Yearbook 2001
Adventures From The Direct Action Frontline
Published by SQUALL and SchNEWS
June 2001
280 pages, B5
ISBN 09529748-3-5
"The Zapatistas march into Mexico City, thousands disrupt the World Bank meeting in Prague, Churchill gets an anarchist make-over: from Bognor to Bogota, Dudley to Delhi, and Kilburn to Melbourne, resistance has become as global as the institutions of capitalism. It's all here. Featuring SchNEWS 251-300, the best of SQUALL, plus articles from people at the frontline of struggles worldwide, and creating sustainable solutions to the corporate carve-up of the planet. All wrapped up with loadsa photos, cartoons, satirical graphics, subverts, and a comprehensive contacts database."
To read the SchNEWS issues 251-300 reproduced in this book click here
Squall Content
All articles were previously published in print or online by SQUALL
Silent But Deadly
A huge US-based corporation has the full backing of the UK government for its plans to turn Plymouth into a nuclear waste dump - Feature - 26th April 2001
Big Brother Gets Bigger
Intelligence Services and Police seek greater telephone and internet surveillance powers - Underground Update - 8th Dec 2000
Sow Far Sow Good
Permaculture in practice at Brickhurst Farm, Kent - Feature - Summer 1998
Anti-WB/IMF Protests - Washington DC 15-04-2000 16-04-2000 17-04-2000
Havin’ it in the thick of the anti-capitalist action on the streets of Washington DC during protests against the World Bank/IMF Summit - Frontline Communique - April 2000
Poisoning The Guerilla Garden
Mis-reporting of the London Mayday Reclaim The Streets at Parliament Square - The State It’s In editorial - June 2000
Marijuana Sprouts In Parliament Square
Green on the green - Underground Update - 24th July 2000
Smoke Signals
Cannabis march and festival - The State It’s In editorial - April 2000
Blowing The Lid On The Bilderbergers
Peeking behind the curtain on the Old World Order - Frontline Communique - June 2000
Saturated Roadstoppers Undeflated By Show-Stopper
First ever Irish Reclaim The Streets action is held in Dublin - Underground Update - 15th June 2000
Metaphysical Graffiti
Banksy, the prodigious art activist from Bristol has been causing a right ol' stir with his brazen approach to conscious graffiti - Feature - July 2000
Severn Revels Festival
Festival gets the OTT policing treatment - Frontline Communique - August 2000
Toker Trouble
Police, sniffer dogs and toupes at Smokey Bears Picnic in Portmouth, the longest-running annual protest against the prohibition of cannabis - Underground Update - 13th August 2000
Death By Truncheon
Commemoration and demonstration at Home Office for Roger Sylvester, killed in police custody - Underground Update - 17th August 2000
Prague S26 - In The City Of 100 Fires
Direct from frontline Prague, Si Mitchell sent back this breathless report - Frontline Communique - 27th Sept 2000
Ain't No Stoppin’ Them Now
Interview with a Ya Basta activist - Feature - Spring 2001
Pain & Punishment For Prague Protesters
Reports of police brutality against those arrested during S26 demonstration in Prague against World Bank/IMF - Underground Update - 2nd Oct 2000
Marred Opinions
BBC’s Chief Political Editor Andrew Marr is far from impartial - Feature - August 2000
Know FC Know Comment
Spoof paper 'Financial Crimes' circulates in Britain as protesters descend on Prague for World Bank/IMF Summit - Underground Update - 28th Sept 2000
Sanctioning Iraq
Squall interviews the former assistant secretary general of the United Nations who resigned in protest over the effects of western sanctions on Iraq - Feature - 2000
Petrol Pariahs
The real petrol crisis - The State It’s In editorial - Nov 2000
Ramallah, Palestinian West Bank
Live and direct from the Middle East hotspot - Frontline Communique - 13th Nov 2000
Corporate Cops
A remarkable out-of-court police settlement with widespread implications for the relationship between big business and the police - Feature - July 2000
The Corporation Rules UK
UK Government helps a transnational corporation do the dirty on Derbyshire company - Feature - Early 2001
Gap Gets Shagged In Sheffield
Use of sweatshop labour by clothes brand 'Gap' highlighted in protest - Underground Update - 4th Feb 2001
CIA Sick Chile Concoction
Declassified documents show CIA involvement in Chile, and the 1973 coup by General Pinochet - Underground Update - 28th Nov 2000
BBC Selectively Cuts Loach's Select Cuts
BBC edits out the juicy stuff - Underground Update - 1st Jan 2001
Activist Gets Visit From Special Branch
The story of anti-nuclear and internet-rights campaigner Stella Purvis in Cumbria being spooked and targeted by Special Branch - Frontline Communique - Feb 2001
K-Ching! K-Ching! That's The Sound Of The Police!
The privatisation of public security and policing begins as private security firms sign contracts - Underground Update - Feb 2001
Digging In Chiapas
Easton Cowboys football team from Bristol have an away fixture in the jungles of Chiapas against the Zapatistas - Frontline Communique - March 2001
Legalise It!
Cannabis legalisation demo at Downing St - Underground Update - 31st March 2001
Vodka Ad Not In Socialist Spirit
Photographer reclaims famous Che Guevara image from the capitalist marketeers - Underground Update - 28th Sept 2000
Stark Staring Bonkers
Devon organic farmer Tim Malyon sends this dispatch from the heart of an exasperated British countryside in the middle of the Mad Cow fiasco - Frontline Communique - April 2001