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2011: the year we took on the unaccountable elites

The people are fighting back - even Charles Moore wonders if ‘the Left may actually be right’

UG#560 - Cyberluddism (Reclaiming Luddism on the Bicentennial)

This week we look at the goings on in England which started 200 years ago this November, headed by the mysterious figure of Ned Ludd. Why did the Luddites break certain machines but leave others? Why did central government send more troops to crush Luddism that to fight Napoleon in France? But first, the soundtrack of two videos, Robots vs. Luddites and New Technology Whose Progress?'

Transition in Cities and the #SpanishRevolution

Attached are three recordings from the UK Transition Network Conference 2011, which was held in Liverpool from 8th to 11th July.

UG#559 - Famine, The Fruit of Disconnection (Jailing Gardeners, Raw Milk & Soil)

A show on the 'developed' world's fundamental disconnection from the soil that ultimately sustains us all, with an emphasis on the insanity of modern US food laws. Julian Cribb on the global famines ahead, Ivan Illich on soil and virtue, David Gumpert on why FDA agents went undercover for a year to catch an Amish farmer accused of selling raw milk. Then Frederick Kaufman on global food market profiteering by Goldman Sachs and Patrick Holden from the UK soil association on organic food and use of direct action to escape the market model of food provision.

Anarchism: the A word

Mindless, violent thugs, hell-bent on sowing chaos.’ That’s the kind of press anarchists often get. Uri Gordon provides a more sympathetic take on a growing yet still little understood political movement.

#J30 Sheffield Rally at the end of the March

Audio and photos from the rally at the end of the march on June 30th in Sheffield.

#J30 Sheffield March Against Cuts

Photos from the march in Sheffield on 30th June 2011 against public sector cuts.

#J30 Sheffield Rally at start of March

Audio and photos from the rally at the start of the march on June 30th 2011 in Barkers Pool, Sheffield.

UG#555 - Homo Systematicus (Machines of Loving Grace & The World of Conspiracio)

The week's show features two important thinkers on the idea of the world as system. First, a radio adaptation of episode 2 of the new documentary by Adam Curtis, All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace about the social role and flimsy scientific basis of the idea of an 'ecosystem', followed by a short comment by Curtis on the film's main message. Next, Ivan Illich on the institutionalization of society and the loss of people's personal power in the 1980's when people started to see the world as a system.

Sheffield Trades Council March and Rally Tomorrow

Sheffield Trades Council March and Rally 12 noon Peace Gardens/City Hall June 30th

J30 List of UK Protests

Listing from Demotix.

Government attacks access to justice

Sheffield Justice For All | 28-06-2011 23:19 | Public sector cuts | Social Struggles | Sheffield

Second reading of the Legal aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill - MPs urged to fight government plans to cut free legal advice

#J30 Actions Across the UK

Following is a list of actions sent out from

http://www.demotix.com/ for the June 20th strike. Note the publishing page now has a "J30 Strike" topic and there is an archive here http:/

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/actions/2011/j30/

#lulzsec 50 Days of Lulz

We are Lulz Security, and this is our final release, as today marks something meaningful to us.

Britain’s First Cyber-Strike – How the June 30th strike may play out online #j30

June 30th marks a very considerable mobilisation of industrial action in Britain, in the shape of a large public sector strike. The Trades Unions are making their first tentative steps towards politically motivated action for a generation, with a massive withdrawal of workers labour in response to government plans for pensions reform; whilst the pensions dispute is the legal justification for industrial action (under Britain’s strict, Thatcherite anti-strike legislation), in reality the issue is the tip of the iceberg. The consensus behind the strikes is that of a political fight against the cuts in general. The range of action we will see on June 30th will stretch far beyond those “directly” affected by pensions plans, with a cross-section of those worst hit by the cuts expected to engage with the day of action– the disabled, those who face massive reductions to vital welfare benefits, students, schools pupils and parents and other public-service users.

The Revolution Reaches Europe: Tens of Thousands Protest in Greece and Spain

The revolutionary movement that began in Tunisia at the end of last year has now sparked mass movements in Europe; principally, to date, in Greece and Spain. On the surface, these movements have little in common. In Tunisia and Egypt, the people came out in vast numbers to overthrow the hated dictators who, for decades, had strangled their economies and presided over police states, whereas in Greece and Spain, the protestors are not seeking the overthrow of dictators, and are not rebelling against a police state (although both countries can draw on their relatively recent experience of dictatorship).

UG#554 - Homo Miserabilis (From Primitive Affluence to Developed Poverty)

The show this week looks at 'human needs' - a concept so deep as to go largely unquestioned by ideologues of economics and economic 'development'. We start with a reading from an anthropology professor which challenges ideas of 'primitive' people's poverty, before some of an essay by Illich on "Needs". In our second hour, some easier listening - a radio adaptation of a film on consumerism, Shop Til You Drop.

UG#556 - Redefining Poverty (Needs and The Spirit Level)

This week we challenge modern ideas about wealth and poverty. Our main piece is by two English professors, Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett on their 2009 book, The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better. But first, we conclude the Ivan Illich reading from episode 554.

Greek strikes rebellions marches et al

Steve la fevre | 21-06-2011 16:11 | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

Greek power workers go on strike in protest at the privatisation of the State owned power company

Sunderland Working Class Bookfair June 18th

The latest Working Class Bookfair will take place in Sunderland on Saturday the 18th of june, 11-5pm, followed by early evening music from the Summer Tumblers.
Books, barbecues, beer, soft drinks and good company should make for a good day out.

Sheffield Social Struggles Newswire Archive

2011: the year we took on the unaccountable elites

UG#560 - Cyberluddism (Reclaiming Luddism on the Bicentennial)

Transition in Cities and the #SpanishRevolution

UG#559 - Famine, The Fruit of Disconnection (Jailing Gardeners, Raw Milk & Soil)

Anarchism: the A word

#J30 Sheffield Rally at the end of the March

#J30 Sheffield March Against Cuts

#J30 Sheffield Rally at start of March

UG#555 - Homo Systematicus (Machines of Loving Grace & The World of Conspiracio)

Sheffield Trades Council March and Rally Tomorrow

J30 List of UK Protests

Government attacks access to justice

#J30 Actions Across the UK

#lulzsec 50 Days of Lulz

Britain’s First Cyber-Strike – How the June 30th strike may play out online #j30

The Revolution Reaches Europe: Tens of Thousands Protest in Greece and Spain

UG#554 - Homo Miserabilis (From Primitive Affluence to Developed Poverty)

UG#556 - Redefining Poverty (Needs and The Spirit Level)

Greek strikes rebellions marches et al

Sunderland Working Class Bookfair June 18th

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