Activists from Extinction Rebellion demonstrate on Oxford Street in central London. Picture date: Saturday April 9, 2022.
EXTINCTION REBELLION has vowed to bring “millions to the streets” later this year in defiance of draconian Tory plans to roll out a new set of curbs on protests.
The climate activist group said it was foolish for ministers to think that the new crackdown measures proposed in the Public Order Bill would stop people protesting “to demand their government acts to ensure a safe future for people in the UK and around the world.”
The Bill seeks to introduce new offences for “locking on” to and “interfering” with infrastructure like major roads, printing presses and oil terminals.
It is only trade union power at work that will materially improve the lot of working people as a class but without sector-wide collective bargaining and a right to take sympathetic strike action, we are hamstrung in the fight to tilt back the balance of power, argues ADRIAN WEIR
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