Over the past week at Giuseppe Conlon CW House in Harringey London, we have recieived calls of concern, and requests for explanations, following the rioting and looting over the weekend that started in our borough of Harringey and extended across London and then to regional towns in England.

Indymedia Links:
The stench of a Police State -Aftermatch of Riots in UK | London burns - causes & consequences of the riots - an anarchist perspective | 50,000 opposed 3 fold hike of student fees in London | SpanishRevolution comes to Greece Direct Action London on March 26 | Bristol Indy: Analysis of the UK Riots: Life After Rioting
Other Links:
The stench of a police state | Media demand mass arrests, reprisals against UK rioters | Pervasive unemployment and poverty in London areas hit by riots | From brixton to Tottenham | Burning Britain | 4 year sentence for facebook page

PHOTOS from Tottenham, Haringey

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/gallery/2011/aug/07/tottenham-hit-by-riots-pictures

spectacular burning of 100 year old business reported widely by MSM 0.14 Mb More analysis of the riots from stuffit.org 12.62 Mb

Gardaí in Co Mayo have been recorded talking about threatening to rape a woman in their custody. The Gardaí, including a Sergeant, have been prominent in policing protests against Shell’s inland gas refinery.

Audio Recording of the Alleged Threat (edited)


Related Links:
shell's Work Disrupted for 12 Hours in Aughoose Co. Mayo | On eve of judicial review, Rossport Solidarity Camp breaks up shell transport lines. | Tearing Up The Tracks | shell’s work suspended by Day of Action | Urgent call out! Shell have started work-Days of action this Fri 1st & Sat 2nd April | Work restarts in Mayo | 22 TDs gather at gates of Dail to demand reversal of Corrib pipeline consents | Camp Work Weekend and Walk the pipe tour | shells Work Stopped for 4 hours | Rossport Solidarity Camp is Up! | Enda -prove you are for the people of Mayo | shells Work Stopped twice in two days | shell to Sea encourages people to enter Statoil competition | Questions for Politicians | Non Violent Direct Action Training 5-6th March | shell granted planning permission in mayo | shell To sea Solidarity Action Ghent ( Belgium). | Review of the Corrib Gas Project Oral Hearing | Joe higgins interviewed on RT. By contrast, Vincent brown sneers at him and screws shell to sea | Budget Day drama on Kildare Street | People's Alliance march in Tullamore | Four years since baton charge on peaceful protestors

Shell to Sea - Official Website
Rossport Solidarity Camp - Official Website

If you have problems accessing the shelltosea site directly, try going HERE and typing in the web address.

One of the two campaigners shortly before being arrested 0.09 Mb One of the two campaigners shortly before being arrested 0.08 Mb

Nazly Hussein speaks from outside the military courts which this afternoon (Friday 12th March) was supposed to address the people the army harrassed and arrested last Wednesday during a brutal attack on those occupying Tahrir Square. Nazly describes how several hundred plain clothes thugs was deployed against people in the square on Wednesday, who set about pulling down tents and beating people up. The army, under the pretence of ‘protecting’ those remaining in the Tahrir then began beating, arresting and electrocuting people within the the pro democracy movement. Over 170 people where arrested, most of whom where later released without charge. Many had been beaten and tortured with electrocution.

An interview with Nazly Hussien:

Interview with Nazly Hussien 27.6 Mb

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Ongoing protests in Dublin in solidarity with the Egyptian people

Given it is just days away from the election and a new government, most likely to be led by Fine Gael, many are probably wondering what exactly is the current state of Ireland and what are the prospects for recovery. In short, things are bad and a recovery is very unlikely. There are also wider and bigger global issues and we are unprepared and should be doing something about it now.

Related Links: Committee of Public Accounts on Bank Bailout | Additional document list | IEA acknowledges Peak Oil

The only hope is that we have is that there is a public awakening to try and understand what has happened, where we are and the future we are hurtling towards. Only then, is there any possibility of some kind of social revolution to enable us to have any chance of coping with the challenges and by our actions, hopefully we may even trigger an European wide social transformation. But frankly the prospects of this positive development happening are zilch.

When the global credit boom came to a halt and hit Ireland on that fateful day in Sept 2008, Brian Lenihan, at the behest of the bankers made a fatal mistake with the bank guarantee that ensured no (large) debtor would be left behind. It might have seemed like a good idea at the time, but it would only have worked if the global economy bounced back and it was clear it was not going to unless like many mainstream economists who propagate the dominant capitalist ideology of our time, they assumed it was just going to be another small recession in the usual business cycle. But anyone who had been following events without their ideological blinkers on, would have realized this was going to be of seismic proportions.

Egypt's on Fire: The winds for democratic change are strongly blowing in that country to dislodge US/Israeli backed traitor Hosni Mubarak and his Obama picked replacement, Omar Suleiman (also, "Israel's favourite Egyptian", Robert Fisk). Yesterday afternoon in Dublin, Egyptians, Arabs, internationals and Irish people of conscience assembled outside the Egyptian Embassy in Clyde Road, Ballsbridge to give the ambassador and all who care to listen a strong message that Mubarak and Suleiman will no longer be endured or tolerated and both have to go and be replaced with true democracy. Judging from the shuttered and closed blinds of the Embassy windows, denial held sway and the blind eye and deaf ear was being turned to the trumpeting elephant inside.?

Live Coverage: Latest audio from Democracy Now | Feb 11th blog Al-Jazeera | Egyptian Blog Aggregation: http://www.omraneya.net/ | Crowd sourcing coverage | Global Voice Online: Egypt protests 2011 | Asmaa Mahfouz & the YouTube Video that Helped Spark the Egyptian Uprising
Solidarity Demos: Dublin Demo 3:30pm in Solidarity with the Egyptian People | Demo in Galway tomorrow 2pm (11th Feb) in solidarity with the Egyptian uprising Background & Analysis & Commentary: Omar Suleiman—longtime collaborator with Israel and US | Strikes and demonstrations spread across Egypt | The Egyptian working class moves to the forefront | The Arab world is on fire: dialogue with a Syrian anarchist| Arabic version | Johh Pilger: The Egyptian Revolt is Coming Home | US Cables: FBI Trained Egypt’s State Security ‘Torturers’ | Sibel Edmonds: US Material Support to Dictators Who Inflict Terror | CIA Watch | Environment factors: How Banks and Investors are Starving The Third World -food prices was one trigger | From The OilDrum website: What's Behind Egypt's Problems?
Other revolutions in history: Spanish Revolution 1936 | Russian Revolution | The Nasser Revolution | The Gains of Past Revolutions | Revolution in Portugal and here and here