The last six weeks have seen three evictions of camps and squats on the route of the Birmingham Northern Relief Road, involving a range of underhand tactics by police and bailiffs.

In solidarity with indigenous resistance to oil giant Royal Dutch/Shell in Nigeria and as a foretaste of direct action to come, 3 groups barricaded themselves into two senior management offices and the corporate library in Shell-Mex House, London.

Updates and bulletins.

Direct action has taken off on the route of the Avon Ring Road, in response to site clearance work starting in November.

Over the course of the last three months Worthing Anarchist Teapot have been providing free tea and radical propaganda in four successive squats in Worthing.

The 14th of December was a world wide day of protest against the financing of the K2/R4 nuclear reactors in the Ukraine by the EBRD (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

On the 18th January, over 60 people gathered together for the 2nd of the 'Doin' It In The North' actions, this time to remind those responsible for Manchester Airport that it hasn't been forgotten or forgiven.

On Monday 4th January, the first day of the working year, Reclaim the Streets (RTS) activists occupied the head offices of London underground in resistance to privatisation and in solidarity with tube workers.

The year-old camp at crystal palace is now preparing for eviction.

On 4th December 98, Ashton Court's 'Craggy Island' camp enjoyed its latest post-party protest.

If there is to be a summer gathering this year, we will need to start organising it fairly soon.

On Sunday 10th January the third Newbury Reunion Rally saw 250 people take over the newly-opened bypass for the afternoon.

The Silver Beeches camp at Epsom, set up last year to defend woodland against a car park and access road was evicted in January.

In our feature on masking up last issue, we neglected to mention the new laws, coming into force in the next month or so, which will allow the police to remove masks under certain circumstances.

Upcoming dates on the calendar.

Supporting those currently inside for - in this issue - ecological and anti-fascist direct action.

The 121 Centre in Brixton has been squatted for 18 years.

The camp at Arthur's Wood trying to stop the felling of trees which will interfere with the radar system at Manchester Airport, has won a stay of execution.

Plans to celebrate the 350th anniversary of the Diggers' uprising are progresssing apace, with over 150 people attending the gathering in London on the 17th of January to plan actions.

On January 20 faceless clones greeted the many big genetics bods who came for the 'Making Biotechnology Happen' conference in Newcastle upon Tyne.

A campaign is brewing in Birmingham over the loss of some allotments to developers.

As soon as the US and UK started bombing Iraq on 17 Dec anti war campaigners duly responded in actions.

In 1994 the Tories criminalised us - now New Labour plan to brand us terrorist.

The Laboratorio, anarchist social centre in the heart of Madrid, was evicted just before Christmas, following a surprise attack by riot cops.

Directory of EF! and other direct action groups.