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Student demos: This is just the beginning – what comes next?
The super-fast radicalisation of the student demonstrations caught everyone by surprise. Direct action is on the agenda again and it’s coming from a group people discounted as being “the children of...
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A few notes to the media re: Tunisia
As a sub-editor for more than a decade, I’ve lots of experience reworking copy into a readable form. Sometimes it takes a bit more than fixing the typos and adding proper punctation, sometimes...
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Solidarity with the people of Egypt and the journalists under attack trying...
On Saturday, I attended the demonstration outside the Egyptian Embassy in London and then popped up to the Stop The War rally outside the US embassy. Here’s a video of the speech I gave in my role as...
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Reflections on the 26 March demo
I spent quite a few hours on Saturday, 26 March, walking the streets of London fairly slowly with approximately half a million other people. Some of the time I carried a flag, for a short while I help...
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Solidarity for Christmas
The now annual fight between the X-Factor winner and people with taste for the Christmas No.1 spot in the UK charts was something of a damp squib last year. Following the first failed mobilisation in...
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Not in a union? Here’s how you can support J30
Just over a quarter of all British workers are in a trade union. Up to three-quarters of a million of them will be out on strike this coming Thursday, 30 June (J30). That leaves millions of workers not...
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J30 interview on Indymedia
After some local solidarity in Tottenham where I spoke at the CONEL rally, some marching from Holborn to Trafalgar Square – where a short diversion took me to the demo against Murdoch taking over BSkyB...
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The truth about anarchism
Event: Busting the Myths – learn the truth about anarchism, 7pm, Thursday 11 August, University of London Union, Malet Street, London. Speakers: Donnacha DeLong (chair), Chetna Yuvraj, student...
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For the record – I supported the clean-up operations
Readers of a certain blog on a certain newspaper site might have gotten the false impression that I was against the post-riot clean-up operations in London. On the contrary, I promoted plans for...
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All out for May Day
The Budget is out – tax cuts for the rich on top of trying to destroy the NHS, welfare cuts, tax avoidance, university fees, post-riot sentencing, hackgate, occupy evictions – the reasons to be angry...
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Off your knees, comrades
Trade union banners beside Parliament Square during demo © Donnacha DeLong I’ve given a couple of talks to student occupations recently and I’ve reused a line John McDonnell used at an NUJ meeting...
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