Find out what's going on in Manchester...

The Loombreaker A monthly news sheet, spreading news the mainstream media won't print. Pick it up FREE from... Bridge 5 Mill, Beswick St, Ancoats Mistys Cafe, Longsight District Centre, Stockport Road Cafe Pop, Oldham Street, Piccadilly Unicorn Grocery, 89 Albany Road, Chorlton 8th Day Cafe, Oxford Road & Old Birley Street Withington Wholefoods, Wilmslow Road Contact: loombreaker@nematode.freeserve.co.uk Website: http://www.loombreaker.org.uk

Riotous Assembly Come along if you're interested in direct action, campaigns, taking on the bosses, grassroots resistance, defending communities, earth, animals, and fun! It's a chance to meet and chat. Bring ideas & events each first Tuesday of the month, 7.30pm, Yard Theatre (opp. Junction pub) 41, Old Birley Street, Hulme

Networking Newsletter Paper & web publication listing activist and campaign events in & around Manchester. Website: http://dialspace.dial.pipex.com/town/terrace/gdn22/NNP

Find out what's going on in the UK...

IndyMedia UK UK node of the global IndyMedia network. Indymedia UK is a network of individuals, independent and alternative media activists and organisations, offering grassroots, non-corporate, non-commercial coverage of important social and political issues. Website: http://uk.indymedia.org/

SchNews Excellent, long running weekly news sheet printed and published in Brighton by Justice? You can get it online in .pdf format to print & distribute. Website: http://www.schnews.org.uk

Earth First! Action Update A monthly round-up of ecological and other direct action from around Britain. Subscribe by sending a fiver for 10 issues (£8 Europe, £12 rest of the world) to EF!AU, PO Box 487, Norwich, NR2 3AL, England. Concerned about security? You may wish to consider a false name & c/o address. Sadly, the EF!AU website has not been updated since last summer so you can't check the latest issues online :-( Website: http://www.eco-action.org/efau/

Find out what's going on internationally...

A-Infos A multi-lingual news service by, for, and about anarchists. In the struggle for a free society, A-Infos distribute news and articles in several languages, covering a wide range of areas. These include workplace, environmental and anti-imperialist struggles as well as the fight against racism, sexism and homophobia. It is an ace way to get news of struggles happening all over the world - couldn't live without it! Website: http://ainfos.ca/

Global Grassroots Resistance Directory Contact information for movements around the world resisting capitalism and oppressive power structures. Basically a database of activist groups around the world, it just keeps on growing. Excellent networking tool. Is your group listed? Website: http://www.glores.org

IndyMedia The global node of the IndyMedia network. Indymedia is a collective of independent media organizations and hundreds of journalists offering grassroots, non-corporate coverage. Indymedia is a democratic media outlet for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of truth. Check it out! Website: http://www.indymedia.org/

Find out about anarchism...

Anarchist FAQ The aim of the Anarchist FAQ is to present what anarchism really stands for. This web-site is the creation of many anarchists across the globe and is a classic example of the power of freedom, equality and mutual aid. Website: http://flag.blackened.net/intanark/faq/

Mid-Atlantic Infoshop Online anarchist community. Anarchy and anarchism on the web? Infoshop.org has lots of information of interest to anarchists, anti-authoritarians, and other activists. Put some anarchy into your life today and learn why anarchists are trying to create a more anarchist society. This is a cooperative effort. If you or your project wants to participate or contribute materials, get in touch! Website: http://www.infoshop.org/

Anarchy Archives An online research centre on the history and theory of anarchism Website: http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/archivehome.html

Search UK activist databases...

SchNews Database This database is what's included as the the contacts list in the new SchNews book, tidied up and made available via some free software called WODA, written by a nice chap called Ziga, in Slovenia. Website: http://www.schnews.org.uk/database/index.htm

Urban 75 Database This is a comprehensive database of contacts, campaigners and activists. Website: http://www.urban75.com/Links/contacts.html

Squat a building...

Advisory Service for Squatters (ASS) ASS is an unpaid collective of workers who have been running a daily advice service for squatters and homeless people since 1975. It grew out of the former Family Squatters Advisory Service, which was founded in the late 1960s. ASS publishes Squatters Handbook which is in its tenth edition, with the eleventh currently in preparation, and has sold in excess of 130,000 copies since 1976. Website: http://www.squat.freeserve.co.uk/

Squat!Net This is an international internet magazine with main focus on squatted houses, car sites and other free spaces. Different people, with different backgrounds (e.g. squatters, punks, hackers, etc.) try to work together and collect news and importent stuff on the squatter scene. Website: http://squat.net/

Set up a housing co-operative...

Radical Routes A network of little fishes - "We believe that everyone should be in control of their own housing, not at the whim of their landlord. Co-ops also provide secure homes, so that your housing is not dependent on your financial security" Website: http://www.radicalroutes.org.uk/

UK Housing Co-operatives Home Page This website has a directory of UK housing co-operatives. It also has resources - propaganda and ideas that might help you. Website: http://eiloart.com/coops

Confederation of Co-operative Housing The Confederation of Co-operative Housing was constituted in the United Kingdom in 1993. CCH membership is open to all housing co-operatives, tenant-controlled housing organisations and regional federations of housing co-ops. In creating a national confederation of housing co-operatives, the CCH recognises that there are many differing views across the country and the CCH attempts to reach a broad consensus from these views. Website: http://www.cch-uk.org/

Set up a workers co-operative...

Radical Routes A network of little fishes - "We believe that if ordinary people regained control over their lives, the level of environmental devastation and injustices in the world (presently caused by big companies and governments) would decrease. We hope this book provides you with an insight into co-ops, and how co-operative economic activity can start to change our society for the better, here and now." Website: http://www.radicalroutes.org.uk/

Resist corporate agriculture & biopiracy...

Primal Seeds Primal Seeds exists as a network to actively engage in protecting biodiversity and creating local food security It is a response to industrial biopiracy, control of the global seed supply and of our food This evolving tool is designed to empower individuals to participate in the creation of tomorrow. Website: http://www.primalseeds.org/

Genetic Engineering Network An information sharing network for action. Website: http://www.dmac.co.uk/gen.html

One World Guide to Genetic Engineering Oneworld.net's guides aim to challenge and inform, questioning assumptions and suggesting alternatives on the subjects that really matter. Website: http://www.oneworld.org/guides/biotech/index.html

Friends of the Earth - Real Food The way we produce food has a negative effect on the environment, people’s health and rural communities. Food which can be grown here is flown in from thousands of miles away. Pesticides have devastated wildlife and intensive farming has brought us mad cows. Big agri-business is trying to force us to eat genetically modified foods. The public has had enough. Website: http://www.foe.co.uk/campaigns/food_and_biotechnology/

Organic Consumers Association Campaigning for Food Safety, Organic Agriculture, and Sustainability. Website: http://www.purefood.org/

Soil Association The Soil Association exists 'to research, develop and promote sustainable relationships between the soil, plants, animals and the biosphere, in order to produce healthy food and other products while protecting and enhancing the environment'. Website: http://www.soilassociation.org.uk