Combahee River Collective Black Feminist Statement

Black is Crime (Reader A5)

RIP Cathy Rutherford. Glaswegian born and bred and life long trade unionist. A legend by all accounts.

Most of us only ever knew her for one small clip which echoed the feelings of an entire class.

Rest In Power a true queen.

The Anarchy of Colored Girls (Reader) [Saidiya Hartman]

A dabble into DIY Screen printing to make Climate Change Cymru patches of various (and often dubious) quality out of old eco-protest banners.

Lessons learnt
- Water based ink needs a finer screen mesh.
- Some fabrics just really don't work.
- Stretchy bastards are hard to cut.

[London, UK]

One of a hundred plus pre-emptive anti-fascist gatherings across the UK are a list of fascist targets was shared widely.

The fascists have hit the streets in a few places around the Isle but mostly this has been contained and corralled by anti-fascists or the state.

40 Ways to Fight the Far-Right - illustrated (Canadian Anti-Hate Network)

[Brighton, UK]

A gathering of anti-fascists.

The fascists are the four lads hiding in the doorway.

Freedom with the round up here.

As MOSLTY the fascist have either not be seen or in very small numbers.

Croydon is currently dealing with a Police ruck that came out of nowhere according to folk on the ground and Sheffs is having a bit of a to do.

https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/08/07/far-right-weds-roundup/

NO TAV

[Blackpool, UK]

Fascists continue to attempt their great purge. Unsuccessfully.

"It is tempting to think someone is reaching for a “public order win”, after the racist riots caught the government and domestic intelligence community off guard. But we are not on a page out of the German police playbook. The raid was, of course, scheduled according to the campers’ own very public plans, and triggered without too much attention to the news cycle. Never assume they’re playing 4-d chess when it’s blunder upon blunder. " — https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/08/08/climate-camp-raid-two-tier-policing-anyone/

Anti-National Front demo, West Bromwich, 1979 from the British Culture Archive.