Rioters face down police

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

Maghberry prison

Maghaberry jail is where Irish Republican prisoners in the Six Counties who did not agree with the Good Friday Agreement remained while the Provisions walked out under the terms of the Agreement. Subsequently their numbers have been swelled by others also opposed to the GFA. Although the British and the Northern Ireland Executive's Justice Minister deny they are political prisoners, they call them "Separate" because they are separated from non-political prisoners within the jail. After broken agreements, ongoing harassment and violent and physically intrusive body searches, the prisoners now escalate their protest campaign.

Related Links:
The August agreement | RNU about prisoners in Maghaberry | Justice Minister defends body searches | Statement Maghaberry CIRA prisoners | United solidarity protest outside Maghaberry Jail 5th June 2011 (with Pól Mac Adam singing “Back Home in Derry”, lyrics written by Bobby Sands | “When I Get Out”, track from Ciaran Murphy’s CD “When We Take Control“ |

IRMS illegal use of force, they have no jurisdiction on the public road

Friday 22nd July Shell brought a digger and a port-a-cabin into the existing temporary compound in Aughoose. This is in preparation to start building a permanent compound in Aughoose from which they hope to start digging the tunnel for the pipeline which will connect Ballinaboy refinery to the 70 kms of offshore pipeline. They will come in full force on Monday 25th July, please come up to Mayo and show your support! A mass day of action is planned for Friday 29th July, but come up any time.

Related Links:
Shell start work at Arghoose compound in Erris - day of action called | Mayo County Council steal caravan from Rossport Solidarity Camp at 3am | Occupation of Shell peat storage facility in Mayo | Shell Office Blockaded for 6 Hours | "Take him! Take him!" - The Trial of Éirígí's Daithí Mac An Mháistir | Impromptu 2 hour tractor occupation at Shell Compound | Shell Offices blockaded for five hours | The Strange Adventure of Dick and Liz in Drumshambo | Fracking in the Lough Allen & Clare Basins | Shell compound occupied for 9 hours – third action in two days |

It has been said that we live in a business run society which is characterised by business parties masquerading as political parties and a 'political class' that implements policies which more often than not puts the interests of 'big business' ahead of the well being of the general populace. The unprecedented nature of bank bailouts in this country along with continued and debatable payments to bondholders with an apparent absence of serious public consultation let alone a referendum on matters with such wide-ranging and generational consequences seems to lend some credence to this characterisation of modern society.

Related Links:
Morgan Kelly tells it like it is AGAIN. Essential reading. | Show me the money | Tahrir comes to Spain | Reflections on President Obama's Visit to Ireland. | Come celebrate a decade of resistance to Shell | willing slaves |
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FRU Group Photo

The Force Research Unit (FRU) was a covert military intelligence unit set up by the British Military of Defence sometime between 1979 and 1981. Its motto was ‘Fishers of Men’. Its remit was to recruit and run double agents in the paramilitary groups in the 6 counties. At its peak the FRU had up to 80 officers and about 100 support staff dealing with hundreds of informers. The FRU were in collusion with loyalist paramilitaries during the 1980’s and 90’s that led to the murder of dozens of catholics including high profile solicitor Pat Finucane. Despite having been exposed in British Tribunals and in the press of collusion with loyalist paramilitary gangs, a rebranded FRU has been involved in illegal operations in Iraq and Libya showing that the British establishment not only knew about the collusion but also actively encouraged it and rewarded those of its officers who were engaged in these activities.

Related Links:
South African arms | The story of Brian Nelson | The Stevens report (pdf) | Gordon Kerr (times online) | illegal surveillance operations in the Irish Republic | Brigadier Kerr ‘led rogue spying on Russia’ | the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes |