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Opinion: Filth: Disease, Drugs or Looting – Brutal Policing is Always Framed As Protecting ‘the Public’ From Infection

Eleanor Penny

Black Lives Matter protests are being framed as a public health threat. In the long and racist history of policing, justifying state brutality with a claim to be protecting ‘the public’ from contagion - by disease, drugs, or an epidemic of looting - is nothing new, writes Eleanor Penny.

Report: Racist Policing Accelerated During the Pandemic. Mounting Protests Could See It Get Even Worse

Sophie K Rosa

With racial profiling by the police accelerating under lockdown, police monitoring groups and anti-racism activists fear that in the face of intensifying protests, it may get even worse. Sophie K Rosa reports.

Analysis: Beyond Bernie: Amidst National Unrest, Can Progressive Candidates Salvage the Democratic Party?

Freddie Stuart and Aaron White

With Bernie Sanders out of the presidential race and the country exploding into civil unrest, can progressive candidates respond to the revolutionary fervour of the American people? Freddie Stuart and Aaron White take a look in the first instalment of our series on the US 2020 elections.

The Bastani Factor: The End of Policing With Alex Vitale

The killing of George Floyd has catalysed a wave of protest across the United States, with police violence central to the message of the powerful #BlackLivesMatter movement. Aaron Bastani interviews author of ‘The End of Policing’, Alex Vitale, to ask just how bad law enforcement is in the United States, and what can be done […]

How the Gilets Jaunes Launched a Movement Against Police Violence

Oliver Haynes

Flashballs and teargas grenades have left hundreds of French protesters with severe injuries, but resistance to state-sanctioned violence is building by the day.

Surround Yarl’s Wood: We Must Keep On Demanding an End to Immigration Detention

Charlotte England

We went to the 12th surround Yarl's Wood demonstration outside the immigration removal centre in Bedfordshire. But despite a recent abuse scandal, an increase in detention deaths, and a charter flight the day before, the turnout was small and the mood different to past protests.

5 Possible Effects of the Met’s ‘Pay-to-Protest’ Policies

Hannah Sketchley

The Metropolitan Police recently told campaigners demonstrations would only be policed if they were expected to be crime-free, with organisers advised to hire private security. What are the implications for radical movements?

7 Reflections on the National Demo for #FreeEducation

Craig McVegas

Wednesday's national demonstration for free education could have gone either way. As it stands, people are excited that it may now be the spark for a new student movement that will fight for - and crucially, could win - free education.

4 Nails in the Coffin of the NUS

Student Mole

While campuses across the country are gearing up for the national free education demonstration on 19 November, the National Union of Students leadership has dramatically pulled its support in spite of the wishes of its national executive committee and those organising the march. While many were angered by the U-turn, few experienced activists could claim to be surprised.

3 Years On… 7 Fragments on the Latest Winter Rebellions

Craig McVegas

Next to the storming of Millbank, 9th December 2010 arguably saw the most notable ‘moment of excess’ of the Coalition-era student movement. Over the course of about ten hours, thousands of young students from universities, colleges and schools found themselves on the wrong end of police batons, riot shields and horse charges. Suddenly, aggressively, masses […]

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Opinion: Filth: Disease, Drugs or Looting – Brutal Policing is Always Framed As Protecting ‘the Public’ From Infection

Eleanor Penny

Report: Racist Policing Accelerated During the Pandemic. Mounting Protests Could See It Get Even Worse

Sophie K Rosa

Analysis: Beyond Bernie: Amidst National Unrest, Can Progressive Candidates Salvage the Democratic Party?

Freddie Stuart and Aaron White

The Bastani Factor: The End of Policing With Alex Vitale

How the Gilets Jaunes Launched a Movement Against Police Violence

Oliver Haynes

Surround Yarl’s Wood: We Must Keep On Demanding an End to Immigration Detention

Charlotte England

5 Possible Effects of the Met’s ‘Pay-to-Protest’ Policies

Hannah Sketchley

7 Reflections on the National Demo for #FreeEducation

Craig McVegas

4 Nails in the Coffin of the NUS

Student Mole

3 Years On… 7 Fragments on the Latest Winter Rebellions

Craig McVegas

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Opinion: Filth: Disease, Drugs or Looting – Brutal Policing is Always Framed As Protecting ‘the Public’ From Infection

Eleanor Penny

Report: Racist Policing Accelerated During the Pandemic. Mounting Protests Could See It Get Even Worse

Sophie K Rosa

Analysis: Beyond Bernie: Amidst National Unrest, Can Progressive Candidates Salvage the Democratic Party?

Freddie Stuart and Aaron White

The Bastani Factor: The End of Policing With Alex Vitale

How the Gilets Jaunes Launched a Movement Against Police Violence

Oliver Haynes

Surround Yarl’s Wood: We Must Keep On Demanding an End to Immigration Detention

Charlotte England

5 Possible Effects of the Met’s ‘Pay-to-Protest’ Policies

Hannah Sketchley

7 Reflections on the National Demo for #FreeEducation

Craig McVegas

4 Nails in the Coffin of the NUS

Student Mole

3 Years On… 7 Fragments on the Latest Winter Rebellions

Craig McVegas

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