A Class War demo outside Boris’ Islington home earlier in the month ended in a fight with some drunken tosser estate agents, who subsequently lost their jobs. According to the mainstream media, the local branch of ‘upmarket’ estate agents and uber-gentrifiers, Foxtons - whose windows have previously been a target … Continue reading
Via Act for Freedom Now Berlin, 29th May 2016 Claim: We had an appointment at Alten Jakobstrasse to make our anger at exclusion, expulsion and control visible with paint, stones and fire, as well as our disgust for a city for the rich. The targets of our action were ‘Fellini … Continue reading
Via Linksunten Indymedia and Act for Freedom Now. This is a very informative and important text for all of us thinking about how to fight against gentrification and repression and for spaces in our cities that break the control of states and markets … and about the role squats can … Continue reading
Anonymous submission to MTL Counter-info. “Because Black December is not a staged repetition of previous insurrectional events, but rather a circle of struggle that connects the past with the present, in search of a future where our everyday life will be inundated with acts of attack and rebellion against Power. … Continue reading
Lendlease is the global development mega-corporation building both the planned Wrexham Mega-Prison and the yuppy skyscraper development on the site of the demolished Heygate Estate in Elephant & Castle. At the Elephant, it has an “Experience Suite” showroom to tempt yuppy buyers. This has been targeted a few times now. … Continue reading
Rich scumbag Mark Palmer-Edgecumbe duped people into believing he would be opening a museum celebrating the history of East End women. Instead, he unveiled the ‘Jack the Ripper Museum’, a lurid spectacle about a serial killer and mutilator of sex workers, on the site of a historic battle in which … Continue reading
Positive report from Fuck Parade 3, sent in by a random anarchist who was in the mob. Last Saturday over a thousand people came together at the ‘Fuck Parade’ to resist gentrification and the social cleansing in London’s East End. It was a beautiful expression of feeling put into action. … Continue reading
Great summary on the hostile responses to the Fuck Parade, from Johnny Void’s blog. Rarely has there been a more open display of arrogant entitlement than the alliance of pampered hipsters and Tory scum who have lined up across the media to attack yesterday’s anti-gentrification protest in Shoreditch. From ‘High … Continue reading
Stand up to gentrification! Our communities are being ripped apart – by Russian oligarchs, Saudi Sheiks, Israeli scumbag property developers, Texan oil-money twats and our own home-grown Eton toffs. Local authorities are coining it in, in a short sighted race for cash by “regenerating” social housing. We don’t want luxury … Continue reading
We receive and transmit. Award giving in recognition of services to landlords and their rights. We proudly presented bricks through windows of CJA estate agents in Southville on the night of 31st August. All windows smashed and the international squatter symbol painted on their wall. Because despite the ban on … Continue reading