Category: Wales

Heres the pdf — http://lists.riseup.net/www/d_read/gagged/gagged18.pdf
audio to fol­low in the next few days.

some last minute diary dates:
Sat­ur­day 6pm — Social Ecol­o­gy sem­i­nar ‑at the PAD, An intro­duc­tion by Social
Ecol­o­gy Lon­don
Sun­day noon — after the fry up at the PAD a pre­sen­ta­tion on this years
cli­mate camp, films, talks etc etc
Mon­day 8pm — South Wales Anar­chists forum — a net­work­ing gath­er­ing with
reports from all the local groups & cam­paigns. All wel­come. 8pm, Glam­or­gan
Staff Club, West­gate Street, Cardiff. If what you read in Gagged! inter­ests
you, why not come along!
Tues­day 7pm — at the PAD read­ing group sub­ject ‘Tur­bu­lence’ see
www.turbulence.org.uk

GAGGED! #18 • August 2007• www.gaggedanarchist.tk • FREE
Pro­duced by South Wales Anar­chists • southwalesanarchists.org

War on Ter­ror = War on Civ­il Lib­er­ties

South Wales cops have asked the Home Office for inva­sive pow­ers to stop & search peo­ple in Cardiff fol­low­ing ter­ror attacks in Lon­don & Glas­gow Air­port. In a move which echoes politi­cians’ calls to extend intern­ment with­out charge, the police here are using the ter­ror attacks as an excuse to extend their pow­ers & fur­ther strip away civ­il lib­er­ties. Sec­tion 44 of the Ter­ror­ism Act gives the plod unprece­dent­ed stop & search pow­ers & has already been mis­used to has­sle demon­stra­tors & oth­ers.
Speak­ing at the begin­ning of July Divi­sion­al Com­man­der for Cardiff, Chief Super­in­ten­dent Josh Jones said: ‘Com­mu­ni­ties defeat ter­ror­ism & I ask any­one who is stopped by a police offi­cer over the next few days to help us by engag­ing pos­i­tive­ly & pass­ing on any infor­ma­tion that they may have.’

How­ev­er, Assis­tant Chief Con­sta­ble Giles York also said: ‘We have seen sev­er­al well inten­tioned calls to the police & I am very encour­aged at the vig­i­lance being shown by the pub­lic of South Wales , par­tic­u­lar­ly as there is no spe­cif­ic threat to the area.’

Does any­one else see a bit of a con­tra­dic­tion here? They’ve asked for pow­ers to stop & search peo­ple because of the threat of ter­ror­ism, while at the same time admit­ting there is no threat to peo­ple in Cardiff . This is oppor­tunist non­sense. The cops are yet again using people’s very real fear of ter­ror­ism as an excuse to get more pow­ers for them­selves.

Know your rights

If you’re stopped & searched under Sec­tion 44 of the Ter­ror­ism Act 2000 you have spe­cif­ic & clear rights that cops will ignore unless you make it clear you know them. They may try & get you to give them your per­son­al details, & they may attempt to pho­to­graph you – they are not allowed to do either. Here are some point­ers pro­vid­ed by the civ­il rights group Lib­er­ty:
• The police can only give you a pat down, remove out­er clothes (eg: jack­et, hat) search your bags, & have you emp­ty your pock­ets
• You do not have to give your name or address.
• You do not have to explain why you are there.
• You are not allowed to flee the search, but you are not required to be active­ly com­pli­ant. You are allowed to “go limp” as pas­sive resis­tance dur­ing the search if you do not wish to com­ply.
• There is no per­mis­sion to col­lect DNA data dur­ing the search.
• You do not have to com­ply with any attempt to pho­to­graph or record you (although you can­not wear a mask).
• Women can not be touched by male police dur­ing these search­es.
• Make notes about the offi­cers search­ing you — name, num­ber, & police force.
• Note the time & the events pre­ced­ing the search.
• Note the spe­cif­ic word­ing used by the police to explain their author­i­ty to search.
• Ask police for the rea­son that they are search­ing you. Specif­i­cal­ly, are they search­ing for ter­ror­ists or are they sim­ply try­ing to deter, delay, or incon­ve­nience you?
check out: www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk

