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5 Reasons I’m Not Joining the ‘Extinction Rebellion’

Chris Saltmarsh

New environmental group Extinction Rebellion are gaining significant media attention for staging mass acts of non-violent 'civil disobedience’ in opposition to climate change. Climate justice activist Chris Saltmarsh explains why he won't be joining the movement.

Novara Docs: Return to the Commons

On a 14-square mile patch of western France known as Notre-Dame-des-Landes, a world is being constructed, a way of living, formed through common endeavour and a knowledge of and sensitivity to the landscape and its ecosystems. It’s a messy process that was started 10 years ago when climate activists started to squat the area to […]

Long Read: The Stansted 15 Follow a Long Tradition of Direct Action in the UK – But They Also Go Beyond It

Ewa Jasiewicz

On Monday 15 people will face trial on terror-related charges for blockading a deportation charter flight last year. Ewa Jasiewicz reflects on the history of radical direct action-orientated solidarity in the UK and how this action was the first of its kind.

Novara FM: A Century of Suffrage?

On #NovaraFM, James Butler is joined by Zoe Williams, Ash Sarkar and Eleanor Penny to discuss the centenary of the Representation of the People Act 1918, which offered limited suffrage to women, and discuss the changing face of feminism in the past century.

Solidarity Can Melt Ice: Students and Migrants Occupy a French Château

Gabriel Bristow

As temperatures plummeted across France, students in Nantes occupied an art school to provide shelter for migrant rough-sleepers. The occupation moved to a university-owned château and has so far avoided eviction, despite threats.

7 Reasons We’re Taking Direct Action Against Fracking in Lancashire

Chris Saltmarsh and Leah Lapautre

After years of popular opposition being ignored by both the government and fracking company Cuadrilla, protectors in Lancashire are resorting to direct action to stop the proposed first fracking site in the UK. Here are seven reasons why two protectors are taking part in the blockades.

Home Sweet Home: Solving Ireland’s Housing Crisis

Sean Finnan

Ireland is facing the most severe housing crisis in its modern history. Last year fewer than 13,000 new homes were built, while demand is running at 25,000 a year. The Home Sweet Home campaign offers up tangible solutions to the crisis, using direct action to cut through empty political rhetoric.

Why do Protesters Block Roads?

George West

Each time a road is blocked by activists, we hear the same questions: 'Why make this a problem for everyday people? Aren't you undermining your cause?' But there's a reason protesters choose to take the streets.

Long Read: Up Against the Housing Gatekeepers

Izzy Koksal

Sunday Long Read: Possession orders are on the rise and landlords are lobbying to make evictions even swifter. Meanwhile, housing offices are implementing 'gatekeeping' practices to against homeless applicants.

3 Reasons the UAL Occupation Matters to FE, HE and the Free Education Movement

Tom Scrivener

Like other recent direct actions such as at LSE, the University of the Arts London occupation is rooted in the free education movement. But the task of articulating longer term goals alongside combating immediate course cuts presents fresh challenges for students in the face of an ongoing restructuring of education.

#ReclaimIWD: 7 Reflections from Inside the University of London’s Feminist Occupation

Helena Dunnett-Orridge

8 March is International Women’s Day, and to mark the occasion free education activists from across the country have spent the weekend in an occupation of Senate House at the University of London.

5 Reasons the Strike in China is Terrifying! (to Transnational Capitalism)

Ashok Kumar

As the unprecedented strikes at footwear factories in China near the two week mark, the 48,000 workers involved seem only to be escalating the activity. The demands for significant wage increases and structural change have resonated with local organizations which have called for global solidarity actions. As it all kicks off at this 'backbone shop', Ashok Kumar considers why it's not just Nike and Adidas who should be afraid.

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