Subjects Archives: Protest

Encampments spring up at hundreds of campuses as students object to their own university’s investment in the U.S. and Israeli arms industry.

Donald Trump is using decades-old laws to expel critics and opponents.

Among the concessions agreed to by the university are a ban on face masks at protests and the hiring of 36 “special officers” with the power to remove or arrest students.

The term ‘zero distance’ became famous after it was used by Palestinian resistance fighters in Gaza to illustrate the strength and courage of Palestinian resistance in the face of Israeli tanks.

The arrest and possible deportation of Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil, a Green Card holder with a student visa, for his organizing role at Gaza solidarity protests last year has sent shockwaves throughout American society.

Columbia University issued suspensions, expulsions, and temporary degree revocations to students connected to the April 2024 occupation of Hamilton Hall, as ICE agents reportedly arrested a second Palestinian Columbia student on Friday.

The success of ‘I’m Still Here’ at the Oscars is a tribute to the Brazilian people’s resistance to military dictatorship – and offers a warning over US encouragement of Brazil’s far-right today.

You have to understand this notion of freedom—that to be free, you have to make someone else less free—to make sense of the idea that Donald Trump is a champion of “free speech.”

This past week, the School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) at Cornell University once again released the annual report of its Labor Action Tracker (LAT), which records all strikes and lockouts in the United States.

Real estate event organized by company promoting land sales in illegal Israeli settlements in West Bank turns violent.

On Feb. 7, a hundred residents of Lincoln Heights, Ohio, drove out a dozen armed neo-Nazis waving swastika flags.

JOHN NEWSHAM draws attention to the uncompromising path of U.S. singer/songwriter CONOR OBERST.

One million people mobilized in the City of Buenos Aires–according to the organizers–as a result of the fuse lit by the LGBT community.

The Bob Dylan biopic is finely acted and captures the aspects of the musician impressively, but not the full political power of the songs, finds Jonathan Maunders.

Amazon warehouse workers and delivery drivers at seven facilities in the metro areas of San Francisco, Chicago, Atlanta, Southern California, and New York City are out on strike Thursday, in what the union says is the largest strike against Amazon in U.S. history.

Columbia University staff are being suspended and terminated for participating in last Spring’s Gaza Solidarity Encampment, even if they were off the clock at the time. Similar cases are being seen across the country.

Recently launched DOE investigations into alleged antisemitism concern incidents from as far back as 2013.

ROAPE’s Peter Dwyer interviews the South African socialist David Hemson. Hemson was a leading labour militant and trade unionist during the mass working class uprising and strikes in Durban in 1973. In this introduction to the videoed interviews, Peter Dwyer discusses working class politics and the struggle against apartheid in South Africa, a history often forgotten or marginalised in popular accounts.

In his announcement declaring martial law, President Yoon Suk Yeol stated that he seeks to eradicate “shameless pro-North Korean anti-state forces”.

What’s at stake in this hearing is not just the freedom of some courageous individuals: it’s the credibility of the British legal system and the lifeblood of democracy itself.