Plod Spread Ter­ror Fears

South Wales Police have been bleat­ing to the press about the increased lev­el of calls from fright­ened mem­bers of the pub­lic about so-called ‘sus­pi­cious’ behav­iour. Instead of appeal­ing for calm or just keep­ing their mouths shut, they’ve encour­aged peo­ple to remain ‘vig­i­lant’ against unknown or non-exis­tent threats, & report every para­noid fan­ta­sy to the police.

Assis­tant Chief Con­sta­ble Giles York said: ‘It is not only my offi­cers mak­ing South Wales a hos­tile area for any ter­ror­ist activ­i­ty, but also our com­mu­ni­ties. The pub­lic are our eyes & ears & we are grate­ful for the efforts they have tak­en to report any­thing which is slight­ly out of the ordi­nary.’
Exact­ly what are the best nuggets of ‘intel­li­gence’ a fright­ened pub­lic have passed on to York & his team?

‘We have received calls from busi­ness­es who are report­ing unusu­al pur­chas­es’, he said. ‘One super­mar­ket in South Wales noti­fied us of a group buy­ing a large amount of dig­i­tal cam­eras. In anoth­er call, the man­ag­er of a shop­ping cen­tre noti­fied us of a call he had received in which he was asked for maps of the cen­tre.’

Dig­i­tal cam­eras & maps of Cardiff ? Be afraid. Be very afraid.

York added: ‘Both of these calls turned out to have gen­uine expla­na­tions but I encour­age any­one to get in con­tact with us if they have any con­cerns, no mat­ter how triv­ial they may seem.’

Nobody is ille­gal

A Kebab-house was closed & 5 take­away work­ers arrest­ed when cops & immi­gra­tion bureau­crats raid­ed Cardiff’s ‘Chip Lane’ at the begin­ning of July.

One work­er at Dorothy’s Fish Bar said: “There have been lots of police here, at least 20 offi­cers. They sealed off Car­o­line Street at both ends & have been through all the take­aways look­ing for ille­gals. They checked all the staff’s pass­ports & their sta­tus.”

It isn’t known what peo­ple were nicked for, they could have been so-called ‘ille­gal immi­grants’ or asy­lum seek­ers await­ing Home Office approval to stay in the UK. Under cur­rent laws refugees are not allowed to work or earn mon­ey while their appli­ca­tions to stay are processed, hav­ing to live off tiny state hand­outs. If they work, they are forced into low-pay­ing menial jobs, & if dis­cov­ered they are arrest­ed & deport­ed.

Asy­lum seek­ers are often from coun­tries where there has been mil­i­tary inter­ven­tion by the West or regimes armed & sup­port­ed by the UK. Noth­ing can jus­ti­fy the suf­fer­ing that is imposed on inno­cent peo­ple like those arrest­ed in Cardiff in the name of ‘immi­gra­tion con­trols’. The rich will set­tle in whichev­er coun­try makes them pay the least tax, but the poor are forced to risk their lives to try & make a bet­ter life for them­selves. As Anar­chists we believe in com­plete free­dom of move­ment.

Pick­et lines

Roy­al mail staff in Wales took part in the 1st UK wide postal strike for 11 years on 29th June with anoth­er 24-hour strike begin­ning at 7pm on 12th July. Work­ers are angry at Roy­al Mails ‘mod­erni­sa­tion’ plans, which will result in the loss of 40,000 jobs & cuts in wages & pen­sions. It will also mean high­er stamp prices, less col­lec­tions, lat­er deliv­er­ies, cuts in week­end ser­vices & the clo­sure of even more post offices.

