Tag Archives: Anti-Cuts

Viva Placardistas!

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On 26 March 2011, 500,000 people marched through London in protest against government spending cuts. The March For The Alternative was one of the largest demonstrations ever seen in the UK. To mark the day, a group from Goldsmiths university asked to collect peoples placards from them at the end of the demo.

The Indebted Undead Arise!

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100,000s of students in Chile are currently involved in a running battle with their government over the demand for free and equal access to Education and against the ongoing privatisation of the system. The movement has seen everything from huge ‘kiss-ins’: To ‘Thriller Zombie‘ Flash Mobs outside Parliament: The protests have also seen militancy, with [...]

Occupy Wall Street

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A message from our friends at Adbusters: Alright you redeemers, rebels, radicals and utopian dreamers out there, A worldwide shift in revolutionary tactics is underway right now that bodes well for the future. The spirit of this fresh tactic, a fusion of Tahrir with the acampadas of Spain, is captured in this quote: The antiglobalization [...]

Signs of Spanish Struggle

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Some great images, placards and taking over of public space with words, signs and symbols of the Spanish Indignants movement, ‘Real Democracy Now’.

Enrol At The University Of Strategic Optimism!

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One of the delights of the student revolt is the forms of new, imaginative actions happening around the cuts. The University of Strategic Optimism is one such group, using Corporate spaces such as Banks and Supermarkets to hold ‘lectures’ on the destructive effects of the Market on Education, they are, they say, “A University based [...]

Book Bloc Bites Back!

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“The weapon of criticism cannot, of course, replace criticism of the weapon, material force must be overthrown by material force; but theory also becomes a material force as soon as it has gripped the masses” Marx During the recent student revolt in Italy and the UK there has been an interesting piece of cross-border academic [...]

Bee-have! Arts Againsts Cuts Occupies The National Gallery

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During the tumultous day of protest as Parliament voted to enslave a generation as the cost of getting an education, and end Public funding for the Art and Humanities in Higher Education, artists, art school students, lecturers and workers gathered to occupy room 43 of the National Gallery to protest. At 5pm around 250 sat [...]