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UK Coal plc Selling Off Prospective Opencast Sites?

The latest July review of prospective opencast sites, mainly in England provides evidence that such is the financial plight of UK Coal that it is actively seeking to sell sites it is trying to gain planing permission for.

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Free space Nether edge sheffield s7

Large mansion 40 priory rd sheffield s7, all amenities ready for occupation

Has Australia Become a National-Security State?

Since the dawn of the nuclear age in 1945 political analysts have predicted that the immense dangers implicit in this technology would inevitably lead to the implementation of police-state tactics.

FBI Agents Raid US Homes in Search of “Anarchist Literature”

When FBI and Joint Terrorism Task Force agents raided multiple activist homes in the Northwest last week, they were in search of “anti-government or anarchist literature.”

Oven Ready Humans

anon@indymedia.org (led) | 04-08-2012 22:55 | Animal Liberation | Sheffield

Earlier today, activists from Derby Animal Rights engaged with Saturday shoppers outside the Guildhall meat and fish market in the centre of Derby, discussing the controversial issue of animal agriculture. In addition to an information stall, two activists were naked, wrapped in meat packaging and labelled up as "oven ready humans", drawing attention to the often overlooked reality that trays of sanitized and unrecognisable flesh in a shop chiller were once living, feeling individuals. There was a blood spattered butcher wielding a cleaver to highlight the inherent violence of the industry and a hard hitting narrative delivered over a megaphone.

The Return Of The King – Tony Blair And The Magically Disappearing Blood

How many war crimes does a western leader have to commit before he is deemed persona non grata by the corporate media and the establishment? Apparently there is no limit, if we are to judge by the prevailing reaction to Tony Blair's return to the political stage.

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Peer 2 Peer Production as the Alternative to Capitalism: A New Communist Horizon

The current crisis of capitalism has provoked protests, revolts and revolutions in major parts of the planet that include 3 billions of inhabitants. Even the mainstream Time Magazine made “The Protester” the person of the year. The caption on Time’s cover reads: From the Arab Spring To Athens, from Occupy Wall Street to Moscow. China, Chile, Spain, England, Italy, India, Israel, Iran and France, among many other places, can be added to Time’s hotbeds of recent social protests.

The protest movements have put alternatives to capitalism on the historical agenda (Hardt and Negri, 2011). This article argues that a section of knowledge workers have already created a new mode of production termed Peer to Peer Production (P2P) which is a viable alternative to capitalism. Although still in its emerging phase and dominated by capitalism, P2P clearly displays the main contours of an egalitarian society. The very fact that sections of P2P activists and ICT workers are also actively involved in the current protests may work as a good catalyst in connecting P2P to these movements.

In P2P production, producers collectively produce goods through voluntary participation in a de-centered, network-based production system. Volunteers choose the tasks they perform; the amount of time they spend on collective production; the place and time of their productive activity. In term of distribution, anyone in the world can use the products for free according to their own needs, regardless of their contribution (Benkler, 2006). This mode of production is very similar to what Marx (1978 a, 1978b) described as advanced communism. Therefore, it has also been called cyber communism (Kleiner, 2010; Barbrook, 2007; Moglen, 2003).

Northern Indymedia Needs You !

northern indymedia collective residue x3 | 01-08-2012 09:10 | Indymedia | Sheffield

Northern Indymedia is short of people and needs new volunteers if it is to continue as a viable project. The collective running this website needs people to step up and take over. Unless this happens, this newswire will soon have to shut down.

The EDL's Latest Fear: Communistic Ray Guns

You've all heard of Muslamic Ray Guns, the inter-Stella weapons that gave EDL thickoes the willies, making them spontaneously piss themselves in public, giving rise to the incredibly-fashionable "Damp Denim Look". Since then, the paranoid losers are calling everybody who opposes them, from anarchists to liberal democrats and even Tories, "communists!".

Meet the brand new anti-fascist weapon that is far more effective at stopping EDLers sleep at night than a family-size nosebag of cocaine.....

New Leeds ABC Leaflet

Prisoners need support. New general-use Leeds ABC leaflet and small poster for notice-boards, etc.

International Call To Action:

“Worldwide Echo in Support of the Zapatistas:
Freedom and Justice for San Marcos Avilés and Sántiz López”

Today, with urgency, we are called upon to mobilize, with our whole being, solidarity and support for our Zapatista sisters and brothers of the community in resistance of San Marcos Avilés

Diggers2012: Activities at Runnymede Eco Village this Saturday

This saturday (28th) we are hosting a range of interesting activities including: wild food foraging, permaculture design, cobbing the Longhouse, a discussion on ‘Sustainability and Land’, plus much more

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Derbyshire to face a new threat of Opencast Mininf?

Derbyshire, which is becoming a new centre for Opencast Coal mining with I site already in operation at Lodge House, an application for another one at George Farm, a possible one at Hill Top now faces the possibility of another one near Renishaw, Staverly and Barlborough.

New Threat of Opencast Mining in Sth Yorkshire

New research for the Loose Anti Opencast Network as revealed the possibility of UK Coal applying for planning permission for an opencast mine within the next 5 years at a site located between Normanton, Agbrigg and Sharleston

LaDIYfest Sheffield presents... Hair Today! Hair Tomorrow? Workshop

We will explore the hairy politics of how women's bodies are being patrolled and controlled by societal expectations to shave and groom in a discussion workshop and zine-making session about body hair.

Reclaim the Fields Summer Gathering

Next weekend is the Reclaim the Fields Summer Gathering!

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Report of the Public Meeting held in Liverpool on June 23rd 2012

PCInt | 11-07-2012 20:54 | Analysis | Birmingham | Sheffield

Chairperson’s address:

Thank-you very much for coming today, to hear our presentation on The Historical Need for Communism.

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How to set up a Workers Co-op - launch event and interview

Attached is a recording of the launch of the Radical Routes book, "How to set up a Workers Co-op", an interview with Cath from Radical Routes, some photos of the event and also a PDF version of the book.

Massive Miners Support in Madrid

Trev | 11-07-2012 10:53 | Birmingham | Sheffield

This article is a summary of the Spanish Miners struggle and the latest march and demonstrations in Madrid today, Wednesday 11th July, 11.50am.

Durham Miners Gala Sat 14th July 2012

Arthur Scargill | 03-07-2012 19:52 | Liverpool | Sheffield

The Durham Miners Gala this year promises to be the largest for decades. Already 100K strong recently, the addition of the Labour leader Ed Miliband is likely to tip the numbers higher still if the weather permits. The bands, speeches, marches, banner, Gala field, funfair etc all allow for a great family day out where old and new comrades meet and greet.

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