Dissident Island Radio

Dissident Island Radio episode 220 brings you inappropriate noises from:     – An organiser in the IWW couriers network discussing their new UK wide campaign to highlight UberEats and Deliveroo's shady, crappy employment practices (00:01:24 – 00:20:40)     – ACAB Andy with legal updates fresh from the frontline (00:22:36 – 00:35:15)     – A Chat with a resident of the squatted Basque village of Er...

Dissident Island Radio episode 219 presents an education special to get us all ready for back to school season! On the curriculum:   – Professor G with an insider view of the education system, why it's f*cked and why he hangs on in there (00:01:41 – 00:17:48)   – Ex school governor Kevin White discussing struggles against academisation in Newham (00:23:34 – 00:41:35)   – Hot topic debate between P...

Dissident Island Radio episode 218 coming at you with dissenting discourse provided by:   – Basque anarchists discussing the demise of ETA and where that leaves the Basque liberation struggle (00:01:10 – 00:22:50)   – ACAB Andy on the Robinson appeal and words about fixed penalty notices as well as court updates from around the country (00:25:10 – 00:40:55)   – A report on the Middle East Forum, p...

Dissident "Love" Island episode 217 was a regular feast of sun sea and sedition with shrimps on the barbie including: - A chat with people involved in organising the street level antifascist response to the #FreeTommmy demos (00:01:14 – 00:09:25) - News from Legal Andy of the launch of new court support group ACAB as well as the restart of London ABC (00:12:30 – 00:21:15) - An introduction to anar...

Eleven years of Dissident Island Radio! Episode 216 features birthday bling from: – The newly launched London Renters Union on the city-wide struggle against shit housing (00:01:54 – 00:13:12) – A chat with Legal Andy on the challenges of coordinating legal support in politically fractious times (00:18:03 – 00:33:33) – Squatters from SLAP! launch issue #9 packed with adventures in urban potholing...

Dissident Island Radio episode 215 featuring summer sizzlers such as:   – A member of NELS – North East London Hunt Saboteurs in to talk with us about the joys of sabbing and the battle for animal rights in our countryside (00:01:59 – 00:16:59)   – After the state's embrace of plans for Heathrow air port's long awaited 3rd runway we speak with an activist from Vote No Heathrow gearing up to fight...

Dissident Island Radio episode 214 features nefarious knowledge from:   – Antiuniversity Now talking about Antiuniversity 2018 and why it could be their last (00:01:45 – 00:14:50)   – Two activists focussing on Colombia with an update on the nascent peace process and the power vacuum left in the wake of the FARC (00:18:30 – 00:33:45)   – Contributors to Base publication discussing the history of t...

Dissident Island Radio episode 213 features disobedient dialogue from:   – Members of Brighton and North London Solfed telling us about their work with renters, organising to beat dodgy landlords and letting agents (00:01:20 – 00:15:10)   – Organisers of the Decolonise Fest discussing the upcoming DIY punk festival celebrating punx of colour (00:17:55 – 00:41:35)   – Martin Lux of Red & Black TV w...

A special 420 edition of Dissident Island Radio with a smoky selection of seditious sounds from the likes of:   – A member of the Dublin Bay North – Repeal the 8th talking to us about their campaign to liberalise abortion in Ireland (00:04:30 – 00:18:10)   – London rap artist AWATE live in the studio chatting politics and creativity (00:18:10 – 00:52:52)   – The LDMG 's Andy with all you need to k...

Dissident Island Radio episode 211 brings you insurgent interruptions from:   – Dr Debra Benita Shaw telling us about her new book ' Posthuman Urbanism ' (00:00:50 – 00:21:10)   – The first of our zine reviews, this one featuring the Perfect Day Zine (00:24:30 – 00:29:05)   – LDMG 's Andy with updates on ongoing court cases and the low down on burglary (00:29:35 – 00:37:45)   – Matty from The Blac...

Dissident Island Radio episode 210 brings revolutionary rumblings including:   – A UCU – University and College Union member and striking staff member discussing the ongoing industrial action across UK universities (00:01:36 – 00:16:48)   – The LDMG with legal info on pickets, spitting and railway invasions (00:20:24 – 00:32:23)   – Clips from an infotalk on the 6-year old Hambacher Forest Occupat...

Dissident Island Radio episode 209 keeping fires burning in the snow with these radical ruminations: – A #Yarls_Wood detainee on the hunger strike #HungerForFreedom inside the Bedfordshire women's detention centre [00:02:03 – 00:18:41] – LDMG on the legalities of throwing snowballs at cops [00:19:45 – 00:23:46] – Sophia House Squatted Solidarity Centre supporting street sleepers in the snow [00:25...

