Issue 643, Friday 22nd August 2008
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Going Overboard
Shell To Sea activists set up a new Rossport Solidarity camp, to stop the building of Shell's gas pipeline and refinery at Rossport, County Mayo, Ireland.... plus, Smash EDO campaigner Glenn Williams is arrested for playing a protest song outside the gates of EDO-MBM/ITT in Brighton, Anti-coal protesters are finally evicted from tunnels – as the Bodge House squat comes to an end, Kurdish asylum seekers held at Campsfield Immigation Detention Centre end their nine day hunger strike, and more...
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Previous Issues

Issue 642, Friday 15th August 2008
Game, Ossetia, Match
As civilians pay the price for imperial rivalries in Georgia.... plus, round up of the Climate Camp 2008 day of mass action, Five Smash EDO protesters on trial for ‘Conspiracy to Cause Criminal Damage’ found not guilty, George bush tries to change laws specifically in order to endanger animals, and more...
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Issue 641, Friday 8th August 2008
Hoo U Gonna Coal?
As Camp for Climate Action gets stocked up at Kingsnorth, the proposed site of first new UK coal-fired power station for 30 years.... plus - World climate camp round-up, call-out raised to anti-fascists around the country to combat the BNP’s Red, White and Blue festival next weekend in Derbyshire, it's gore blimey as bull fighting stadium collapses, and more...
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Issue 640, Friday 18th July 2008
Down, Wembley Way
The Tent City at Wembley has been evicted but the community led protest against the planned privatised City Academy school goes on... plus - the Derbyshire open-cast coal mine protest is threatened with eviction, Fox hunting monitors in two separate court cases, the Italian court ruling on police violence at the G8 Genoa 2001 protests, UK military plans to assist in fighting local insurgency in Nigeria against the oil industry and more...
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Issue 639, Friday 11th July 2008
FIT for Purpose?
SchNEWS looks at the police Forward Intelligence Team (FIT), who have become a common sight at protests, and a campaign to resist them... plus - the British govt makes it harder for immigrants and asylum seekers to get the free health care, international day of action against private equity firms, the site of a proposed City Academy in Wembley has been re-occupied with a tent city as the locals, and more...
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Issue 638, Friday 4th July 2008
Empire of the Vanities
An outrageous story of greed, lust and structural adjustment as we chart the steady decline of the G8 cartel... plus - Protests against open coal mine in Derbyshire get unexpected Court reprieve, photography is new focus of civil liberty crackdown, Anti-Israel protests at 'Salute to Israel' march in central London to celebrate 60 years of oppression, London resident Binyam Mohamed still in Guantanamo after years of torture, and more...
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Issue 637, Friday 27th June 2008
Hounded
SchNEWS asks who’s harassing who as The Crawley and Horsham Foxhunt seeks giant exclusion zone against local hunt monitors and Wildlife Protection Group, plus - Carmel Agrexco’s UK depot was shut down, anniversary of McLibel trial victory, ten animal rights activists held without charge under anti-terror laws in Austria, and more...
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Issue 636, Friday 20th June 2008
Along For Fluoride
The UK government is intent on expanding the fluoridisation of drinking water, but yet all medical evidence is clearly against this 'forced mass medication'. So why are they doing it? Plus - Austrian animal rights groups targeted by violent police campaign, open-cut coal mining protests in Derbyshire, Hicham Bezza is released, George Bush visit to London kicks off, breakout at Campsfield Detention Centre and more...
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Issue 635, Friday 13th June 2008
Cock 'n' Kabul Story
How the US / UK plan to devastate and then 'reconstruct' Afghanistan is paying dividends (for some)...Plus, Brits prepare to give Dubya a decent send off, BNP festival under threat after anti-fascist actions, government plans to bribe communities to swallow nuclear waste, Guantanamo inmates get right to civilian trial - maybe, and more...
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Issue 634, Friday 6th June 2008
Academic Freedom
As Nottingham post-grad faces deportation after failed terror arrest.... Plus, Full Report into the Smash-EDO Carnival Against the Arms Trade, Animal Rights website owner sentenced to four and a half years, third week of hunger strike for Czech protesters against US 'Star Wars' military bases, Israel at 60, and more...
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Issue 633, Friday 23rd May 2008
Self Defence
Peace activist students on 'aggravated trespass' charges denied legal aid.... Plus, Wrexham woman on the wrong side of the law when she takes plastic chairs from a council tip, Bush visits U.K for last time as president, Nottingham university terror arrest signals wider clampdown, Mass tresspass called on site of proposed Derbyshire Opencast mine, and more...
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Issue 632, Friday 16th May 2008
Sects and the City
Cult friction as police harass anti-scientology protest in London... Plus, Man jailed after massive animal rights conspiracy trial, Cardiff anarchist newsletter 'Gagged' in libel shocker, Brighton squatters in occupied Methodist Church defy bailiffs, Housing benefit snoopers to get latest lie-detecting gear, and more...
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Issue 631, Friday 9th May 2008
Heckler at the Back
Protesters have targeted the Nottingham premises of Heckler & Koch... Plus, activists arrested last year after banner drops in protest against the widening of the M1 have their charges dropped, BASF trying another crop trial of a GM potato, Northern Petroleum trying to drill in an area of outstanding natural beauty in West Sussex, and more...
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