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Viva la Hetherington Libra!

The occupation of the Hetherington Research Club at Glasgow University entered its third day today, and continues to go from strength to strength. The club is now a fully functioning social and educational space, with an ever-expanding schedule of meetings, film showings, discussion groups, workshops and more. Yesterday, the occupation was privileged to get a [...]

Students occupy Research Club at Glasgow Uni

It’s been a hectic few days for the anti-cuts struggle in Glasgow. After Saturday’s frantic day of charging around the city centre for the Glasgow Against Education Cuts organised ‘tour of cuts and cutters’, which saw the arrest of one student activist, early yesterday afternoon dozens of students from across Glasgow reclaimed the former post-grad [...]

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 [...]

Ed Miliband won't even MARCH against cuts

Ed Miliband is the leader of the Labour party, the official parliamentary opposition to the Coalition government. Ed was elected on the back of trade union votes to this position, and relies on the subs paid by ordinary trade union members to keep his party going. So with the Coalition – remember, the ones that [...]

Angry mob storm RBS

A two hour occupation of Royal Bank of Scotland offices in central Glasgow took place earlier today, in protest at fatcat bankers taking billions in bonuses while the rest of us suffer the cuts and austerity of the economic crisis they caused. Around twenty people – including climate change activists, students, 80 year old pensioners, [...]

Romanian witches protest new tax laws.

There’ve been a few news articles recently about new tax laws in Romania, intended as lighthearted LOLs with headlines like Romanian witches to cast anti-government spell. Much of the news coverage has consisted of chuckling at the idea of witches protesting with curses and spells, and aren’t those silly old superstitious women even stupider than [...]

"You've pierced us. You've killed our children's future."

Romanian television engineer Adrian Sobaru today made an impressive stand against austerity measures in his country – by leaping from a balcony into the main chamber of the Romanian parliament, where politicians were debating nearly 25ft below. His protest took place the day after the 21st anniversary of the revolution which overthrew faux-communist dictator Nicolae [...]

Jingle Bells, Vodafone Smells

Saturday 19th marked another landmark in the now epic battle against corporate tax evasion. Dubbed “pay day” by UK uncut the day saw around 55 different actions in towns and cities across the UK targeting big business fraudsters including Vodafone, the Arcadia Group (Topshop, Dorothy Perkins, BHS etc), Boots and HSBC. In Glasgow around 25 [...]

The story of a wasteful chump and his unloved deputy.

Prime Minister David Cameron is a man who talks a lot of shit. He is insistent that we need to cut public expenditure. He claims that he wants the Con Dem coalition to be the greenest government ever. And yet in June, he spent £303,006 of our money on a four day trip to Canada. [...]

“We Need Direct Action to Stop Cuts”: Student Voices from Goldsmiths & Strategies We Need to Beat Cuts

Introduction This article is not intended as a finished piece. Rather, it intended as a contribution to the debate over the organisation, strategy, and aims of the growing movement against public spending cuts in Scotland and Britain, as well as a report from my experience talking to anti-cuts student activists in London. Any comments, formal or [...]