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Democracy, human rights
:
UK,
International
Development
Disabilty
Green/environmental:
UK,
International,
Transport,
Animal rights,
Anti-corporate
Lesbian and gay
Political Parties:
Labour
Party sites,
Green Parties,
Socialist Alliance,
Scottish
Socialist Party,
Other Parties
Peace:
General resources,
War on Terror
Protest/Direct Action
Publications, resources
and research:
UK media,
International media, Media Activism,
Publishers,
Resources
Society - Anti-Racism
Society - Health, housing, welfare
Trade unions:
Labour movement resources,
British unions,
International
Women
Democracy, human rights
Democracy, human rights: UK
Democracy, human rights: International
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BOND
BOND is a network of over 260 UK based voluntary organisations working
in international development and development education
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CODA
International Training
Working for the transfer of skills to democratic organisations working
for progressive change in Southern Africa and Central America
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European
Network for Indigenous Australian Rights
a London-based European campaigning/support group for Australian Aborigines
and Torres Strait Islanders
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Idealist
The global clearing house for non-profit and volunteering resources
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Intermediate Technology
An international development agency which aims to enable poor people
in the South to develop skills and technologies which give them more
control over their lives
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One World
Huge (and excellent) integrated parent site for many of the major British
development NGOs and international campaign groups
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Overseas
Development Institute
An independent centre for development research
- Oxfam
The home pages of one of the largest overseas development agencies in
t
he UK
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Survival
International
Supporting tribal peoples through public campaigns,
education and funding
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Techknowledgy
supplies basic computers to developing countries for educational use
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World Development Movement
Campaigns to tackle the root causes of poverty. With our partners
around the world , we win positive change for the world's poorest people.
UK environmental
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Big Barn
find local food producers, co-ops and a lot more by entering your UK
postcode
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Black
Environmental Network
working across diverse sectors for ethnic environmental participation
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British
Trust for Conservation Volunteers
BTCV offers thousands of volunteering opportunites every year throughout the UK
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Campaign to Ban Genetically Engineered Foods
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Centre
for Alternative Technology
Exploring practical solutions to the world's environmental problems
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Common
Ground
Linking arts and the environment, Common Ground focuses on the positive
investment people can make in their own localities
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Communities
Against Toxics
Dedicated to helping communities and individuals protect the environment
from industrial abuse.
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Community
Composting Network
A fast growing network comprising over 125 members across the UK involved
in community composting
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The Countryside Agency
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Defend the Dunes
campaign to prevent residential development on sand dunes between Lytham
St Annes and Blackpool
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The
Earth Centre
An environmental education centre aiming to transform 350 acres of reclaimed
landscape into a world centre for a sustainable future by the year 2000
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Ecomall
An exhaustive list of Green resources
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Education
pages on climate change for children and parents (DEFRA)
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Energy 21
organises conferences, seminars, exhibitions and advance public knowledge
on renewable energy
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The Environment Agency
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Envision
a new project starting in London to set up environmental action teams in schools and 6th form colleges
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Federation
of City Farms and Community Gardens
There are over 1,200 city farming and community gardening projects in
the UK that attract over 3 million visitors and regular users every
year
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Five Year Freeze
an alliance of 120 organisations concerned with the speed of genetic engineering being introduced in food and farming
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Friends
of the Earth (England, Wales and N. Ireland)
The environmental campaign group
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Friends of the Earth (Scotland)
The environmental campaign group
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Genetic
Engineering Network
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GeneWatch
promotes a debate on genetic engineering and addresses the ethics and
risks of it
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Green Books
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Green Net
The British end of the vast Association for Progressive Communications,
specifically designed for environment, peace, human rights and development groups.
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Greenpeace UK
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Green
Youth Action
a UK network of young people interested in green issues
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Groundwork
Implementing environmental programmes within communities
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HACAN Clearskies
campaigned against Heathrow Terminal 5 and continues to campaign against night flights
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Leeds Earth First!
