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Guantanamo actors detained at airport

Actors who played Guantanamo Bay detainees in the movie 'Road to Guantanamo' have been detained under the terrorism act upon returning to the UK from the Berlin film Festival.

Upon Arrival in Luton airport, after the film had won the Silver Bear Award at the festival, the actors were held and questioned using anti-terrorism legislation.

Government defeated? The Terror bill

Following the government's second defeat in the Commons over education, Iain Mackay examines the extent of Labour's supposed "defeat" over its Terror bill last year.

A proposal to extend the ability of the police to detain without trial to 90 days has been defeated. The bill, which lost by 322 votes to 291, was stopped by a major rebellion of Labour MPs.

However, the doubling of the detention allowance to 28 days, a separate bill to supplement the failed 90-day one, passed.

Charge of the New Red Brigade - The Independent on Red Action

Article from The Independent on Sunday about socialist group Red Action, anti-fascism, the IRA and the bombings of Harrods and a Network Southeast train in 1993.

By Matt Seaton, The Independent on Sunday, January 1995

By global standards, 20th Century Britain has been remarkably free from political violence. Red Action hope to change all that. Angry, ruthless and close to the IRA, they preach socialism through terror.

'Terrorism': bad language?

Mairtin O'Cathain reflects on uncritical use of the word terrorist by many on the left, including anarchists and libertarian communists (and Organise! for that matter) and examines the meaning of the words Terror and Terrorism.

From a term applied to the exercise of violence by the state to one that is used to identify the enemies of the state these are now among the most politically loaded words in the English language.

On September 11 and "Against the Double Tragedy"

{Note: Looking back over this, I regret only one phrase, which I think is survivable as this was written immediately after the establishment of the suicide bombers as members of al-Qaeda. Even so the phrasing is poor. Chris Wright, November 29 2005.}

Statement against London bombings

Anarchist statement on the 7 July 2005 London public transport bombings, initiated by libcom.org.

[i]Translations available here: Dutch/Nederlands, Italian/Italiano, Polish/Polski, [url=/other-languages/el-anarquismo-ingles-ante-los-atentados-de-londre

The Personal Act - Pannekoek

Anton Pannekoek writes on the burning of the Reichstag by council communist Marinus Van Der Lubbe (and other possible accomplices) - and discusses what value there is in the tactic of destroying products of bourgeois culture.

From "Persmaterial Van de Groep van Internationale Communisten" #7, March 1933

You can't blow up a social relationship

Caricature of anarchist with a bomb

This essay was was published as a pamphlet around late 1978 or 1979, in the aftermath of the Sydney Hilton Bombing. The black humour of the time around the anarchist movement was that the police and security forces framed Ananda Marga because they came before Anarchism in the alphabet.

The arguments in this pamphlet are still as valid today as when they were written 30 years ago. Reprinting or linking to this text is encouraged.
You Can't Blow up a Social Relationship -
The Anarchist case against Terrorism
Anarres Books Collective

First published (1979?) in Australia by:
LIBERTARIAN SOCIALIST ORGANISATION
P.O. BOX 223. BROADWAY, BRISBANE, QUEENSLAND, 4000

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