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Corfu garbage-dump protest followup: renewed barricades met with plastic bullets by greek riot-police

20 days after the battle between residents of Lefkimi township in south Corfu and the riot-police over the construction of an open garbage-dump, renewed mobilisation of the residents is once again being met with repression and arbitrary punitive measures such as inhibiting farmers from accessing their fields.

Taking Poverty Seriously: What the poor are saying and why it matters

Article based on interviews with South African shack dwellers about their views of what constitutes 'democracy', stressing the need for those in struggle to set their own agenda rather than have it set by professional activists.

A commitment to justice and democratic governance requires that we listen carefully as much as we speak loudly and act decisively.

Asbo your neighbours!

A member of one of London’s most experienced community action groups has hit out against the ‘hidden agenda’ of a new measure to give ASBO powers to Tenant Management Organisations.

A member of Haringey Solidarity Group, speaking to Freedom Anarchist newspaper, has condemned the government initiative as a cheap attempt to head off a growing community movement throughout the UK resentful of relentless losses of and cuts to services. He said: “. From the community angle anti-social behaviour is a real issue and it’s true it can have a disproportionately large effect.

Corfu garbage-dump protest followup: renewed barricades met with plastic bullets by greek riot-police

Taking Poverty Seriously: What the poor are saying and why it matters

Asbo your neighbours!

"The Land is Theirs"

Anarcho-syndicalism in Puerto Real (review)

Osaka park eviction

2005: Dead city - accounts of Hurricane Katrina

Residents take over! Community organising in Haringey

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