Andy Coles, former #spycop, sexual predator & groomer, mentor to other undercover police abusers, is standing again for election as a local councillor.

@AndyColesFLW is not fit for public office:

theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/f… If you think former #spycop, @AndyColesFLW isn’t a fit person to hold public office as a local councillor:

You can complain to the local Conservative Party @pktories

Email: barnackconservatives@gmx.com
Or
Tel/whatsapp: 07949 146514

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An Open Letter to the Public Inquiry into Undercover Policing, from 92 of us spied on & abused by #spycops

We have grave concerns about the Inquiry process & demand immediate changes to ensure fair, transparent, & effective investigation.

mailchi.mp/6fdf7bcc7cd7/c… We are victims and survivors of abuses by the Metropolitan Police's political undercover unit, the 'Special Demonstration Squad' (SDS), between 1993 and 2008, and the 'National Public Order Intelligence Unit' (NPOIU) and its successors between 1999 and 2014.

@Historyatnight You can read much more on 121 Centre and much more on the social, radical and rebellious side of Brixton life in our series of blog posts (some old texts, some new)
A thread : @Historyatnight Changing, Always Changing
Brixton before the riots part 1

pasttenseblog.wordpress.com/2021/04/08/cha…

@SouthwarkNotes Some of the other places covered in today’s Radical History Faction walk:

Tolmers Square NW1, squatted 1973 on during a battle against property developers SCIT

spitalfieldslife.com/2018/01/24/the… @SouthwarkNotes Joe Levy’s Stock Conversion and Investment Trust started buying houses in Tolmers Square cheap in 1962 and ran the place down. They eventually owned about half the area and the council most of the other half.

No-Go Areas have been in the news a lot recently; this trope is generally (though not always) used to attack migrant communities in inner cities.
London has been mentioned, especially the East End.
Let’s have a look at some historical London ‘NoGo Areas’ shall we?
A thread. 17th/18th century sanctuaries and liberties were areas where usual law didn’t apply: often under old church law or weird economic exceptions.
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@SebastianEPayne @theipaper ‘Intimidation’ of MPs is hardly new. Crowds have been lobbying Parliament for centuries, often aggressively because they were angry. It has long been a routine expression of grassroots political consciousness
A short thread: @SebastianEPayne @theipaper It was an almost weekly occurrence during the 1640s Civil War… including women protesting war and poverty:
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The main gate to the St. George’s Estate, Weybridge, Surrey, now a posh private estate & golf club.
#OnThisDay in 1649, a small group calling themselves 'True Levellers" squatted at St George’s Hill, & began to dig the land and plant vegetables.
More here: wp.me/p74yfw-HF Often called 'Diggers', the ethos of the St George's Hill commune was an egalitarian agrarian communism: they advocated the taking over of waste lands of the manors, by the poor, to be worked collectively, to grow food and raise animals, to feed all, for need, not profit.

Event this Saturday: commemorating a meeting in March 1923, 100 years ago, when Sylvia Pankhurst spoke at what is now The Gunmakers (then an Italian social club "Dondi's") against fascism in Italy, perhaps the first publicly advertised anti-fascist meeting in the UK. The Sylvia Pankhurst Memorial Committee, historian Alfio Bernabei are holding an event on Saturday 25 March 2023 at 3.30pm at The Gunmakers pub, Clerkenwell, formerly Dondi’s Club.

If you're in London, there's a great exhibition on at the Charing Cross Library, London WC2, about British suffragette and communist Sylvia Pankhurst and her life partner, Italian anarchist Silvio Corio, antifascists who denounced Mussolini's regime and infamous war on Ethiopia. Curated by Alfie Bernarbei, it focuses on the exiled community of anarchists, socialists & other activists who made up London’s Little Italy, fleeing authoritarian governments, who linked up to existing radical movements here.

Solidarity with all teachers, university workers, civil servants, train and bus drivers (& any others!) striking today.
Collective action from the grassroots can win!

For information and inspiration here’s some strikes, with disputes, anti-strike repression, a historical thread: We mainly write about London so this thread generally focuses there, 1000s of other stories are out there. Not a comprehensive list, many omissions… add your own tales and links!

Saw this yesterday - in tears for some of it. both a harrowing and heartening film. Nan Goldin’s life entwined with the struggle to hold the capitalophropist scum Sackler family to account for engineering the OxyContin epidemic for profit.

https://twitter.com/curzoncinemas/status/1618651725455310855

Plus the trauma of AIDS among her friends and the scenes she was part of… But rebelling, fighting back, is shown as a lifesaver. Nan’s survival from a suburban fucked-up family and escape into art and the counter-culture/underground is contrasted with her sister’s suicide…

Cost of Living driving you to desperation? Sick of a society where wealthy elites party on the backs of millions who can’t make ends meet?
You’re not alone. Get together. Join unions, form unions, form mutual aid groups. Collective action in our own interests works.
(Continues) Direct action can provide all we need. Let’s seize everything we need!
Some inspiration from London history (mainly: we’re a London history project). A thread. Add your own examples…

41 years since the 10-12 April 1981 Brixton Uprising.
Here’s a series of posts on Brixton, housing, rebellious cultures, racism, policing & resistance.
Not a complete history or analysis…
1. Changing, Always Changing: Brixton before the Riots, part 1: wp.me/p74yfw-1rT 2. In the Shadow of the SPG: Racism, Policing and Resistance in 1970s Brixton

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As there are inaccurate accounts of yesterday's attack on @helensteel12 at @AnokBookfair here's what I saw. Two women came & handed out a leaflet questioning transgender politics, mainly re Gender Deregulation legislation being discussed now.