*****

A high school in Den­bighshire, north Wales, was forced to close as teach­ers staged a one day strike. Indus­tri­al action came fol­low­ing a long run­ning dis­pute over new pay arrange­ments intro­duced in 2006 & seri­ous con­cerns with work­ing prac­tices at the school with many staff feel­ing “demor­alised & under­val­ued”. Sound famil­iar? Ah the pre­dictabil­i­ty of cap­i­tal­ist work­ing rela­tions.

*****

Strike action at the trou­bled Grampian Food Group fac­to­ry, Llangefni, Angle­sey was can­celled at the last minute after work­ers accept­ed a 4% pay deal in a bal­lot on the 25th June. Work­ers were due to strike on 26th, 27th & 30th June because of dis­putes over pay, pen­sions & the grow­ing casu­al­i­sa­tion of the work­force.

*****

Health work­ers across the UK are still con­sid­er­ing strike action over a pay rise deal well below the rate of infla­tion. Ear­li­er this year health work­ers were offered a mis­er­able 2.5% pay rise. This was cut even fur­ther when both the gov­ern­ment & employ­ers said that in Wales, Eng­land & North­ern Ire­land this would be staged — with a 1.5% increase giv­en from April & the final 2.5% set­tle­ment paid from Novem­ber. How­ev­er, fol­low­ing work­ers com­plaints & union pres­sure the respec­tive gov­ern­men­tal bod­ies of Wales & North­ern Ire­land were forced to make u‑turns & health work­ers in these coun­tries will now receive their pay rise in full back­dat­ed from April. This does not yet apply to health work­ers in Eng­land. UNISON has con­duct­ed a bal­lot of its health work­er mem­bers (460,000 across the UK) for poten­tial indus­tri­al action sched­uled to take place in Sep­tem­ber 2007. Watch this space!

*****

Hos­pi­tal work­ers at Ysbyti’r Tri Chwm, Ebbw Vale held a demon­stra­tion out­side the hos­pi­tal in protest against £120-a-year car park­ing charges for staff, which were intro­duced in April. A spokesper­son for the Gwent NHS trust stat­ed that charg­ing for car park­ing was now stan­dard prac­tice at near­ly all NHS hos­pi­tals in south Wales & that there was a need to main­tain equi­ty with staff in oth­er hos­pi­tal sites who already pay charges. But many work­ers feel that they are being charged for the priv­i­lege of going to work & that park­ing should be free for all staff, patients & vis­i­tors. Too right!

“Wales?” Same old tory Sto­ry

David Cameron’s “New” Tories have appoint­ed an Eton-edu­cat­ed hered­i­tary peer who knows “absolute­ly noth­ing” about Wales as Welsh Affairs spokesman. Lord Glen­toran, who lives in North­ern Ire­land , said, “As far as the pol­i­tics of Wales is con­cerned, as of 48 hours ago I knew absolute­ly noth­ing. I now know noth­ing, plus a bit. I know noth­ing about the pol­i­tics but I know quite a lot about the geog­ra­phy.” he denied this was a prob­lem as he had once stayed with a “lit­er­al­ly work­ing class fam­i­ly in Bris­tol“ when he was 16, before join­ing the Army. You couldn’t make it up!

NO PIPELINE!

On the morn­ing of 19th June a huge num­ber of police & bailiffs arrived at the anti-pipeline tree camp in Sen­ny­bridge, Bre­con Bea­cons, to evict pro­test­ers from the trees.

The camp has suc­cess­ful­ly pre­vent­ed the destruc­tion of wood­land in the Bre­con Bea­cons Nation­al Park, on the route of the huge LNG pipleine, since Jan­u­ary this year. Pro­test­ers were tak­en to court in ear­ly June & had been await­ing the evic­tion. Some peo­ple were locked on high up in the trees whilst oth­ers were under­ground in tun­nels in order to delay Nation­al Grid’s mul­ti-mil­lion pound destruc­tive & dan­ger­ous project.The A40 road that ran past the camp was closed to traf­fic & police & bailiffs spent two days remov­ing the activists. Many peo­ple head­ed down to give sup­port but few made it onto site, most being kept in a police cor­don out­side with jour­nal­ists.

