Anarchists smashed windows of banks and other symbols of capitalism.

According to the Associated Press, Eric Grandjean, a police spokesman, said Black Bloc protesters also threw fire bombs at police from the march.

Police used stun grenades, tear gas and water canons to try and disperse crowds. 14 arrests where made.

The protests take space days before the anniversary of the Seattle WTO protests. See the Last Hours feature N30: ten years on.

The fifth event of its kind, London Capture the Flag has grown in popularity since its inception in late 2008/early 2009.

‘The city is dead and its glass gravestones invite you to come play’

Meet outside Victoria overground station at 7pm Friday 20th November

Dress warm and ready for rough and tumble.

Tell everyone.

This issue of the newsletter has short articles on the situation in Calais, resistance to deportation flights, migrant workers on strike, and lots of protests against the UKBA, detention centres, corporations and racist groups plus a call out for COP15.

Issue one can be downloaded from here http://noborderswales.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/movement_one.pdf

Meanwhile police brutality against migrants continues in Calais, France. Visit http://calaismigrantsolidarity.wordpress.com/ for more information.

Saturday 21st – Sunday 22nd November

12-5pm both days
Entry is free

‘Stalls and workshops will be upstairs to browse and shop, whether for you or for Christmas presents for your nearest and dearest. ‘

Stall info

Vicky Stevenson creates zines, illustrations, photography and sewn pieces inspired by objects and mechanical items that she finds interesting and attractive.

Southampton Solent Illustrators love nothing better than drawing and doodling to their hearts content. their stall will consist of fresh zines, postcards and prints, and all profits will go towards their degree show.

Steve Larder will have a stall on at least one of the days and has work featured in Last Hours newest publication Excessive Force

Hannah Southcoast writes for Suspect Device, Last Hours, The Angels Share and has her own zines: “South Coast Vegan Cooking” zine, “Lost Property” travel zine and “A Zine for the Ladies”. In addition, she often makes really tasty vegan cakes and sells them along with her distro at shows. What a trooper!

Brighton Zine Collective formed in the autumn of 2008 with the intention of organizing an event in Brighton. Some of our members write their own zines (Mujinga, the New Wave of Cut & Paste, Fanzine Ynfytyn), some make crafts, some do a zine distro (Hoojemaflap), some just really like reading zines. Our distro is predominantly zines and contains a range of punk zines, political pamphlets and perzines, maybe a couple of arty things. We stock zines created by members of the Brighton Zine Fest collective as well as other UK based zines and a few European ones.

Last Hours. That’s us! We will have our two new publications on sale as well as all our other radical literature. Come and say hi!

plus loads more!

Here’s what you can expect on the opening weekend.

Friday

The Friday night will be an acoustic affair with Cosmo, Tracey Curtis and Robb Johnson to perform.

Saturday

Saturday the 21st will be an open day with workshops and a cafe. In the evening those attending will be entertained by some stand-up comedy and live music.

Workshops will include self defense, bike maintenance and much more.

Safer Space

The Black Cat has a safer space policy including a no-drugs policy.

The Black Cat can be found at Kelso Place, Upper Bristol Rd, Bath, Avon BA1, UK (map)

The G20 are a group of twenty finance ministers and central bank governors from 19 of the worlds most wealthy economies and the European Union. These economies cover 80% of world trade and the countries themselves contain two thirds of the worlds population.

Various groups and individuals have called for mass protest in response to the gathering.

“We are opposing the G20 because they are an unrepresentative, undemocratic organization that serves the few at the expense of the many. The G20 may have come to a quiet corner of Fife, but that does not mean they will escape public opposition,” said Katherine Kemp, a fourth year international relations student at St. Andrews.

The assembly point is “Church Square,” located near the intersections of Church St. and South St., next to Holy Trinity Church, St Andrews (Map)

G20 meetings this year have been hit by large scale protest. First in London, UK where thousands of people flooded the streets, smashing banks and battling police. The day tragically ended with the death of a passer by after being shoved to the ground by police. Then in September anarchists and anti-authoritarians took to the streets in Pittsburgh, USA where corporate shop windows where smashed.(read a report back from CrimethInc here)

For more information on why we should appose the G20 check ‘A guide to the G20 Protests‘ published by Last Hours before the March 2009 protests.

For more information visit http://naetaeg20.wordpress.com/

The archives, that now contain literally thousands of documents are a great way of disseminating ideas and information for free to anyone with internet access.

The best news is that both have just made available BitTorrents of their complete catalogues. This means that the complete archived texts can be downloaded and shared around the world easily and for free.

To find out about the BitTorrents visit http://www.theanarchistlibrary.org/announcing-library-torrent or http://zinelibrary.info/announcing-anarchist-library-torrent

For more information on either the Zine library or the Anarchist library visit http://zinelibrary.info or www.theanarchistlibrary.org

Small press comics fair

Of particular interest to many involved with Last Hours is the return of Comica’s comiket, which sees the event return to the ICA on Sunday November 8th. The day will see launches from Solipistic Pop, a new comics anthology of UK creators, and Savage Messiah zine.

Looking at the line up of people coming with stalls this year there’ll be a barrage of amazing comics and stories. And in the evening will see a series of talks, including a discussion of politics in comics at 6.30pm, which is sure to be interesting. More details

Other events

The three week will be filled with a series of talks and presentations. Full details can be found on the comica website – www.comicafestival.com – but the highlights as far I’m concerned appear to be:

• Friday 6 November – Black Powers, a free talk on black representation in comics at Swiss Cottage Library (more details)
• Saturday 7 November – Eddie Campbell, artist of From Hell – talking about his mammoth 640 page collection of Alec, recently released by Topshelf (more details)
• Monday 9 November – Kevin O’Neill – giving a free talk at Islington town library about The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (more details)
• Until 28th November – Ctrl.Alt.Shift Unmasks corruption exhibition at Lazarides, Soho. (more details)

Needless to say there’s a number of other events beyond these, and if you have any kind of interest in comics it’s well worth checking out www.comicafestival.com

If like me, you’ve never made it to one of ATP’s festivals, but only their London events, the footage will most probably make you feel a tad jealous at what you’ve been missing out on: sets by and entire festivals curated by Sonic Youth, Sleater-Kinney, Mogwai, and The Mars Volta, to name just a few.

The tour takes in Manchester on Friday 23rd October, Glasgow on the 24th, London on Monday 26th and Leeds on October 27th.
http://www.atpfestival.com/Events/ATPFilmAndLesSavyFav/News/0910191013.php

Police attempted to chainsaw through the door, whilst others climbed onto the roof. They also blocked all roads leading to rampART.

The space was occupied for over 5 years and used for a host of non commercial events including fundraisers, meetings, a convergence space, art space and much much more. The building had previously been abandoned.

The space had been run by a collective set up with no hierarchical structure and an emphasis on consensus and DIY culture.

Attempts to evict the building had been made in the past (including during the G20 protests in April 2009 when armed police raided the building) but have always failed.

This news comes when almost 25% of high street stores lie empty and unused in some areas of the UK.