A �corporate social responsibility� insider speaks out
Corporate social responsibility sounds like the start of a Bill Hicks set, but the concept has underlined some of the largest propaganda efforts to resuscitate ailing company reputations of recent times. In the below interview, Corporate Watch spoke to an industry insider who has worked with some of the world�s biggest multinationals to find out.
Why do corporations produce corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports and publicity?
They use� Continue reading
Book review: Against Doom � A Climate Insurgency Manual
by Jeremy Brecher ISBN: 978-1-62963-385-5 PP: 128 Publisher: PM Press 2017 �11.99
Easy to read 100 page book about how to collaborate and proactively work to stop the end of the world?�?or at least the extermination of humanity?�?aka climate change. Clearly committed to non-violent direct action, there is a lot here that could be useful for anti-capitalists and� Continue reading
�Fifth Act� marks Chile insurrectionists� embrace of Project Nemesis
At the end of last year one of Europe�s most infamous insurrectionist anarchist groups, Conspiracy Cells of Fire, announced it would be shifting tactics in its near-decade long campaign against the Greek State in a campaign it dubbed Project Nemesis. The group, which has claimed upwards of 300 attacks against �targets of domination� since it emerged in 2007-8, said it would be shifting away from symbolic targets of� Continue reading
Interview: Ray Luc Levasseur on Tom Manning of the United Freedom Front
Luther Blissett interviews former UFF member Ray Luc Lavasseur on the ongoing situation of Tom Manning, one of two remaining prisoners from the Marxist insurrectionist group (the other being Jaan Laaman).
American prisons try to silence and kill political prisoners slowly and painfully. Right now, that is what Federal Bureau of Prisons and the Warden of FCI Butner Medium II are trying to do to� Continue reading
The Rolling Resistance full month roundup
The Rolling Resistance month of action against Cuadrilla�s controversial attempts to frack for gas in the Lancashire countryside drew to a close today � though it won�t be the end of the campaign to stop energy giants from imposing their will on the public in the name of profit. Freedom rounds up some of the goings on of the month below, which saw near-daily lock-ons, truck surfing, parties, rallies and� Continue reading
France: The Intergalactic Week of Zad
The quiet, wildlife-filled countryside just outside Notre-Dame-des-Landes, north of Nantes has been a point of massive contention between various French governments and the country�s environmental direct action movement since 2008, when permission was granted to build a �580 million airport serving as �the international gateway� to Western France.
Squats and camps sprung up on fields due for the rumble of the bulldozer in the early 2010s, and it came� Continue reading
Greek anarchists hit out at Syriza crackdown and Irianna jailing
Last month a PhD student named only as �Irianna� by the press was jailed for 13 years for being a member of Greek insurrectionist group Conspiracy of Fire Cells. The case has caused uproar across the country as the 29-year-old language student, who says she has no connection to the group and is not an anarchist, was convicted on the basis of a single, partial fingerprint on� Continue reading
Book Review: The Day the Country Died � A History of Anarcho Punk 1980�1984
by Ian Glasper ISBN: 978-1-60486-516-5 PP: 496 Publisher: PM Press, 2014 �19.43
There are many great things about Ian Glasper�s The Day the Country Died: A History of Anarcho Punk 1980�1984. First, it�s convenient and persuasive to be able to read about a number of related bands in the same book. Don�t have to search here and there for information. Second, it�s solid seeing an� Continue reading
Peterborough Mayor bans public from meetings over spycop councillor protests
Having suspended a chaotic council meeting last week amid noisy protests demanding the resignation of former spycop (and current councillor) Andy Coles, Peterborough Mayor John Fox closed today�s planned meeting to the public entirely today fearing �equally disruptive� actions.
Mayor Fox, who was himself a former police officer with the Cambridge force for 23 years and only retired as a community police officer last year, serves with Mr Coles as� Continue reading
The edge of precarity: Squatting in England and emergency crisis planning
In recent decades squatting has been under near constant assault from a variety of ruling class actors. In 2012 the Conservative/ Liberal Democrat government banned squatting in residential properties for the purposes of living. Councils, Conservative and Labour alike, treat squatters as a public health issues and pressure property owners to fast track evictions. The (still) rising property market in London and other major cities has incentivised owners to use� Continue reading