In total 12 peo­ple were arrest­ed, most receiv­ing cau­tions or con­di­tion­al dis­charge with a court fine. Nation­al Grid instant­ly began strip­ping away the land in order to pre­vent any­one occu­py­ing it again. Per­haps they for­get that the route of the pipe is 200 miles long…plenty of room for more resis­tance!
The camp was suc­cess­ful in rais­ing aware­ness of how the gov­ern­ment & cor­po­ra­tions are pri­ori­tis­ing mon­ey over the future of our envi­ron­ment. Any claim they make to be tak­ing cli­mate change & envi­ron­men­tal destruc­tion seri­ous­ly becomes a joke when they hap­pi­ly over­rule objec­tions so they can destroy sup­pos­ed­ly ‘pro­tect­ed’ nat­ur­al land to make way for yet more fos­sil fuels. Check out: www.fightthepipe.co.uk

Who watch­es the watch­ers?

Five secu­ri­ty guards work­ing in Welsh Assem­bly build­ings, Cardiff were caught using CCTV cam­eras to look at near­by homes & hotels. While this has been going on for around two years, the voyeuris­tic secu­ri­ty guards have received noth­ing more than a slap on the wrist. An assem­bly spokesper­son claimed that these were “iso­lat­ed” inci­dences, which were not thought to have infringed any­one’s pri­va­cy. We bet the peo­ple whose hous­es were spied on feel a whole lot bet­ter now!

Wel­fare for the Rich

Work­ing class peo­ple in Wales are sub­si­dis­ing pri­vate indus­try not only through wage slav­ery (where the pay we take home is much less than the val­ue of the work we do), but also in huge pay­outs to busi­ness­es fund­ed by our tax­es.

Tax is meant to be cash we lend the state so that they can pay it back to us in essen­tial ser­vices, edu­ca­tion, health­care, & pen­sions. But politi­cians are giv­ing mil­lions to the rich so they can set up more busi­ness­es.

For 5 years the Welsh Assem­bly Gov­ern­ment has giv­en mil­lions of tax­pay­ers’ mon­ey to busi­ness in the form of Assem­bly Invest­ment Grants (AIG) & Region­al Selec­tive Assis­tance (RSA). Dur­ing the first 4 years of the scheme’s oper­a­tions, over 1504 offers of AIG with a com­bined val­ue of £45.8 mil­lion were made to busi­ness­es. In the 7 year peri­od to March 2006 1173 offers of RSA with a com­bined val­ue of a whop­ping £650 mil­lion were made to busi­ness­es under­tak­ing cap­i­tal invest­ment projects in Wales.

These bribes for boss­es are typ­i­cal of the way in which gov­ern­ments oper­ate. Sweet­en­ers for the rich might look attrac­tive to politi­cians, & might even boost the econ­o­my & cre­ate a few jobs in the short-term. But in the long-term the peo­ple of Wales lose out big-time: Once prof­its at these sub­sidised busi­ness­es start to fall they close down their fac­to­ries, sack the work­force & move on to places where the labour is cheap­er & new gov­ern­ment sub­si­dies are to be had.

Under “New” Labour the gap between rich & poor has widened mas­sive­ly. Pay­outs to the rich are a major cause of this inequal­i­ty, the wealthy few can enjoy lives of com­fort & extrav­a­gance while 3 mil­lion British chil­dren live in pover­ty.

COME CAMP WITH US!

Organ­is­ing & strug­gling in our local com­mu­ni­ties is key to build­ing strong social move­ments & bring­ing about last­ing social change. But we also need to con­tin­ue to come togeth­er in mass mobil­i­sa­tions. It is at con­ver­gence spaces like the ones at the recent anti-G8 protests (see Gagged! #17) that we get a glimpse of our col­lec­tive pow­er. They offer us the space to organ­ise & come up with solu­tions to social & envi­ron­men­tal prob­lems with­out the need for lead­ers, where togeth­er we can cre­ate new worlds in the shell of the old. This sum­mer there are at least two major protest camps in the UK — come camp with us: you know you want to!

