Direct Action

Channelling compassion – Calais, solidarity and where we go from here

News just in: thousands of people in the UK are self-organising to help migrants at European borders, mainly in Calais. Since the spring of this year, the British media has been full of people crossing and drowning in the Mediterranean and of the ‘problem’ of Calais; a problem manifested and presented in a number of ways; the suffering and squalor of ‘the Jungle’ camp, the persistent efforts of people living there to get into vehicles headed for ferries or the Tunnel, sometimes in terms of threat, often in terms of the inconvenience to the flows of capital and leisure.

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From A-Z to Counter-Power

This article by Callum Cant is a response to Shelly Asquith’s article on A-B marches. The National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts (NCAFC) is a democratic student organisation, established in 2010, that seeks to co-ordinate a militant Free Education movement based on the activity of grass roots organisations. They called the 10,000 strong demo on

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Housing organising in London: co-ordination beyond opposition?

On 15th-17th October, the international property conference MIPIM came to London for the first time. Mayor Boris Johnson welcomed developers, investors, public and private property owners (including local government,) and others to a gathering of buying and selling two of capitalism’s most enduringly popular commodities; land and buildings. Between 15th-20th of October, the Radical Housing

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