Trip 39: Protest
What did an A-to-B march ever achieve? The gang consider the necessity and futility of protest, with music from Lowkey and Dylan.
Tag: protests
Former Amnesty Official Arrested for Satirical Placard
Rivkah Brown
A farce.
Donald Tusk Gives Polish Leftists the Ick. They Might Have to Get Over It
Ana Oppenheim
'Smiley-faced liberalism.'
This Protester Committed No Crime But Is Going to Prison Anyway
Denise Laura Baker & Josie Argyle
Injunctions allow companies to 'buy their own protest laws'.
Jîna ‘Mahsa’ Amini Was Kurdish And That Matters
Meral Çiçek
Say her Kurdish name.
Four Antisemites Won’t Stop Me Supporting Palestine
Rivkah Brown
If Jewish solidarity withers in the face of a few bigots, it is no solidarity at all.
Police Brutality in Bristol Has Shocked the Country. Why Won’t the City’s Labour Politicians Condemn It?
Anna Lart Greene
With local elections weeks away, politicians who pit themselves against their constituents are working on borrowed time.
Police Violence at Third Bristol Protest
On Friday Bristol saw its third protest against the policing bill in 6 days. We speak to Adam Cantwell-Corn, co-founder of The Bristol Cable, who reported from the scene.
Policing Bill Sparks Riots in Bristol
The Tories’ draconian policing bill sparks riots in Bristol. Michael Walker and Ash Sarkar discuss the fallout from the protests, and the utility of riots.
If We Can’t Change the Law, We’ll Break It
Rivkah Brown
Resisting the Tory protest crackdown may require ever greater acts of civil disobedience.
A Doctor on Living Through a Month of Deadly Protests in Myanmar
Charlotte England
'Get on Signal, use a VPN, trust no one.'
Poland’s Pro-Choice Protests Are Radicalising a Generation
Ana Oppenheim
How Protesters in Thailand Are Leading the Struggle Against Authoritarianism
Andrew MacGregor Marshall
The Police Are Using Coronavirus to Crack Down on Protest
Rivkah Brown
‘Fuck the Algorithm’: How A-Level Students Have Shown the Future of Protest
James Meadway
Trump’s Attack on ‘Anarchists’ Is Just the Latest Red Scare
Ruth Kinna, Matthew S Adams and Thomas Swann
Black Britannia: Today’s Anti-Racist Movement Must Remember Britain’s Black Radical History
Bryan Knight
Colston Has Fallen
Edward Colston Has Fallen. Now, can the #BlackLivesMatter movement force Britain to face up to its colonial past and the racism that exists to this day?