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Featured local business - Clubtek

Forest

SE23

Hill

I was already a regular visitor to Clubtek’s DJ shop when it was in Penge, but now they're even handier in Stanstead Road, just a few doors down from Shannon’s Garden Centre - another old favourite. It’s by no means just for DJs and bands...

‘Violence in Brixton follows poll tax protest’ (March 1990)

Mar

2015

Twenty five years ago today, on 31 March 1990, one of the largest demonstrations of the 20th century set off from Kennington Park to protest against the Conservative government's planned new poll tax (officially known as the 'community charge'). The demonstration ended up in Trafalgar Square and was followed by rioting throughout the West End. ...

NHS Pay Protest at Lewisham Hospital, St Thomas’ & St George’s – 5 June 2014

May

2014

On 5 June health workers across the country will be taking part in a day of action protesting the Government’s decision to refuse a 1% pay rise to the majority of NHS staff. The pay rise was recommended by the Independent NHS Pay Review body but rejected by Conservative Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt. Many health ...

South East London Women Oppose the Nuclear Threat (1984)

May

2014

1984 was a busy year for the movement against nuclear weapons. American cruise missiles had been deployed in Britain, and there were protest camps at the US bases at Greenham Common and Molesworth. Cold War tensions were rising, and many people worried that a nuclear war was a real possibility.Thirty years ago, Thursday 24 May ...

South London Strikes and Protests Round Up

May

2014

I haven't had time to cover these in detail, so here's a quick round up of recent strikes and protests in the South London area.Firefighters have been continuing their strikes against changes to their pensions:Striking firefighters at East Greenwich fire station, May 2 2014 (photo from @akaDanielLawrie on twitter)Pickets at Plumstead fire station, May 2 2014Workers at ...

Undercover: police spies in South London

Mar

2014

'Undercover: the True Story of Britain's Secret Police' by Rob Evans and Paul Lewis is primarily about the work of the Special Demonstration Squad, a London-based police unit set up to infiltrate radical and not so radical movements. Of course the police Special Branch and other agencies have been using informers and undercover police officers ...

Political Graffiti – ‘Save our NHS’ and ‘Homes for the People’

Feb

2014

Some recent political graffiti spotted round and about.'Homes for the people not profiteers'Next to the site entrance for the controversial proposed Convoys Wharf development on the Deptford riverfront (opposite the Dog & Bell on Prince Street, SE8):'Save Lewisham Hospital from SERCO - Scrap PFI, put People Before Profit'on hoardings around building site where once the Maypole ...

SE London Strikes and Protests Round-up

Feb

2014

A quick round up of strikes and protests...Staff at Goldsmiths and other universities are staging another one day strike next Thursday in the ongoing national pay campaign. The last, two hour, strike on January 28th, was reported in Goldsmiths paper The Leopard:'As the nation-wide strike began, protesters took the opportunity to address the large mass ...

Peckham Rent Strike 1930s

Jan

2014

In the 1930s, Peckham was the scene of a successful rent strike. The focus was the Nigel Buildings tenements, which I think were situated roughly where the Troy Town flats are now off Nigel Road SE15. I found this account online, source seems to be an article (undated) in The Morning Star and I believe ...

Shell stations picketed in Greenpeace protests

Nov

2013

Several Shell petrol stations in South London were among 70 fuelling stations in the UK picketed yesterday as part of an international day of solidarity with 'the 30 people who were detained on a Greenpeace International ship by armed Russian security forces and imprisoned. Next week will mark two months since the 30 were detained ...

Bonfire Against Austerity

Nov

2013

The People's Assembly Against Austerity has called a national day of protest and civil disobedience tomorrow (Tuesday 5 November). They say: 'Campaigners will highlight the human cost of the government’s cuts programme which has seen many local services decimated, jobs lost, wages frozen and the benefits which supported some of the neediest in our community ...