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Manila Squatters in anti-yuppy riots

Police attack squatters in Philippines slum riot

Thousands of people living in slums in Manila have fought fierce battles with police, who are trying to evict them from their homes in order to make way for a multi-billion dollar project to turn the area into a new business district.

As police moved in to the 72 acre site, residents erected barricades, and fought back the police using rocks, nail bombs, and bags of faeces. The police repeatedly charged the barricades with batons and teargas, but without success. Continue reading “Manila Squatters in anti-yuppy riots”

Egypt: Millions on streets demanding Revolution

by Jerome Roos on July 1, 2013

Military source claims that as many as 14 million could have mobilized across the country, which would constitute the largest protest in world history.

Egypt once more defied all expectations on Sunday, when Tahrir Square was re-occupied and millions took to the streets across the crisis-ridden country in an attempt to push President Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood from power and resume the revolutionary process that was kick-started with the spontaneous popular uprising that toppled Mubarak in January and February 2011. While the protests remained mostly peaceful, the health ministry has reported that at least 16 people have died and 781 have been injured in inter-factional clashes since Sunday. Continue reading “Egypt: Millions on streets demanding Revolution”

Stop Frack Oil! Stop Fossil Fuels! ..Save Earth for our Kids!

99% of scientists agree, to avoid Climate Catastrophe two thirds of known coal/oil/gas will have to

STAY IN THE GROUND.

Yet there is a mad worldwide rush to find and exploit new resources

We are forced to accept fracking, not to mention more and more cars, new coal mines,

power stations and oil fields coming on line. Continue reading “Stop Frack Oil! Stop Fossil Fuels! ..Save Earth for our Kids!”

Open the Box! Far right Politicos to face Jail?!

Luis the Treasurer nicked 50 million euros

When it became clear that Luis Barcenas, ex money boss of the ruling ‘neo-fascist’ Partido Popular, could actually face jail for stealing nearly 50 million euros of public money, he decided to take down a whole lot of other politicians with him. Continue reading “Open the Box! Far right Politicos to face Jail?!”

Spanish Anonymous 3 still await Show Trial

Anonymous Spain: 2 yrs as a criminal org

‘with leaders arrested’

by Marta G. Frank

The prepartaion for trial of the three people who were accused in 2011 of being “the leaders” of the Anonymous cyber-activist movement in the Spanish state is still open.
The June 10, 2011, Manuel Vazquez, curator of the Technological Investigation Brigade (BIT) of the National Police, starring in one of the most hilarious episodes of the history of this body: with a Guy Fawkes mask in hand, announced they had dismantled the cupola of Anonymous, an organization considered a threat by NATO (along with Al Qaeda and the Taliban, in a report published after the Wikileaks scandal). Continue reading “Spanish Anonymous 3 still await Show Trial”

#June30 – towards a real Revolution in Egypt!

#June30 – time for a second revolution in Egypt!

EGYPT will once again take centre stage in the dramatic global uprising against neoliberal tyranny this weekend.

Opponents of the US-backed Morsi regime will be taking to the streets on Sunday #June30 to call for a second revolution – a year after the increasingly unpopular and despotic leader came to power.

There were already chaotic scenes in Alexandria on Friday, as revolutionaries were attacked by government supporters, with reports of at least three deaths and many injured. Continue reading “#June30 – towards a real Revolution in Egypt!”

STOP NOW: All sides Pour arms on Syrian War

As the death toll reaches 100,000 in Syria all sides and their allies are pouring arms into the fire and the US industrial/war machine is desperate to start the bombing. The final logic of crisis capitalism is permanent spreading WAR. Now may be our last chance to protest.

Into the abyss of full scale war on Syria with Tony Blair as outrider

28 June 2013 Matt Carr

The West’s escalation of the war will not bring peace, but death, chaos and destruction on a scale that will dwarf previous ‘interventions’ in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya.

Whenever the Quartet’s ‘Peace Envoy’ Tony Blair makes any pronouncement on the great issues in the Middle East, you can always guarantee that the missile silos are being readied for action. Continue reading “STOP NOW: All sides Pour arms on Syrian War”