You can shove your rubber bullets…

Wednesday of this week marked exactly a year since the glorious day in November 2010 when thousands of students charged into and smashed up the Conservative Party headquarters at Millbank. A year on – and 11 months since Parliament voted through the £9k tuition fee rise – the student movement was out to prove that [...]

Posted by ImSpartacus on November 11th, 2011 | No Comments Posted in Uncategorized

Glasgow anti-cuts activist gets 18 months… for throwing a kids toy

An anti-cuts activist from Glasgow was sentenced to eighteen months in HMP Wandsworth at a London court on Friday, following his arrest at the March 26th TUC anti-cuts demonstration in London. His crime? Throwing a spent joke shop smoke bomb, picked up from the street, in the direction of a branch of Topshop – apparently enough to [...]

Posted by ImSpartacus on November 6th, 2011 | 1 Comment Posted in Uncategorized

State wins the day in Edinburgh SDL stalemate

There was a definite sense of deja vu in Edinburgh today as the far-right Scottish Defence League attempted to hold their latest ‘demonstration’, with hundreds of anti-fascists gathering to oppose them. But, unlike last time around, the script could’ve been written well in advance for the way in which events would play out today. And [...]

Posted by Liam T on September 10th, 2011 | 9 Comments Posted in Uncategorized

Policing Social Media

You almost have to feel for the police in Scotland over the past few days. Unable to spend their week beating up kids on bikes, shooting each other, executing men in taxis, and ensuring that teenagers are locked up for heinous crimes like stealing bottles of water from Lidl and swearing at cops, polis north of the [...]

Posted by ImSpartacus on August 11th, 2011 | No Comments Posted in Uncategorized

Strathclyde police: quality polis aw the way

Ever feel like you’re being watched? If you’re a politically engaged person in Glasgow you probably are. Every single demo is followed by hordes of cops in uniform, in plain clothes, in mad vans with rotating cameras on top, on horses, in helicopters, on bikes and motor bikes. Sadly Strathy Police recently had their audacious [...]

Posted by David Ward on June 5th, 2011 | 4 Comments Posted in Uncategorized

Police defy dictatorial regime and side with protesters.

Is it Libya? Egypt? Tunisia? No, it’s the USA. It may have been overlooked amongst rioting and protests of a much bigger scale in the middle east, but there’s been a battle raging in Wisconsin between the State Government and its own people. Police were ordered to force demonstrators out of the State Capitol building [...]

Posted by Andy Bowden on February 27th, 2011 | 2 Comments Posted in Uncategorized

Cameron lose your smile, let's do this Egyptian style

Police kettles were smashed, corporate tax dodgers forced to close their doors and Wetherspoons even packed away all their tables in a riot prevention measure yesterday, as militant anti-cuts protests hit Glasgow city centre. Hundreds of people took to the streets in the city, embracing a diversity of tactics in the latest show of opposition [...]

Posted by Liam T on January 30th, 2011 | No Comments Posted in Uncategorized

Clowns are Cops and Cops are Clowns

Remember those cops dressed as clowns who were kicking about a few years ago? Well it turns out apparently that one of them was….a cop! More details emerge every day in relation to “Lynn Watson,” an undercover cop who infiltrated the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army. It comes hot on the heels of the tale [...]

Posted by lovebug on January 27th, 2011 | 11 Comments Posted in Uncategorized

Jody McIntyre rocks.

You may have heard of Jody McIntyre – he is the wheelchair user who was violently dragged from his chair and along the ground twice at the student demonstations in London last week. McIntyre, who has cerebral palsy, was interviewed by the BBC last night about what happened. If you have any confusion about who [...]

Posted by TheWorstWitch on December 14th, 2010 | 2 Comments Posted in Uncategorized

WON'T SOMEBODY PLEASE THINK OF THE ROYALS?!??!

Ever since the news began creeping out – on rolling news coverage and, for a lot of us, jubilant facebook status updates – about the VICIOUS ATTACK on the car carrying HRH The Prince Charles Philip Arthur George, Prince of Wales, Knight of the Garter, Knight of the Thistle, Knight Grand Cross of the Order [...]

Posted by Liam T on December 12th, 2010 | 1 Comment Posted in Uncategorized
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