The UK government: bastion of freedom – but wants to clamps down on protest?
Hongkongers in the UK and their allies are raising the alarm about provisions in the government’s policing bill…
Protest
Labour will always defend the right to protest against Tory power grabs
The right to protest is a fundamental freedom, a hard-won democratic tradition that we are deeply proud of.…
Leave or Remain, we all hate Tommy Robinson – and must fight him together
In the face of an emboldened far right, as seen from thousands-strong marches across Europe to a rising…
Labour must be more than a party of protest, says Ashworth
Shadow Cabinet minister Jonathan Ashworth has warned Labour against becoming a party of protest and told the Left…
I want a Labour Party that doesn’t protest cuts, it reverses them
On Saturday I went on a demo. I went into the middle of Oxford where I live, with…
Defeat doesn’t make us defunct
It’s frustrating when protests and demonstrations are shrugged of as a meaningless waste of time and those who…
Why ‘pay-to-protest’ is an offense against Labour values
The Metropolitan Police’s recent demand that the Million Women Rise and Campaign against Climate Change marches pay for…
In defence of protest
The brutal display of employer power during the Grangemouth Oil Refinery dispute has been pretty shocking. A workforce…
Lessons from Europe: Should Ed cosy up to the St Paul’s protestors?
In yesterday’s Observer Ed Miliband wrote a piece entitled “business, finance and politics are out of touch with…
