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Then they came for the slow-walkers
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
ANDREW MURRAY recommends a volume of essays that nail the visionless, racist and neoliberal character of policy under Starmer’s Labour Party
JONATHAN TAYLOR appreciates how, for a black British musician, to walk onstage can be a rebellious act
Since 2023, Strike Map has evolved from digital mapping at a national level to organising ‘mega pickets’ — we believe that mass solidarity with localised disputes prepares the ground for future national action, writes HENRY FOWLER
Like dictators of the past, Trump is seeking an enforcement agency answering only to him, asserts CJ ATKINS
From tens of thousands left abandoned to a militarised ‘looting’ crackdown, Hurricane Katrina laid bare racial inequities and government neglect, writes NATALIA MARQUES
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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