For your listening pleasure Dissident Island Radio episode 208 offers up the following delights:   – Docs not cops on fighting against borders in the NHS (00:01:24 – 00:14:00)   – A member of the Save Walthamstow's Town Centre campaign discussing yet another London landgrab and the growing grassroots campaign against it (00:17:45 – 00:31:10)   – LDMG's Andy on fighters returning from Rojava facing...

Dissident Island Radio episode 207 brings you rants and musings from the likes of:   – Up the Elephant / Occupy Elephant talking about the past month's happenings in Southwark, the LCC occupation and possible glimmers of hope on the horizon (00:02:48 – 00:13:09)   – The LDMG's Andy filling us in on the same shit/different day nature of the IOPC, plus updates on the Sheffield tree campaign and DSEI...

Dissident Island Radio episode 206, bringing you our first haul of audio plunder for 2018 including: – Discussion about No Platforming with the National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts (00:01:45 – 00:15:10) – Legal guidance on disclosure and parole as well as an update on ongoing DSEI trials from the LDMG 's Andy (00:19:35 – 00:36:50) – An update from Belgium following last year's moves to make squ...

Dissident Island Radio episode 205, and final episode of 2017, is here to thrill and delight with festive and strictly vegan treats including: – Clifton Ross on the failure of Chavismo (00:03:00 – 00:23:21) – Technophobic radio play 'Ring Ring' (00:26:40 – 00:35:03) – LDMG's Andy on wins we can celebrate from 2017 (00:35:34 – 00:41:03) – Hurricane Irma and the landgrab in Barbuda (00:44:15 – 00:55...

Dissident Island Radio episode 2014 brings to you a seasonal selection of sounds including: – A member of the London Anarchist Bookfair collective discussing their recent decision to step away from bookfair organising and where this leaves the 'movement' (00:00:30 – 00:23:24) – The LDMG's Andy chatting royal weddings, high court injunctions, the Lauri Love hearing and other legal shit (00:29:00 –...

Dissident Island Radio episode 203 hit the digital airwaves with noises from: – Lauri Love and friends tells us of the last ditch efforts to Stop Lauri's extradition to Trump-Land (00:00:32-00:21:47) – The LDMG 's Andy discusses new powers to extract names and nationalities from defendants as well as updates on legal happenings from across the realm (00:26:12-00:45:37) – A piece from b(a)d news ne...

Dissident Island Radio's 202nd episode contains the following components:   – Words about freedom of speech and the practice of 'No Platforming' in light of recent government proclamations directed at UK universities (00:02:02 – 00:12:54)   – Ahkok Wong talking to us about organising the Hong Kong Black Book Fair , the political climate in Hong Kong and how people in the UK can join in (00:16:10 –...

Dissident Island Radio episode 201 features: – Charlie , from New Internationalist , on how it became one of the biggest media co-ops in the world (00:00:50 – 00:11:07) – A discussion about the relevance & significance of the October Revolution nearly 100 years on featuring our resident history wizz Dr. G and a comrade of the Trotskyite persuasion (00:15:28 – 00:41:58) – A report back* from Barcel...

The 200th edition of Dissident Island Radio is ready for your ears! Featuring: – London Campaign Against Arms Trade giving a round up of the Stop The Arms Fair actions (00:01:20 – 00:11:40) – our friends from The Final Straw Radio chatting to Yellowhammer Alternative , an Alabama-based autonomous mutual aid group, about their relief work around Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Jose (00:18:00 – 00:29:30...

Dissident Island Radio episode 199 presents an assortment of audio treats: – Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) on the dirty, corrupt practices of UK military trading and how they want to stop the London DSEI arms fair (part one: 00:01:25-00:13:32 & part two: 00:35:35-00:47:50) – Legal Defence & Monitoring's (LDMG) Andy on treason, terrorist offences and some advice on how (not) to show solidarity...

Dissident Island Radio episode 198 offers to the deities of dissent:   – Plan C in discussing their upcoming Fast Forward festival (00:02:19 – 00:17:30)   – An update from the Common House, a collectively rented and run 'experiment in building a commons', highlighting their emergency fundraiser to keep their doors open (00:19:09 – 00:31:06)   – Words from a member of London based campaign group Th...

Dissident Island Radio episode 197 featured radical ruminations from:   – The Alliance for Choice talking about the ongoing fight for abortion rights on the island of Ireland (00:01:00 – 00:11:20)   – Frack Free Lancashire discussing recent goings on at the Preston New Road Rolling Roadside Protest and what lays ahead for the campaign (00:15:15 – 00:31:53)   – The LDMG's Andy calling in from the r...

Dissident Island Radio turned 10 years old on our 196th broadcast and we celebrated in style with a bumper edition featuring:   – Haringey residents live in the studio talking about grassroots organising against Haringey council's proposed redevelopment scheme, the Haringey Development Vehicle (00:02:04 – 00:12:01)   – Smash IPP with words about their fortnight of action against IPP sentences (00:...