Banksy's funny/grim 'Simpsons' intro

Last night in the US the latest episode of ‘The Simpsons’ was on telly, featuring an intro storyboarded by the famous graffiti artist Banksy. Personally I have mixed feelings about Banksy. If you’ve never heard of him he’s an artist who conceals his true identity to allow him to continue painting on walls illegally around [...]

Posted by Jack on October 11th, 2010 | 2 Comments Posted in Uncategorized

The free market is insane: Firefighters watch house burn to ground

As if you needed it, more news that will make you glad you don’t live in the land of the crazy, the USA. In Obion county, rural Tennessee, you have to pay an annual $75 fee to be allowed to use local firefighting services. A family which had not paid the fee were horrified to [...]

Posted by Jack on October 7th, 2010 | 1 Comment Posted in Uncategorized

Donald Duck meets Glenn Beck – Glenn Beck's not happy!

“It is some of the best well made propaganda I have ever seen…We are looking into this gentleman and this incredible propaganda against me.” – Glenn Beck Check out the very funny cartoon above. The maker, Jonathan McIntosh, says: “This is a re-imagined Donald Duck cartoon remix constructed using dozens of classic Walt Disney cartoons [...]

Posted by Jack on October 5th, 2010 | 1 Comment Posted in Uncategorized

Flunk Trump this weekend

Billionaire vandal and all round dick Donald Trump has controversially been awarded an honorary degree by Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen. Trump wants to kick people out of their homes (with a little help from his minions in the local council) in the Menie estate in Aberdeenshire, destroying the important local dunes ecosystem in the [...]

Posted by Jack on October 5th, 2010 | 5 Comments Posted in Uncategorized

Demonstrating for Basque human rights

Last Saturday the city of Bilbao in the Basque Country played host to a major demonstration in favour of civil and political rights for the Basque people. Thousands of trade unionists, activists and Basque nationalist politicians took part in the march, which was called after Spanish courts banned pro-independence marches last month, claiming they would [...]

Posted by Jack on October 4th, 2010 | 5 Comments Posted in Uncategorized

CHANGE YOUR LIGHTBULBS OR DIE, YOU SICK BASTARD!

The 10:10 campaign, which urges people to make changes to their lifestyle in order to cut their carbon emissions by 10%, has got themselves into a bit of trouble. They commissioned a short film to promote their campaign, but yesterday were forced to pull it almost as soon as they’d released it after they realised [...]

Posted by Jack on October 3rd, 2010 | 4 Comments Posted in Uncategorized

Cops go on the rampage in Ecuador

Yesterday police in Ecuador tried to seize control of the capital Quito as part of a failed attempt to overthrow the left wing President Rafael Correa. Most of the mainstream media has reported the rebellion as being a protest at “austerity measures”, but there’s lots of evidence that something more sinister is going on. On [...]

Posted by Jack on October 1st, 2010 | 3 Comments Posted in Uncategorized

Millions of Europeans on strike and in the streets

You might not have noticed yesterday, what with the UK news much more concerned about what high paid cushy job David Miliband will be getting next, but across Europe millions of people were on strike and in the streets to protest the austerity policies of the EU governments. Just like the ConDem government here, governments [...]

Posted by Jack on September 30th, 2010 | 3 Comments Posted in Uncategorized

Venezuela: Socialists win the election, but you wouldn't know it from our media

Sunday saw a key test of the strength of the Bolivarian revolution in Venezuela, with elections to the National Assembly. The opposition to the revolution, which is composed of the middle and bosses classes who are angry about losing their monopoly over Venezuela’s wealth and political power, and who are funded by US imperialism, had [...]

Posted by Jack on September 28th, 2010 | 5 Comments Posted in Uncategorized

NEWSFLASH: Spanish state repression against Askapena

Those of you who were at Camp Secret Squirrel this year, or were around in the week or so afterwards, will remember the comrades we had visiting from Askapena, the internationalist organisation of the Basque pro-independence left. Yesterday the repressive police apparatus of the Spanish state was brought to bear on Askapena, with seven members [...]

Posted by Jack on September 28th, 2010 | 7 Comments Posted in Uncategorized
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