Tag: protests

The lockdown has ended but the crackdown on protests goes on and on. We need to share skills and solidarity to resist police repression.

Arjun Mahadevan shares his perspective on political education coming from a place of solidarity.

Colin Revolting looks at events in Deptford and Eltham after the 2011 shooting of Mark Duggan

The toppling of the statue to slave trader Edward Colston on Sunday 7 June has echoed around the world.

From the toppling of a statue to the slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol, to the protest demanding justice for Sheku Bayoh in Kirkcaldy, people took to the streets to say: 'The UK is not innocent.'

Indonesia's increasingly authoritarian populist president Jokowi begins his second term confronted by a new generation radicalised by militarism, agrarian dispossession, environmental destruction and corruption.

The 30th anniversary of the Trafalgar Square riot is a good time to reflect on Simon Hannah’s engaging account of the movement that scuppered Thatcher’s poll tax, writes Andrew Stone

Colin Revolting remembers the day 30 years ago when one of the biggest marches ever turned into a mass riot which sunk the Tory flagship Poll Tax policy and took Prime Minister Thatcher down with it. 

The anti-poll tax movement was arguably the most successful social movement in Great Britain since the 1970s. In advance of the 30th anniversary of the poll tax riot (31 March 1990), Andrew Stone explores how political organisations and grassroots initiative interacted.

We look back at the year 2019 with protest pictures by Steve Eason.