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1 May 2021… After lockdown, let’s look at the situation we’re finding around us [London, UK]

London. UK. The pandemic has been the starting gun of a huge project of capitalist restructuring in which we are rapidly getting lost. London is already well within the bounds of being a ‘smart city’ — this means that every molecule in this seething metropole is in the process (or already) brought into one great artificial network: capitalism certainly, but largely virtual, nearly autonomous, diffused into everything around us, and into ourselves, into our bodies, into our minds.

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London, UK: Squatters Occupy Clapham Common Police Station

London. UK. March 21. 2021. A group of squatters have occupied the former Clapham Common Police Station in London to demand the withdrawal of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill and the end of the femicide.

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London, UK: People’s Front – Solidarity with Dimitris Koufontinas!

London. UK. We received a text and a few images from an action in solidarity with Dimitris Koufontinas at the Greek embassy in London.

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London, UK, March 1, 2021: Action in solidarity with hunger and thirst striker Dimitris Koufontinas [video]

London. UK. On March 1 an action in solidarity with hunger and thirst striker Dimitris Koufontinas took place at the Greek embassy in London.

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London, UK: Four squats evicted just before Xmas

London. UK. Today [December 21] four separate squats were evicted in London. One being the mutual aid community free shop [pictured] in Harringay that was very close to our hearts. They illegally evicted us, as they didn’t tell us we had court on 17 December.

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Green Solidarity: Learning from the GRASS experience – GAF does #London Bookfair 2020 [Video]

London. UK. Video of a workshop with Green Anti-Capitalist Front as part of the London Anarchist Bookfair 2020.

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#UK (& beyond…): The real enemy

UK. London. Regents Park in London contains probably the richest street in the city. Many of the mansions here are said to be ‘worth’ £165 million. Many of these large properties are empty, while just a mile away people are left to sleep in doorways.

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#COVID19: No going back to “business as usual”

UK. For years we had to accept “austerity” as Britain didn’t have any money. Ordinary people had to “tighten their belts” while the rich became super rich. But Britain was “skint”. We ‘couldn’t afford’ pay rises or increases in benefits. Hospital beds were lost, NHS staff were treated like scum. Jobs we knew were important were seen as “low skilled” so bosses paid minimum wage and use zero hours’ contracts. Prisoners and asylum seekers were “evil” so the only option was to lock them away.

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