Cambridge Anarchists exclusive in The Wisbech Standard…
Read all about our 2009 trouble-making in North Cambs The Wisbech Standard online here. Expect lots more of the same as 2010 kicks off!
February 8, 2010
February 4, 2010
Kicking off the Anti-Elections Campaign
Cambridge Anarchists have heard of a great way to kick off another season of political bullshit spouted by the political elite:
DEATH TO THE ELECTION
Vote for a Hung Parliament!
The politicians for sale at Westminster have no plans for our future…
Mayday Carnival
2.30 p.m. Parliament Square
Carnival parade starting points:-
Silver Horse drags Cameron from Conservative Party HQ, Millbank Tower, 2 p.m
Red Horse drags Brown from Labour Party HQ, 39 Victoria St, 2 p.m.
Green Horse drags Clegg from Lib Dem HQ, 4 Cowley St, 2 p.m.
Black Horse drags Griffin from Clerkenwell Green, 1 p.m.
Action decided from ELECTION MELTDOWN meetings this weekend. Tough call but I think dragging Griffin’s corpse from Clerkenwell Green does it for me. I’m also moderately excited by the promised hanging,drawing and quartering of the corpses in Parliament Square. Top fucking day out or wot! Spread the word. ~ Ian Bone (ianbone.wordpress.com)
Plus keep an eye on our scumbag ‘leaders’ at EyeSpyMP a ‘Twitter’ website with sightings of the parasites out ‘n’ about. Give those bastards the grief they deserve!
January 27, 2010
Looking back on a year of ANARCHY
Anarchy isn’t all about sitting in the pub talking bollox… sometimes anarchists do stuff as well. Here’s a few highlights of 2009:
18 April- Antifascists go head to head with the BNP- A small group of local antifascists brought the local BNPs day to a very early end. The heavily outnumbered antifascists confiscated £60 the South Cambridgeshire BNPs vile bullshit in St Neots as the naughty Nazis attempted to hold a stall and leaflet around the town. After stern words were had later on, the woeful local BNP failed to show at their next play date the following week, outside Bar Hills Tesco Extra. Raymond Brown the Cambridge Evening News journo scum calls the anti-fascists “THUGS” in his wildly innacurate report.
May Day!- Anarchists organised an intervention at Cambridges May Day march, to pay respects to those that have lost their lives in the class clash. The breakaway march saw 30-40 individuals leave the tedious ‘official’ stroll about town to form a contingent that moved towards the Parkside cop-shop where a G20 arrestee and the grand-daughter of a man killed at Hillsborough spoke. There was then 2 minutes of silence.
15 July- Social Centre- Anarchists and other radicals where involved in opening up the short-lived social centre, in the old Gala Bingo Hall. Unfortunately this experiment in creating a freespace for community use was shut down after a week. The eviction was to make way for more luxury flats for yuppie bastards. However, work on these new ‘flats’ has yet to start.
30 September- Unemployed Workers Union founded- Local anarchists and other working-class militants have been active in the creation of the UWU- a union designed to fight for decent jobs, apprenticeships and improved welfare benefits, while also providing a structure to counter attacks on unemployed workers. The launch of the initiative saw a well attended meeting jam-packed with enthusiasm!
1 November- Party on the Postie picket line- A group of anarchists and other assorted individuals from around Cambridgeshire descended upon the picket line down the Postal Sorting-Office, to show solidarity with the striking workers. Food, drink and moral support were brought in abundance, as the scabs, breaking the picket line, were heckled over tunes blasted out by a bike powered sound system taken down to the line by the anarchists in attendance! Money was also raised to support the struggle.
Plus Cambs anarchos were involved in Climate Camp, going down to support the Vestas factory occupation, getting involved in the Anarchist Movement Conference, trying our best to support the Irish Traveller residents of Smithy Fen threatened by the Council, starting a Green Technology group in Cambridge and going to Greece to meet up with the anarchist movement there. See you on the streets in 2010!!
January 8, 2010
Anti-militarist film night
Cambridge Anarchists will be showing the Smash EDO film “On the Verge” at 8pm Sunday the 10th January at the Cafe Project on Jesus Lane.
The film showing is in preparation for the Smash EDO/Remember Gaza demo in Brighton on the 18th January.
To find out more about “On the Verge” go to the Schnews website here. For detailed directions on how to get to the Cafe Project go online here.
If you would like to join us going down to Brighton e-mail Cambridge Anarchists at cambridge.anarchists[AT]googlemail.com
See you there & see you on the Streets!
December 7, 2009
Fen Class War blog from Greece
Members of Class War Cambridgeshire have travelled to Greece for the anniversary of the murder of teenager Alexi Grigoropoulos.
Follow their live “Twitter” (We always thought that was the noise angry posh people make when they’re angry!) straight from the barricades of Athens! Online at the address below:
Find out more online at Occupied London’s blog www.occupiedlondon.org/blog
November 9, 2009
The here and now- Constructing cultures of resistance
You’d be excused for believing that us here at Cambridgeshire Anarchists love to moan, and for the most part you’re probably right. However we do see, and strive to create, solutions to problems that effect us and attacks on our way of life – whether this is your local pub closing down or your employer giving you pay rises below inflation.
