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Anti cuts music video: Captain SKA – Liar Liar

October 28, 2010
liar_liar

Share Dark days have arrived in Britain. The coalition government and their toxic flotilla of cuts are ruthlessly hacking away jobs, damaging vulnerable lives and chipping away at the very fabric of our society. We cannot afford to stand by and let this country sail towards a future of inequality. Fear Not! Captain SKA...
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Banner Theatre 1st of May band | Fighting the cuts

October 26, 2010
banner1stMayBand

Share Using the hole in public finances caused by the bailout of the banks as an excuse, the Coalition Government of Public Schoolboys is launching a major attack on Britain’s public services, the welfare state and the living standards and jobs of millions of working people. The truth is that governments throughout the world...
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Struggles For Black Community Film Showing | 29 October

October 17, 2010
StrugglesFBC

Share Friday 29 October, 6-8pm, UNISON, 1 Mabledon Place “Struggles for Black Community” are a series of four films made by director Colin Prescod to chart important milestones in Black people’s fight for justice. They were reissued by IRR in 2008. UNISON will be showing two films from the series, “A town under siege”...
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Cartoon | Resurfacing

October 14, 2010
Cartoon | Resurfacing

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Muhammad Ali | Attica prison riot poem

October 10, 2010
MuhammedAliAtticaPrisonRiot

Share The Attica Prison riot occurred at the Attica Correctional Facility in Attica, New York, United States in 1971. The riot was based in part upon prisoners’ demands for better living conditions, but was led in large part by a small band of political revolutionaries. On September 9, 1971, responding to the death of...
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David Shrigley saves the arts from cuts – and wants you to help

September 11, 2010
David Shrigley Animation

Share Over 100 leading artists – among them David Hockney, Damien Hirst, Anish Kapoor, Jeremy Deller and Antony Gormley – have joined together to fight government cuts in one area where Britain still leads the world: culture. The campaign launches today, with a brilliant new animation by David Shrigley, An Important Message About the Arts, that...
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Zita Holbourne: Resist and rise

September 6, 2010
Demo - Painting by Zita Holbourne

Share We’re living in a con-dem nation Fighting for emancipation They’re ripping the clothes off our backs In just one more attack on attacks Cutting our jobs, our services, our means of living Relentless but expecting us to be understanding cutting the heart out of our community Acting without humanity No step on the...
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Emergency Verse – Poetry in Defence of the Welfare State

September 3, 2010
Emergency verse cover

Share Emergency Verse incorporates over 160 poems by 107 poets in defence of the Welfare State and against the Government’s proposals to cut it by a massive £13 Billion; this e-anthology campaign is also against the proposals to further privatise the National Health Service and to cut over 60,000 jobs from the public sector....
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Union City | Camden Barfly | 25 October

August 31, 2010
Rosie the Rivetter

Share With: My Elastic Eye A Terrible Splendour Niyi Actionism DJ Stix Union City brings together the art of resistance with the resistance of artists – standing up against the effect of the cuts, economic gloom and austerity, getting down with the best of a new generation of radical young artists. Working with trade...
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Claude McKay: If We Must Die (1918)

August 31, 2010
Claude McKay

Share If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs, Making their mock at our accursed lot. If we must die, O let us nobly die, So that our precious blood may not be shed In vain;...
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