CAMP FOR CLIMATE ACTION

On 14th-21st August, some­where near Heathrow the 2nd Camp for Cli­mate Action will take place, with 8 days of low-impact, sus­tain­able liv­ing, learn­ing, col­lec­tive deci­sion-mak­ing & direct action to high­light the prob­lems of cli­mate change & solu­tions to halt it.

Cli­mate change is hap­pen­ing now. Peo­ple are dying of starv­ing now. Envi­ron­men­tal refugees are mov­ing now & accord­ing to the Red Cross already out­num­ber those dis­placed by armed con­flict. The sit­u­a­tion is only going to get worse — unless we act now! If we car­ry on with busi­ness as usu­al sci­en­tists pre­dict a pos­si­ble 6 degree rise in tem­per­a­ture. Last time the plan­et expe­ri­enced this was 250 mil­lion years ago & 95% of all life was wiped off the face of the earth.

Our entire way of life is cur­rent­ly struc­tured so that almost every aspect of our lives pro­duces harm­ful car­bon diox­ide emis­sion — trav­el, work, hous­ing, food. In order to cut these emis­sions by the 90% that many sci­en­tists believe nec­es­sary, some very major changes need to occur. So where is this change going to come from? We believe that far from offer­ing any solu­tions to our cur­rent eco­log­i­cal cri­sis gov­ern­ments are part of the prob­lem. Nei­ther can we expect cor­po­ra­tions or the mar­ket to offer any real solu­tions. Although we all need to make changes in the ways we live, it’s not enough just to switch brands. We need to chal­lenge the log­ic of cap­i­tal­ism, which got us into this mess in the first place. Cap­i­tal­ism is based on a very sim­ple prin­ci­ple — per­pet­u­al eco­nom­ic growth. This leads to the con­stant over pro­duc­tion of goods & ser­vices that we just don’t need, the con­sump­tion of the world’s finite resources & ever grow­ing amounts of waste that our ecosys­tem just can’t deal with. Expect­ing cor­po­ra­tions to sort this out is absurd. They are designed for one thing & that is the max­imi­sa­tion of prof­it.

The avi­a­tion indus­try is a major con­trib­u­tor to cli­mate change. The main rea­son why the camp will be at Heathrow this year is to high­light the mas­sive con­tra­dic­tion of the gov­ern­ment claim­ing to be work­ing to reduce emis­sions while set­ting the con­di­tions for huge growth in fly­ing, through air­port expan­sion & sub­si­dies on air fuel, which has stim­u­lat­ed a mas­sive increas­ing in cheap flights.
Last year’s camp was a huge suc­cess (see Gagged! #13). Activists from south Wales joined over 600 peo­ple to take direct action against Drax pow­er­sta­tion, the UK’s largest car­bon diox­ide emit­ter & explored, debat­ed & dis­cussed grass roots alter­na­tives to the cur­rent sys­tem. Let’s make this year’s camp an even big­ger suc­cess! Togeth­er we can build a bet­ter world now! Check out: climatecamp.org.uk

No Bor­der Camp 2007

On 19th-24th Sep­tem­ber will be the UK’s first “No Bor­der Camp”, con­tin­u­ing the tra­di­tion of No Bor­der protest camps across the world since the late 1990s. The gov­ern­ment has recent­ly announced its plans to build a new deten­tion cen­tre near Gatwick air­port. This will be anoth­er in a long list of such places around the world. Places where peo­ple are locked up indef­i­nite­ly & with­out tri­al, & from where they can be forcibly deport­ed. Such deten­tion pris­ons are an inte­gral part of a sys­tem­at­ic, racist, & bar­barous pol­i­cy of suf­fer­ing. Togeth­er we can stop this one being built!

