Sheffield Newswire Archive

Attached are recordings from a meeting organised to discuss and debate the origins of the global economic and ecological crises, and progressive policies to address them, which was held in Sheffield on 24th April 2010 and was organised by the Sheffield Workers Educational Association (WEA).

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Audio and slides from a presentation which traces the historical origins of hierarchy, highlighting the role of the international financier clique in financing European wars. Continues by explaining the importance of hierarchy in education and other social structures such as politics, law and business. It highlights its weaknesses such as wastefulness, proneness to subversion by secret societies & general lack of resilience to disruptions. It examines the role of psychopathic ideologies in furthering sociopathic behaviour, and looks at the hold they have over normal people.

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The latest issue of the Corporate Watch Newsletter is out. The double issue looks at the 'unemployment business'; its protagonists, ideological, political and economic premises and how it is being utilised by the New Labour government to dismantle what’s left of the welfare state. Examining the old and new benefit and employment regimes, it also provides new details and figures about the winners and losers, or the private contractors and their victims. The full text of the articles can be read online or downloaded at  http://www.corporatewatch.org/?lid=3572 .

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Attached is the audio and the slides from a presentation titled 'Law and Sausages: How Not to Legislate for The Digital Economy' that Lilian Edwards, Professor of Internet Law at Sheffield University gave at the Café Scientifique,  http://www.sciencecafesheffield.org/ in The Showroom, Sheffield, on 19th April 2010.

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Two years of capitalist economic crisis have seen a sharp growth of the BNP and the rise of groups like the English Defence League. Existing anti-fascist campaigns have been totally ineffective at stopping these developments. Why?

This dayschool, organised by Workers' Liberty, is an attempt to locate a socialist understanding of the BNP and EDL in the classical Marxist tradition of analysing fascism, and use that tradition to get to grips with the issues confronting anti-fascists so urgently today.

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Activists shut down extraction on a Peat Bog extraction site by locking onto a lorry and a digger. Work was still halted at the time of writing.

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Attached is a recording from the Communist Discussion Group meeting held in Sheffield on 15th April 2010, the subject was alienation.

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Stop Deportation, along with other groups in Europe, are proposing a European Week of Action Against the Deportation Machine, with a focus on joint European mass deportation flights and Frontex. The proposed date is the first week of June 2010, 1st-6th.

The idea is that groups and campaigns throughout Europe organise their own direct actions, demos and marches against forcible deportations from European countries, which are increasingly carried out through joint coordinated 'operations' involving private contractors and shadowy agencies like Frontex and the IOM. Protests will inevitably take a variety of shapes but a series of coordinated, decentralised actions and protests would make the message clearer and louder. A week, rather than a day, of action would allow groups more flexibility to do what they want to do.

By trying to widen the scope and diversity of the groups involved, we also want to draw attention to the fact that anti-deportation is not a 'single issue campaign'. People choose or are forced to migrate for a variety or reasons, from wars and armed conflicts fuelled by the arms trade and western interests, through poverty, exploitation, discrimination, gender oppression, domestic and state violence, to climate change.

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Activists protested against animal experiments at the University of Sheffield. Over 30 000 animals are experimented on every year at the university, before being killed and disposed of.

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Earth First! Summer Gathering
Ecological Direct Action without Compromise
Wed 4th Aug - Mon 9th August 2010, Derbyshire

5 days of workshops, skill sharing and planning action, plus low-impact living without leaders.

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On Friday Sheffield Animal Friends held a demonstration against the sale of foie gras at London Club. The restaurant continues to sell the "delicacy of despair" and we will return until the city is again free of foie gras.

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Mayor Davies’ political party, the English Democratic Party (EDP) are hoping to ride on the back of the Mayoral Election victory and are fielding candidates in 19 of Doncaster’s 21 wards (though Barnsley Bill is not sure why ‘reclaiming Monmouthshire for the English’ would be an obvious vote-winner in Donny..

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The next Communist Discussion Group meeting will be held at 6:30pm, Wednesday 14th April in The Rutland Arms (Sheffield). The topic of the discussion is “Alienation”. Below is a reading list to give you a general introduction to the topic, but by all means also look elsewhere for further information to enrich the discussion.

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The 7th Sharrow Lantern Carnival was held in Sheffield on 11th April 2010, starting in Mount Pleasant Park and ending at the General Cemetery. The first one was organised to mark the first anniversary of the start of the Iraq war in 2003.

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How confusing is it to be a member of the BNP? Just over a week ago, the world was informed that a plot to unseat the leader of the party had been discovered and that a taped telephone conversation between the party's treasurer David Hannam and the its former head of publicity Mark Collett revealed threats of murder and assault and talk of fraud and falsification of accounts, including 'skimming' off printing bills for the party.

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Britain will be hit by waves of “Greek-style unrest” if a Tory or Labour government narrowly wins the election and then tries to push through draconian spending cuts, Nick Clegg warns today. In an interview with the Observer, the Liberal Democrat leader says he fears “serious social strife” would break out on the streets if a government with limited support at the election on 6 May then raised taxes, laid off public-sector workers and froze wages.

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Protesters leafleted people visiting the Natural History Museum on 10th April 2010 regarding the "Veolia Wildlife Photographer of the Year Exhibition" -- Veolia supplies services to the illegal Israeli settlements in Palestine -- they run tramway and bus services linking settlements to Israel and a the landfill site taking settlement refuse.

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