Episode 104 is gonna be jam packed and super brain-teasing. We'll be hearing from two of the Free Association lot, Keir and Brian, discussing brainy things like 'capital as a social relation'. We'll also hear a discussion about the social implications of Greek's recent default and reflections from the Occupy Finsbury Square folks. DJ Muskut and MC Wildeye will keep it real with some dubsteppy, gri…

Tech Tools for Activism is a gateway to a set of tools to help campaign and organise more securely online. These include email, email lists, websites / blogs, status.net, instant messaging and VPN (virtual private network). We also provide online help and real life workshops on how to use these tools. The site is aimed primarily at activists and campaigners, but will be useful to anybody interest…

Friday 16 March 2012 marked the 100th episode of Dissident Island Radio marks our centenary, and with that in mind we decided to make it a bit special. Alongside the usual mix of music, banter, and special guests on the mic we be heard an extended piece on the consolidation of neoliberal capitalism in Europe post 'crisis'. The discussion focuses primarily on the situation in Ireland, Spain, and…

Episode 98 promised to be an action packed adventure for all the family on Dissident Island. And it was! This time around the crew talked to Vyvian and Paul from the SQUASH (Squatters' Action for Secure Housing) campaign who tell us where the campaign is in fighting the legal aid bill, currently being deliberated in the House of Lords. John and Said from Antifa KA stopped by during the tour of the…

Catalyst Radio welcomes the Circled A radio show onto its digital airwaves! The Circled A broadcasts weekly on FM community radio in London - and it will now also feature regularly on the Catalyst schedule. During the show Yodet, host and presenter, interviews guests and airs audio recordings on a diverse range of topics, from philosophy and history to music, current events and more - all while co…

Listen to episode 2 of the excellent Errrtek Underground music production show airing tonight on Catalyst Radio at 9-10:30pm: a radio show taking you on a journey through London's darker streets of the music scene. This month the show features "dr collosus", the history of Breakcore, hue jah fink's first review and professor grinder's "science of sound". Hosted by recursive and b52 and their digit…

Dissident Island is back in 2012! With a fresh and incredibly topical show featuring audio from the recent prisoner solidary demo in Holloway, a discussion on the challenges and importance of organising and facilitating social centre spaces, updates on the Bloomsbury Social Centre, Occupy Justice, the Bank of Ideas, the Earl Street Social Centre...and words from Ireland on the Rossport Solidarity …

In this latest kick ass episode of radio KEBELE we start it off with local and global updates. We interview amazing bands that make radical music - Spanner, the Autonomads, Cop on Fire and DJ Black Rainbow selects the tunes for us a la Desert Island Disks. We also speak to a riot grrrl from Israel, have vox pop from the N30 strike and an interview about the second wave of genetically modified…

Check out the latest Dissident Island show, featuring Pun Ngai on the human rights atrocities happening in Chinese factories, words from two of the folks involved in the growing Traveler Solidarity Network, on the future aims and actions of the group as well as some reflections on the political position they take on the pressing issues surrounding traveler communities such as Dale Farm, in the UK …

There's a whole bunch of random and wonderful gems featured on this Friday's Catalyst schedule...we start off with Rebel music from the heart of Ireland and segway into a random mega mix in the early hours, featuring lots of snippets from different radical talks and audio books interspersed with music, jingles and bits of radio gold recorded by Redbricks Radio in Manchester...[read more]

after a dark week for social justice, dissident island presents a less than happy show! we have squash in the house talking about the dreaded clause 26...grow heathrow update on their impending eviction and resistance. we present the first of a three part series covering the criminalisation of squatting in the nethalands. and finally the LAF debates on consensus desistion making recorded at this y…

Another London Anarchist Bookfair has come and gone. And what a day it was! Almost 100 stalls with various wares on display, all day films, cabaret, two kids' spaces and 60 hours of meetings in the chock-a-block time table of talks, lectures and discussions, the London Anarchist Bookfair is an impressive and well-attended yearly event, and one of the biggest anarchist bookfairs in the world. [read…

Tune in to Dissident Island, streaming live on Catalyst Radio tonight from 9pm GMT. It's the 91st episode and a super special show focusing on different kinds of cooperative ventures - housing coops, social centre coops, acting coops...the show also promises to bring the latest updates from the Occupy London protest, other announcements and Nokken on decks with minimal techno...[read more]

