime me drive me car police a stop me superstar True me drive a fiat and a Mercs, Sell weh me Lancia So more time when me go a Esat London fe check some cockneys Them a tell me to produce insurance, license and M.O.T. but me say…….. Police Officer […]
Smiley Culture
Smiley Culture’s death in police raid The death of Smiley Culture when Police raided his home on Tuesday 15 March is a tragedy to outrage and galvanise the Black community and their friends. Two big events so far and another one planned for May 7 mean this call for justice cannot be swept away with […]
Protest Heralds New Age
Adam Hutchings, London to protest March 26th saw one hundred billion people descend upon London to protest the cuts. Said Brendan Barber, leader of the TUC on the largest gathering in the history of mankind, “It was a great turn out.” In Hyde Park, as the march began, Labour’s Ed Miliband said, “This just shows […]
Letters
More lettuce to chew over from our readers. Dangerous Alliances: Class and the Student Movement, Edition Zero is really very interesting and beautifully written. Reminds me of Pasolini’s Valle Giulia but, just like Pasolini’s poem, I think there might be a problem in your argument. Whether you’re from Oxbridge or Croydon shouldn’t count in a […]