The reality is that the offenders were deriving support and encouragement from being together with other offenders and offering comfort, support and encouragement to the other offenders around them. Perhaps too the sheer numbers involved may have led some of them to believe that they were untouchable – Lord Chief Justice Lord Judge, commenting on […]
DIY GUIDE No. 5 Power to the People: Auto-Reduction
Winter is almost here. Sadly, the days of coin-operated electric meters that allowed for knife and string tricks and replacing coins with foreign shrapnel are long gone. So, while 20,000 plus people freeze to death in the UK each year, we can either spend all our money on heating and starve to death, or kill […]
Correspondence
The Art of Correspondence: Letter Writing After a short break, The Paper’s mailbox was full with letters from comrades and fellow travellers both near and far about what they got up to over the summer. — Dear Isabelle, You have asked us to tell you what’s been happening in Spain since 15 May. Well, we’ll […]
A Partners Guide to Prison
A Guide to Prison Survival This guide is a collaborative effort by the partners of some of those convicted in June 2011 at Blackfriars Crown Court, London. It can’t tell you everything, but our lives would have been a lot easier if we’d had a guide like this. Luckily there was a group of us […]
Invite to Collaborative Writing Workshop @ Occupy LSX
Occupy Proposals – Occupy LSX The Paper invites any interested occupiers, activists, writers to a workshop on collaborative writing projects and our current struggles. We want to create an open discussion on what forms of collaborative writing and publishing projects are possible across different movements, how these can be facilitated and organised. —– Tent-City-University | […]
Tower Hamlets’ School Workers’ Strike Against Cuts to Central Services
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]