Leeds pages for the international network of radical eco-activists
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People and Planet
UK student campaigning organisation to end world poverty, defend human
rights and protect the environment
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Sustain
the alliance for better food and farming
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UK Food Group
Promotes access to adequate, safe and culturally appropriate food, the
income to buy it or the means to produce at all times; with information on biodiversity
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Vegetarian
Society UK
information sheets on animal treatment, youth-oriented pages and local
groups
International environmental
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The Amazing Environmental Organization Directory
A vast international environmental directory
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CREST
(formerly Solstice)
Information and connections on energy efficiency, renewable energy and
sustainable technology
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Earth Summit Watch
Following the Earth Summit of 1992, this is an effort to hold our leaders
accountable for their commitments to address the environmental, social
and economic challenges facing our global society
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EcoNet
Building coalitions and partnerships over the net with for environmental
preservation and sustainability
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Envirolink
An environmental resource from a grassroots online community
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Greenpeace International
The campaigning organisation on global environmental problems
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Green Skies
a worldwide information network on the environmental effects of aviation
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Living Earth
An international organisation to help people take responsibility for
their impact on the environment.
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Rainforest Action Network
Working to protect the Earth's rainforests and support the rights of
their inhabitants through education, grassroots organizing, and non-violent
direct action
- Rising Tide
Britain
Holland
Protests against the US Kyoto position and a tour coming to a town near you!
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Scientists
for Global Responsibility
An independent organisation of scientists, formed in response to the
irresponsible use of science and technology
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Stop Esso
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the ongoing international boycott of ExxonMobil over climate change
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Sustainable
Times
a webzine that cover international and sustainable development issues
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Vegetarian Pages
The centre for vegetarianism on the net
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World Resources Institute
provides information, ideas, and solutions to global environmental problems
Roads and transport
Anti-corporate
Lesbian and Gay
Parties and organisations
Labour Party and connected
sites
Green parties
Socialist Alliance
Scottish Socialist Party
Other Parties
Peace
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Action
for People in Conflict
A charity to help victims of conflict caused by racial, ethnic, social,
religious or cultural intolerance
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CND
(Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament)
The youth and student section
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ConflictNet
A US network dedicated to promoting the constructive resolution of conflict;
an extensive resource of information and contacts
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Peace
Pledge Union
an independent organisation that believes war and violent conflict are
neither necessary nor inevitable. Their annual White Poppy campaign
challenges popular assumptions about war, and spotlights creative techniques
of conflict prevention and conflict resolution
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Troops
Out Movement
Campaign for the withdrawl of the British military from Northern Ireland
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United
Nations Association
Works to further the original principles of the UN and to foster global
co-operation and understanding though education
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World
Court Project UK
An effort
to find nuclear weapons illegal through the International Court of Justice
Peace - War on Terror
Protest/Direct Action
Online Activism
Direct Action Groups
Publications, resources
and research
UK media:
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The
Big Issue
The Big Issue campaigns on behalf of homeless people, highlights the
major social issues of the day, and allows homeless people to voice
their views and opinions
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The Citizen
The web site for the quarterly journal of the Campaign for Socialism
- from the office of Alex Falconer MEP
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The
Guardian Weekly
a compact digest of the best of international news, politics, features
and comment from the Washington Post, le Monde, the Guardian and the
Observer newspapers
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Labour
Left Briefing
An independent voice and forum for socialist ideas in the Labour Party
and trade unions, with an excellent list of links
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The
Morning Star
Britain's socialist daily newspaper
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Regeneration
The Labour Party's youth magazine
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SchNEWS
The newsletter of Justice?, Brighton's direct action network
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Scottish
Left Review
a bi-monthly website magazine that will seek to provide a focal point
of thought and discussion for the Scottish Left
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Squall
Wide-ranging, hard-hitting
direct action magazine
- Urban 75
Well-designed underground/direct
action net magazine
International media
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AGLOB
a new leftist online magazine (on Russia, globalisation and civil society)
by the Institute of Globalization Studies (IPROG) headed by Boris Kagarlitsky
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Arena
An Australian
journal of left political, social and cultural commentary
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Common
Dreams
columnists and a collection of reprinted progressive writing (US-focused)
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Counterpunch
a bi-weekly newsletter with a radical attitude that battles against
the war machine, big business and the rapers of nature
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Democracy
Now!
a US listener-sponsored public radio (over 120 stations) and TV show,
pioneering the largest community media collaboration in the country
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The
Drudge Report
Heretical US journalist Matt Drudge dishes the dirt
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Environment
News Service
an independently owned and operated daily international wire service
on the environment
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Index
on Censorship
The magazine for free speech
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International
Viewpoint
Politics around the world from a socialist perspective
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Le
Monde Diplomatique (english edition)
a critical monthly newspaper of international events and culture
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Mother
Jones
an independent US nonprofit with investigative reporting
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rabble
news for the rest of us (Canada-focused)
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Social
Criticism Review
Articles on man, nature and the dysfunctional scientific-technical complex
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Stay
Free!