Yes. It's Friday again. One of those Friday's where you can tune in to Dissident Island Radio and hear all sorts of tasty stuff. This will be D*I's episode 89 and, as usual, we've got our many fingers in many pies including: Photojournalist Guy Smallman discussing Afghanistan, war, and imperialism 10 years in to the 'war on terror' and maybe a bit about Libya too (in the Resonance FM studios that …

Happy 4th Birthday, Dissident Island! Tonight marks 87 episodes and four years of often bass-heavy, always radical, radio shows from London's favorite DIY radio crew. Raise a class, celebrate and tune-in, 9pm GMT onwards, and listen to the show again throughout the week on Catalyst Radio. [download the show: mp3 | ogg]

We are proud to announce a new DJ is joining us on Redbricks Radio. DJ On Spider Park has 2 new mixes for us. One blending the ethnic sounds of the global underground with some urban bass, and one just plain wrong for those that like to Shake it.

The name On Spider Park comes from a local park which is the subject of a lot of attention recently. You can check out a report about it here -

Or you…

There's lots of topical and new content being streamed 24/7 on Catalyst Radio - and an addition worth announcing is Building Bridges, the community and labour report issued from the US which examines the world of work and workers lives, jobs, homes, with human rights abuses, environmental concerns in mind and within the content of US imperalism. Each show features interviews and narratives, with a…

Dissident Island's 86th episode is ready for download! The show focuses on issues around the UK housing crisis - with hundreds of thousands of properties across the UK lying vacant, the neo-conservative parliament is set on outlawing squatting - which would effectively illegalise protest camps, travellers sites, and further weaken existing tenants' rights. We are witnessing a continued PR campaign…

Dissident Island is back on Catalyst Radio! Live from 9pm tonight, episode 85 will feature a whole bunch of audio recorded at yesterday's General Strike which happened across the UK - as well as discussion and interviews on the strike situations in Spain, Greece...we'll be looking to answer the question "what is the alternative to the cuts?", discuss workplace and societal organising, with the u…

This Thursday (30th June), Catalyst Radio will be streaming Live from Bratfuds legendary 1in12 Club with a line up of 6 bands, starting from 8pm.

Headlining are club favourites and local talent Alt Track, a two piece punk/drum and bass mashup who are recently back in the land of the golden whippet from touring across Europe.

As if that wasn't good enough, support is provided by, The Paper Smiles…

Thank you Acoustic Insurgency - what a great night! Acoustic Insurgency and Dissident Island Radio threw together an excellent gig with all profits raised going towards operating costs of Catalyst Radio. The evening featured live music from Pneu!, the Jack Ratts, Press Gang and Ben is a dark horse. [read more...]

Catalyst Radio has been streaming non-stop (with the exception of a handful of tech glitches!) for the past 10 days. We've got content coming in from some great regular UK-produced radical radio shows, including Radio Kebele, From Bristol with Love, Radio Interference, DIY or Die, Dissident Island, Redbricks Radio, archived material from the hillarious and excellent Radio Vague, as well as news fr…

Hey hey hey! Dissident Island, London's DIY radio crew, will sail its maiden voyage on Catalyst Radio with our 84th episode coming live and direct to you tonight from 9pm till late, bringing you a wide variety of radio gold from around the world, including words from Ben Morea, on the Greek General Strike, Barncamp 2011, on NAMA in Ireland... [read more]

Hey there! So everyone involved in the catalyst project, friends and listeners alike have all expressed excitement at the launch of Catalyst Radio, the network and the 24-hour streaming internet radio station. It's been going really well so far, with a couple glitches here and there. This is a DIY, non-hierarchically organised media and technical project with a lot of political principals embodied…

Catalyst Radio is launching tonight! Broadcasting from the beautiful Wye Valley, at the 2011 Barncamp being organised by the Hacktionlab network, the evening's festivities will be broadcast from about 8pm onwards. The live stream will be kicked off by an introduction to and discussion about Catalyst, and will lead straight into live entertainment, music and DJs, (and maybe a bit of raveoke too). T…

Catalyst Radio is a new 24/7 radio station that is due to begin Broadcasting on Saturday 11th June 2011. The launch party is being held at the annual BarnCamp event in Monmouthshire, and we will be kicking off with a live panel debate from the great and the not so great of the UK Tech Activist scene, followed by some live DJing from the people of the Barn.

The station is a collaboration between R…