Subjects Archives: Protest

Thousands of Chileans were beaten and sprayed with high-pressure water guns while marching to pay tribute to the victims of the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship.

Many of you know that the Yiddish word chutzpah means extreme self-confidence or audacity.

Recent student-led campus encampments in solidarity with Palestine prompted considerable media conversation.

Throughout history, young protesters have stood up against the status quo to bring about change. Generation Z has arisen, offering a priceless sacrifice to free Kenya from a malevolent system of governance.

Queer people fight for a liberated and just world. Their solidarity with Palestine is therefore simply consistent.

Violent regime change in the South Asian country of Bangladesh unfolded rapidly and mostly by stealth as the rest of the world focused on the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, growing tensions in the Middle East and a simmering confrontation between the U.S. and China in the Asia-Pacific region.

DELIVERY drivers in the gig economy are fearing for their lives because of the wave of far-right riots that continue across the country.

A £150 million waste-to-energy plant sited just 300 yards from a primary school and burning a staggering 150,000 tonnes of unrecycleable waste a year was brought to a standstill on Saturday as Climate Camp Scotland and local campaigners stood together on the picket line.

Protesters arrested for seizing Hind’s Hall at Columbia University are refusing any deals unless protesters at CUNY are offered the same, and they stand in solidarity with those facing the most extreme repression in the movement.

“Revolutionary Spring” challenges the persistent and powerful historical view of the revolutions of 1848—49 as failures.

The militant mobilization of dockworkers at Greece’s major port, Piraeus, on Saturday 15 June led to the cancellation of the arrival of “MSC ALTAIR”, a container ship transporting weaponry and ammunition to Israel.

John Mullen spoke to Green Left Weekly about the rise of the far right in France and prospects for the left in the upcoming election

No doubt like many other people around the world, we have been surprised and increasingly concerned that Noam Chomsky has not commented publicly on current events for around one year; in particular, on the Israeli genocide of Palestinians.

CounterSpin interview with Ellen Schrecker on the attack on academic freedom

Germany’s students, labelled ‘terrorist sympathisers’ for protesting against Israel’s war on Gaza, say their right to free speech is under attack.

America’s universities are on fire.

More than 2,700 protesters have been arrested on 64 college campuses since the initial arrests at Columbia University in New York on April 18. Encampments have appeared at 184 campuses worldwide.

Deakin University and the Australian National University (ANU) have indicated they intend to dismantle the student camps. Students across the country are protesting in support of Palestinian people and against their institutions’ ties with Israel.

 The students in short are moved by a pure sense of humanity.

Police arrested more than 2,300 protesters in at least 58 crackdowns at 44 colleges or universities between April 18 and May 3 as pro-Palestinian encampments spread like wildfire across the U.S. It can reasonably be argued that university administrators themselves provoked students into taking action, and it can certainly be proven that they fanned the flames of defiance after the protests began—by forcibly repressing the protests.