Dolla Dolla Pills

Today’s Daily Record reported on something I’ve been seeing for months as a pre-registration pharmacist. If you’ve ever seen Michael Moore’s documentary Sicko, you’ll have seen how capitalism causes many Americans to have substandard or even a total lack of health care. In the Scottish pharmacy I work in, however, I have seen capitalism’s effects [...]

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 [...]

How do you steal £6 billion? Get Tory mates!

As we already reported, yesterday SSY was instrumental in setting up a totally successful day long piece of direct action against the cuts. Across the entire UK yesterday groups of people came together to shut down Vodafone stores. For an idea of what was going on elsewhere, check the site that set the whole ball [...]

Shut down the tax dodgers on Saturday

Dear Vodafone, Re- Unpaid overdue taxes totalling £6 billion. THIS IS YOUR FINAL WARNING. ACTION WILL COMMENCE WITHOUT FURTHER CORRESPONDENCE. Despite being given ample opportunity to pay what you owe to the people of the UK, you have still made no attempt to repay the outstanding balance of tax which you hid in a Luxembourg [...]

Vodafone store shut down by anti-cuts activists

Protesters today shut down Vodafone’s flagship shop in London, after it emerged that the government was going to let them dodge £6 billion in tax, just as it is taking £7 billion away from the poorest in the UK through benefit cuts. Vodafone set up a subsidiary company in Luxembourg to try and avoid paying [...]

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 [...]

The Mighty Mighty Climate Camp

I’ve just returned from 5 days of occupying the land of the Royal Bank of Scotland, a piece of direct action that yesterday successfully achieved its objective of shutting down RBS’ headquarters. On Monday when we looked across at the building we could see there was nobody working there apart from cops and security guards. [...]

Scientists say GM dialogue is a front for industry

Two scientists have now resigned from a group charged by the Food Standards Agency with having a “public dialogue” about genetically modified foods. Last week Dr Helen Wallace, who is part of the think tank Gene Watch UK, resigned from the steering group for the project, and Professor Brian Wynne, who was the group’s Vice [...]

Obama and the spill

As Leftfield previously reported, the US is currently undergoing one of its worst environmental disasters of all time. Last month, an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico started an oil spill of gargantuan proportions. For weeks huge quantities of oil have been pouring into a pristine natural environment, devastating [...]

Car crash reveals anti-corporate anger in Russia

On February 25th a fatal car accident killed two well known gynecologists in Moscow. The crash was caused when their Citroen was smashed into by an armoured Mercedes that contained Anatoliy Barkov, Vice President of Lukoil, Russia’s largest oil company. Very quickly the police attempted to cover up the accident in order to protect his [...]

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