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We face an avalanche of repressive, anti-democratic legislation designed to subjugate protest. Is an all-out uprising becoming the only solution, asks DAWN EVANS

SO yet another bid to block a repressive anti-democratic law has failed in Parliament, and police are to get even more powers to restrict protests and demonstrations. 

This time it is aimed at marches that are “likely to cause more than minor delays” and is aimed primarily at the so-called slow-walking protests that have been carried out mainly by the Just Stop Oil environmental movement over recent months.

Last week on June 12 Tory MP Kit Malthouse stated in Parliament that the reason it is necessary to bring in this special secondary legislation called a statutory instrument, is because slow-walking on roads is a different category of protest. 

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