The camp will be an exper­i­ment in self-organ­i­sa­tion. A chance to work togeth­er to stop the build­ing of a new deten­tion cen­tre & gath­er ideas for how to build up the fight against migra­tion con­trols. It will be an impor­tant oppor­tu­ni­ty to chal­lenge & over­come the arti­fi­cial bor­ders of class, race, sex, sex­u­al­i­ty, & nation­al­i­ty which divide us from each oth­er, & act in sol­i­dar­i­ty with one anoth­er for a world with­out bor­ders.

‘Free­dom of move­ment’ is such a scary prospect for the wealthy few because migra­tion under­mines a cen­tral dimen­sion of con­tem­po­rary glob­al cap­i­tal­ism — that peo­ple liv­ing in dif­fer­ent parts of the world can be paid dif­fer­ent wages. Bor­ders, migra­tion con­trols, notions of cit­i­zen­ship & the ‘rights’ that these entail are all inte­gral mech­a­nisms through which this unequal, exploita­tive world sys­tem is main­tained. With­out them there would be no way of con­fin­ing peo­ple to a cer­tain place, a cer­tain set of work­ing con­di­tions & rate of pay. Check out: www.noborders.org.uk

COPWATCH

Cop Wankers Part II
Last month Gagged! report­ed how PC Richard Bowen got away with an 18 month sus­pend­ed sen­tence & avoid­ed jail after mas­tur­bat­ing in front of an arrest­ed woman in the back of a pan­da car. He was ordered to do 100 hours com­mu­ni­ty ser­vice as a painter & dec­o­ra­tor on the estate where he grew up. Let’s hope he doesn’t run out of wall­pa­per paste. This month we can reveal that yet anoth­er UK rozzer, Essex Police’s Mar­tin Chap­man, has been sus­pend­ed for the same thing. It must be some­thing about the uni­form. There is a sil­ver-lin­ing though: a few more like this & they might all go blind.

Gwent Cops on Tax Pay­er-Fund­ed fun
Mem­bers of the Gwent Police were liv­ing it up at our expense at major events this sum­mer. Cops were sent on free trips to Glas­ton­bury & Wim­ble­don, alleged­ly to get hints & tips on how to police major events ahead of the Ryder Cup, to be held in New­port in 2010. Super­in­ten­dent Nigel Rus­sell denied any sug­ges­tions cops had been on a jun­ket to Europe’s biggest music fes­ti­val, claim­ing they did not see any bands. “You won’t catch the cops in the mosh­pit,” he said, try­ing des­per­ate­ly not to sound like a cock.

Police Num­bers Fall
Over­paid work-shy plod are retir­ing in their droves & not enough new ones are tak­ing their place, accord­ing to new fig­ures. For the first time in ages more police are leav­ing Welsh forces than are being recruit­ed, because of a rise in retire­ment & res­ig­na­tion rates. The num­ber of cops resign­ing from the four Welsh forces has more than dou­bled since 2002, while retire­ments have also shot up, from 110 in 2002 to 269 last year.

Cop Cars Trashed at Gyp­sy Camp
Two South Wales Police vehi­cles had their win­dows smashed in a dis­tur­bance at an offi­cial traveller’s camp. A Gyp­sy Coun­cil spokesman told the press he didn’t know any­thing about the inci­dent, but added: “I’m sur­prised the police left their cars unat­tend­ed. It doesn’t mat­ter where they go on hous­ing estates any­where in the coun­try, they shouldn’t leave them unat­tend­ed. I don’t know any police force that would leave their cars.”

Welsh Plod Ignored Male Rape Vic­tim
Police have apol­o­gised to a rape vic­tim after their han­dling of his case was crit­i­cised by the Inde­pen­dent Police Com­plaints Com­mis­sion. Geof­frey Cole, from Neath, was sex­u­al­ly assault­ed in Octo­ber 2005. When he report­ed the crime, police offi­cers didn’t take him seri­ous­ly, & failed to make ade­quate efforts to exam­ine the crime scene for evi­dence. Mr Cole’s attack­er has nev­er been caught.

