Defending us against "Defence Systems and Equipment International is an influential event in the international defence calendar which in 200l confirmed its position as one of the leading tri-service defence shows in the world....
"DSEi provides a unique platform to see the latest systems and equipment from the world's defence industry. We look forward to welcoming you". So writes DEi chairman Bob Monkton on the official web site for the arms fair to be held from September 9-12 - but somehow he is unlikely to be talking about the protestors.
Disarm DSEi is a campaign to shutdown this the largest arms fair in Europe this year, which is taking place at the Excel Centre in London's Docklands. Much of the hard work of publicity and coordination has been done by anarchists and Campaign Against the Arms Trade members, with stalls at conferences and festivals throughout the spring and summer:
These efforts are now bearing fruit. Sixty groups are now affiliated to Disarm DSEi, the main umbrella group, including Stop the War, CND, CAAT and Globalise Resistance and activity is taking place all over the country to build up to the climax of the campaign - with protests and discussion meetings from 6-12 September. For further information see www.dsei.org. Resistance will be there, if you want to join us, email us at [email protected].
year's Glastonbury Festival one last time before retirement, right? the competition totally irrelevant. from a shopping list. Crikey. Published by Socialist Resistance, PO Box I109 London N4 2UU. Printed by East End Offset, London E3 Jocie Head on the politics of the bands at this
table'. Primal Scream bring an end to the opening day.
Ex-members of The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Stone Roses and My Bloody Valentine are all on board. They're milking the cash-cow
"fraid not. Instead it's a rock show that leaves ninety-percent of
In 2001 Primal Scream recorded "Bomb the Pentagon'. Freak timing. Post-9/11 they took a critical battering and scrapped the lyrics
However, frontman Bobby Gillespie didn't turn into a diplomat, tonight he instructs us to "assassinate Tony Blair", as if reciting
The song about Madeleine Albright, Swastika eyes, is given a venomous outing. The inspiration: Albright's statement that infanticide of 500,000/ UN sanctions on Iraq were "worth it". If only more toptwenty pop hits came this politically motivated. Snake-hipped Gillespie leads us in the dissenter's disco.
Nitin Sawhney plays the One World stage on Saturday evening.
Like Mercury music prizewinner Talvin Singh, Sawhney has seen some snide media coverage, most of it bearing the word's 'coffee
The meaning is that people strategically leave a CD on their coffee table to appear fashionable to guests. The implication being that nobody buys the CD to actually listen to.
This is clearly absurd, judging by the massive audience and their euphoric reaction to the songs on display such as "immigrant'. Beautiful and danceable music.
The dance tent has a stellar line-up on Sunday, with live drum 'n' bass promised from EZ Rollers, I-Kamanchi and Marky/ XRS. None of them provide instruments.
At the risk of sounding outdated, I thought instruments were an integral part of live music. They all turn out jumped-up DJ sets.
When there's jump-up music of this calibre, who cares? Especially enjoy the Marky/ XRS performance; they have rightly received much credit for bringing the fun element back to drum 'n' bass. Is there anything the Brazilians aren't best at?
Special mention must go to the backing visuals: someone get that 'Che in a Palestinian scarf" on a T-Shirt!