We like to rattle on about something that can be referred to as a ‘culture of resistance’- which is a wordy way of saying that working people (including the workers of the future, unemployed etc) should organise among themselves, as equals, to actively confront their problems head on (direct action)- to survive, resist and fight our own corner in a world organised to take away power from you and I.
People working collectively have a far better chance of succeeding in the struggle against the controllers of society. Through struggling together we can truly appreciate how each of our interests are interwoven into society- ‘an injury to one is an injury to all’, and we’ll develop confidence from seeing what can happen from pitching in and having a greater control over our lives. Plus, it’s always a bit of a laugh getting one up and opposing the rule of your bosses! This ‘culture of resistance’ would provide a safeguard for working people when times come hard and be the fighting spirit of the working population pushing for more and more concessions from the property owning class and their lackeys in government and local government, with the future aim of eventually taking the things necessary to providing a decent life for all and running then democratically- workers control.
However it is important to note that this culture cannot be imposed, it can only be created by people voluntarily associating to protect and further their wants and needs. We have a world to win, so we might as well start fighting now.
This is an individual’s perspective and does not necessarily represent the opinion of the whole group.
November 1, 2009
Support the posties out on strike!
As you will probably know the postal workers have been taking industrial action to save their jobs, pensions and the postal service itself. Cambridge anarchists have been lucky enough to have the opportunity to support our fellow workers in their struggle.
To help support the Cambridge posties picket lines down by the sorting office, anarchists and other supporters went down with a bike-powered sound-system on the 22nd and the 30th (October) which had been used at the Camp for Climate Action in London. Not to mention food, drinks and moral support! There was a festive atmosphere around the fire as we listened to some great dance tunes and heckled the scabs as they went by. We even had a rocket-stove to boil water for tea and cook some food.
We have also been involved in raising money for the CWU strike fund, in Romsey and other parts of Cambridge and alongside the posties and supporters from the Cambridge and District Trades Union Council at the Abbey Stadium when Cambridge United beat Kidderminster 2-0! We have to say that the attitude of many working-class people to the posties strike is either hostility or, much more commonly, simply indifference. In our street collecting it was particularly noticeable that pensioners seemed the most supportive of the posties, not just because many rely on the postal service but also because they have the class consciousness many younger people lack. In fact the almost total apathy on the part of young people was very obvious and worrying.
There was one funny incident with a waddling, angry member of the petty bourgeoisie who shrilly accused us of “not being licensed” to collect money and tried to take our pictures to hand over to the police, accusing us of being criminals. But on the whole, loads of good folk took the time to stop, talk to us and give what money they could to support the strikers.
There will be a meeting of the Cambridge & Stevenage postal workers support group at 7.30pm on Tuesday the 3rd of November at the Maypole pub in Park Street, Cambridge. Come along!
To find out more check out the Royal Mail Chat website as well as “A Letter from a Postman” published on libcom.org
October 1, 2009
The Leveller #2 hits the streets
The second issue of anarchist free-sheet The Leveller has been published.
Contents include a critical look at Cambridgeshire’s boys in blue, a report of the founding of the Cambridge Unemployed Workers Union, immigration police’s car troubles and a look at the RMT’s call for a new working-class alternative to the Labour Party.
September 30, 2009
Cambridge Unemployed Workers Union founded
An Unemployed Workers Union (UWU) has been started in Cambridge to fight for improved welfare conditions.
There was a well-attended meeting in the Earl of Beaconsfield public house on Mill Road, Cambridge, on Friday the 25th of September of the unemployed. The meeting resulted in the founding of a local Unemployed Workers Union. The founders of the new union for claimants reflected the diversity of those on the dole – divided between those on Job-Seekers Allowance (JSA) and those on incapacity benefits.
Cambridge UWU is dedicated to fighting for better welfare benefits, respect in the Job Centre and the scrapping of the government’s National Welfare Reform Bill and “Workfare” schemes. The National Welfare Reform Bill will attack single parents and the disabled who receive incapacity benefits. Workfare, the controversial program to make the unemployed work for theirbenefits (without being covered by National Minimum Wage!), is in the pipe-line to be tested in Cambridgeshire.
The unemployed activists also welcomed the presence of Steve Sweeney, Secretary of the Eastern Region Shop Stewards Network whichfights for rank ‘n’ file power in the trade unions. Steve kindly offered his and the SSN’s help. Itwas felt all round that it was important to build solidarity between all working-class people — employed and unemployed.
You can get involved in the Unemployed Workers Union by e-mailing them at 
cambs_unemployed@worker.com
September 13, 2009
Call-out for Unemployed Workers Union
Unemployed people in Cambridge need a fighting union to resist attacks by the government like the Welfare Reform Bill and the humiliating New Deal schemes.
