Stop the Evictions, Campaigners Tell Edinburgh Council
October 11, 2017
Action Against Austerity Founding Leaflet (July 2015)
Action Against Austerity is a grassroots network of anti-austerity groups based in Scotland. We created this text to found the network but it didn't quite go according to plan...
Migrant Workers Organising in Scotland
Creating Self-Reproducing Movements: #Justice4Carers, migrants’ struggles and beyond.
Defend the Right to be Accompanied at Job Centre Interviews.
On Monday 3rd October (2016) demonstrators will be descending on High Riggs jobcentre at Tollcross in Edinburgh. From noon till 2pm protestors will be insisting that “Advocacy is not a crime” and that the DWP must recognise the right of all claimants to be accompanied at all benefits interviews. What’s this all about?
In and Against the Brexit Regime: Notes From a Week of Migrants` Struggles
In the past two months, a right-wing acceleration of political processes took the name of “Brexit”; in parallel, and almost as a counterpart to this, in the past few weeks a different kind of politics emerged from the workplaces and the real-life of refugees struggles. The geography is these struggles is one defined by resistance to the violence of borders, controls, state-sponsored repression and business-oriented racism. Deliveroo, Byron Burgers, Calais, Ventimiglia, and Heathrow: a line connects those names, a new map of struggles materialising the inequality within and beyond Brexit.
Scottish Govt – Act Now to Stop “Catastrophic Impact” of Cuts on Disabled Community
Disability campaigners and their allies are urging the Scottish Government to act NOW to stop the horrendous benefits cuts being inflicted on disabled people. Following a demonstration at the Scottish Parliament activists from Black Triangle and Disability History Scotland presented a petition with this demand to be considered by the First Minister.
Resisting DWP Pyschocoercion 15TH JULY 2016
Benefit sanctions, workfare, cuts to disability benefits, cuts to benefits for migrants, cuts to benefits for young people…… To the long list of vicious government attacks on benefits claimants, we must now add ….pyschocoercion. The Tribe of Moles thanks Dr Bruce Scott for his illuminating article on this sinister DWP strategy. Encouragingly he concludes by highlighting the resistance which is underway.
Your Money and Your Life
Tribe of Moles is Bella’s new weekly column reflecting struggles against benefits sanctions, austerity attacks and state repression – encouraging resistance, counter-power and autonomy.