Magazine focused on issues surrounding commercialism and American culture
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The
Nation
unconventional wisdom since 1865
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The
Village Voice
a weekly progressive newspaper published in New York City (NYC urban
politics, US politics, critical arts coverage)
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Web
Active
A weekly e-zine designed to keep activists up to date
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Z Magazine
The leading progressive left magazine from the US
Media Activism
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AMARC
the world association of community radio broadcasters
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Community
Media Association
news, information, services and a gateway to community media organisations
in the UK and worldwide
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La
Lutta New Media Collective
education, visual and performing arts, and multimedia outreach activity
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Media
Workers Against War
working in all types of media and opposed to the so called "war
on terrorism" and the mainstream media's support for aggressive
action against innocent civilians under the pretence of "anti-terrorism"
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Paper
Tiger Television
uses a public access TV series, media literacy/video production workshops,
community screenings and grassroots advocacy PTTV works to challenge
and expose the corporate control of mainstream media
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Undercurrents
Provides support and training to video activists and produces a video
magazine of documentaries made by video activists
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Whispered
Media
a collective that promotes the use of video, and other media tools,
in progressive grassroots movements
Publishers
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ABCtales.com
Website and magazine that lets all writers get published for free
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AK Press
Anarchist press
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Alternative
Press Index
the leading guide to the alternative
press in the US and around the world
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Attic
Press
specialises in Irish/Women's Studies, history and practical Reference
books by, for and about women, with a strong international and Irish
profile
- Cleis
Press
literature, human rights journalism, erotica and lesbian, gay, bisexual,
and gender studies
- Common
Courage Press
books for an informed democracy
- Fernwod
Publishing
aboriginal studies, history, labour studies, womenıs studies, gender
studies, critical theory and research, political economy, cultural studies,
and social work
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Left
Turn Books
providing sources of information, analysis and debate that can strengthen
links between activists
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Monthly
Review Press
Dedicated to a Marxist analyis of politics and economics. Also includes
excerpts from their monthly magazine: The Monthly Review.
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New
Clarion Press
an independent UK publisher of books on history, politics and social
policy written from a radical and reforming perspective
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South
End Press
A collective dedicated to publishing books that nurture and inspire
social change
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World
Socialist Books
Socialist Press
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Zed
Books
books with a critical vision
Resources and research
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Anarchy
Archives
Articles on famous anarchists and anarchist history - from Japan
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Babelfish
Instant translations from French, German, Italian or Spanish
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Catalyst
a UK think tank that looks at practical policies for the redistribution
of wealth, power and opportunity
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Commonwealth.net
Virtual discussion group for Commonwealth issues (good on South Asian,
Australian news)
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Earth
Action
A global network for the environment, peace and social justice
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Encyclopaedia
of Direct Action
A Guide to Direct Action tactics and techniques
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The
First Church of Chumbawamba
An extensive site from the anarchist band
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Labour
Research Department
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Left
and Progressive Internet Directory
Huge US-based international directory
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Left
Direct
On-line directory of Green groups
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The
Left On Line University
Provides three semesters per year of university-level fifteen-week courses
in political, social, economic, historical and activist topics
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News
From Nowhere Radical Bookshop (Liverpool)
Site contains contact details, new books of the week, and will contain
a directory for radical politics and community resources in Liverpool
and Merseyside
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Noam
Chomsky Archive
The largest site on America's favourite leftie
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The
Marx and Engels Internet Archive
Providing acces to the works of Marx and Engels online, plus discussion,
biogs, pictures and some material on other Marxists such as Lenin, Trotsky
and Rosa Luxemburg
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The
Marxism-Leninism Project
A collection of extracts from classic Marxist texts
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Politicos
London's political bookstore and coffee house. Stocks books, publications,
magazines and merchandise
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Portland
Anarchist Web
An extensive US site
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Red
Star Research
New Labour's links to big business and the rich (party donors, party
sponsor, and in future, a complete list of all Task Force members!)