Diary Dates ‑If you are unsure about attend­ing any of the events list­ed below, why not get in touch?

August
1–5 — Big Green Gath­er­ing — Sus­tain­able liv­ing, music & hip­pies. Som­er­set. www.big-green-gathering.com
6 — South Wales Anar­chists forum — a net­work­ing gath­er­ing with reports from all the local groups & cam­paigns. All wel­come. 8pm, Glam­or­gan Staff Club, West­gate Street, Cardiff.
11 — No Bor­ders Info-day & Social — to mobilise for the No Bor­der camp; with speak­ers, films, food & live music. From 1pm at the PAD.
14–21 — Camp for Cli­mate Action – near Heathrow air­port. www.climatecamp.org.uk
27–30 — Smash EDO Action Camp — Direct Action against the war machine. www.smashedo.org.uk
Sep­tem­ber
11 — Dis­arm Desi — actions against Defence Sys­tems & Equip­ment Inter­na­tion­al arms fair. ExCel Cen­tre, Lon­don. www.dsei.org
19–24 — No Bor­ders Camp, near Gatwick. www.noborders.org.uk

Got any news or an event you want us to cov­er? send details to news@gaggedanarchist.tk

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Peo­ples Autonomous Des­ti­na­tion
a phys­i­cal space in Cardiff for groups & indi­vid­u­als who can­not or will not work with­in the con­straints of gov­ern­men­tal or cor­po­rate con­trol.
Veg­an fryup every sun­day from 12noon.
Not-for-prof­it-shop every wednes­day from 5pm. Plus free shop all the time.
meet­ings every wednes­day from 7pm.
& lots more, check our notice board!
118 Clifton Street, Cardiff CF24 1LW • www.thepad.org.uk

Cam­paign Groups
Cardiff Ris­ing Tide
is a grass­roots group com­mit­ted to tak­ing action & build­ing a move­ment against cli­mate change. Meet irreg­u­lar­ly, get in con­tact for details.
cardiff@risingtide.org.uk
www.risingtide.org.uk
No Bor­ders Wales
organ­is­es on migra­tion issues & acts to break down bound­aries that divide us. Meet thurs­days 7pm at PAD.
noborderswales@riseup.net
www.noborders.org.uk
Cardiff Read­ing Anti-Cap­i­tal­ism
is a study/reading group explor­ing rev­o­lu­tion­ary vision & strat­e­gy. Meet 7pm last tues­day of the month at PAD.

Cardiff Anar­chist Net­work (CAN) is a col­lec­tive of peo­ple who want to pur­sue polit­i­cal demon­stra­tions through direct action. There are no lead­ers, just like mind­ed indi­vid­u­als. cardiffanarchists@riseup.net myspace.com/cardiffanarchists Meet 8pm mon­days at PAD.

Gwent Anar­chists are like mind­ed indi­vid­u­als believ­ing in auton­o­my, respect & jus­tice; against all forms of exploita­tion & big­otry. Aim­ing to increase the knowl­edge of, & cre­ate a resis­tance to gov­ern­ments & big busi­ness abus­ing peo­ple & the earth. gwentanarchists@yahoo.co.uk myspace.com/gwentanarchists Meet 8.30pm every oth­er mon­day at the Murenger House, High Street, New­port.

Pem­brokeshire Anar­chists is a group of like mind­ed peo­ple who believe in direct action, jus­tice, free­dom & auton­o­my, are against cap­i­tal­ism, exploita­tion & big­otry. pembrokeshireanarchists@riseup.net myspace.com/pembrokeshireanarchists

Rhond­da Cyon Taf Anar­chists are an autonomous group of free-think­ing indi­vid­u­als who reject cap­i­tal­ism & resist state con­trol through direct action. We work towards the cre­ation of a world based on jus­tice & free­dom. rctanarchists@riseup.net

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