Last week's riots revealed anger but also the weakness of our class. We must inspire disaffected youth with a vision of a different society, says Callum Williamson Urban riots, such as those we witnessed over four nights last week, rarely result in a positive outcome for our class and at worst can lead to tragedy. The ...
Police and Glasgow University management were left embarassed yesterday by a remarkable turn of events. After bosses called in the police to forcibly evict students from a seven week long occupation, the evictees marched a few hundred metres up the road, took over the university's main building and, after refusing to back down in negotiations, ...
Chris Strafford identifies a virtual split in the ruling class over current police tactics that we should use Following the death of Ian Tomlinson at the April 1 G20 protest, the policing of recent demonstrations has come under close scrutiny. After their initial account of the incident was exposed as clearly false, thanks to the numerous ...
Ted North explores the background to unrest against a state regarded as endemically corrupt Recent explosive events in Greece were not a revolution. Nor were they a half-revolution. But they were in their own way a quarter-revolution. And all sparked by a single bullet. On December 6 2008 a police ‘special guard’ shot and killed ...
As well as the platitudes and compromises from bourgeois politicians, the G8 featured protests from thousands who want ‘another world’. Carey Davies reports Firstly, the positives: last week’s protests around Heiligendamm surrounding ...