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Russian
Anarchism and Anarcho-Syndicalism
A resource of contemporary anarchist publications from Russia
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The Seed
A key UK Anarchist site, containing pages for The Raven, Freedom Press,
Class War and the Anarchist Yearbook
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Spunk
Press
Anarchist and alternative literature published online - from the Netherlands
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Signs of the Times
An independent, self-financed
collective providing space for the free ciculation and exchange of ideas on the left.
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Working
Class Movement Library
A collection of English language books, periodicals, pamphlets, archives and artefacts,
concerned with the activities, expression and enquiries
of the labour movement, its allies and its enemies. Online searchable
catalogue.
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Word Power Bookshop
A Scottish independent radical bookshop
with an enormous variety of material.
Society - anti-racism
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Asylum
Aid
free legal advice and representation to refugees and asylum-seekers
seeking safety in the UK from persecution
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Black
Environmental Network
working across diverse sectors for ethnic environmental participation
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Campaign
Against Racism and Fascism
Britain's only independent anti-racist magazine, documenting resistance
against racism - from black and refugee organisations, monitoring groups,
anti-deportation campaigns, and more
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Commission
for Racial Equality
a publicly funded, independent organisation that exists to tackle racial
discrimination
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Injustice
a film about the struggles for justice by the families of people that
have died in police custody
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Kick It Out
football's anti-racism campaign since 1993
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National
Coalition of Anti-Deportation Campaigns
bringing together families and individuals who are fighting deportation
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Operation
Black Vote
a non-party political campaign to over voter registration, demonstrating
collective community potential and confronting politicians with the
reality of what it means to be Black in Britain
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Race
in Britain (The Guardian)
a collection of recent articles, as well as links to the various reports/inquiries
on racial rioting and violence in the summer of 2001
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The
RAM Project
promoting best practice in media representation of refugee and asylum
issues
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Searchlight
the international anti-fascist magazine
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UNITED
for Intercultural Action
more than 550 organisations from 49 European countries working together
- united in the biggest anti-racism network
Society - health, housing,
welfare
Trade unions
Labour movement resources
British unions
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TUC
(Trade Union Congress)
- GFTU
(General Federation of Trade Unions)
Federation of specialist
unions
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AEEU
Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union
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AUT
Association of University Teachers
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BECTU
Brodcasting Entertainment Cinematography and Theatre Union
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CWU
Communication Workers Union
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CYWU
Community and Youth Workers' Union. NEW site under construction.
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FDA
Association of First Division Civil Servants
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GMB
General and Muncipal and Boilermakers Union
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GPMU
Graphical Paper and Media Union
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Media
Unions
Including the BECTU and the NUJ
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MSF
Manufacturing, Science and Finance Union
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Musicians'
Union
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NASUWT
National Association of Schoolmasters and Union of Women Teachers
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NUJ
The National Union of Journalists
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NUS
National Union of Students
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PCS
Public Services, Tax and Commerce Union
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STE
Society of Telecom Executives
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TGWU
Transport and General Workers Union
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Unison
Britain's biggest union
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USDAW
Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers
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URTU
United Road Transport Union
International unions
Women
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Feminist
search engine
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Global
Fund for Women
An international organisation focusing on female human rights
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Quine
Highlighs the activities, interests and concerns of Scottish women
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Tampon
Alert
exposing the dangers of Toxic Shock Syndrome
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TUC
pages on equal rights for women
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Womankind
Worldwide
A development agency to aid women in developing countries
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Women
and Politics
A US online academic journal
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Women's
Communication Centre
A non-profit agency set up to advance equality and understanding between
the sexes and give female perspectives in public debate
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Women's
Environmental Network
educating, empowering and informing women and men who care about the
environment
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The
Women's Library
a cultural centre, housing the most extensive collection of women's
history in the UK (visit them in London,
E1)
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Women's
Net
Computer services, internet and information resources for women - from
the USA
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The
Women's Stand
Online shop of the political conference retailer (IWD badges; women's
political postcards, mugs, greeting cards, t-shirts, enamelled badges,
books, music and jewellery)
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