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Protests and police repression in Nigeria

Reports from Kano and Abuja: the End Hunger protests, mass arrests and police brutality.

‘In Our Millions’: the policing of Palestine protests since October 7th 

The movement for Palestine must also be a movement against police.

Protesters try to de-arrest someone from a police van outside Thales in Glasgow.

The shift in Glasgow and how we fight back

What to make of new violence against the Palestine solidarity movement?

Video | Abolition Revolution

Why do we have a police force in the first place? How does policing uphold racism, capitalism and colonialism?

Palestine solidarity protesters face down police repression in London

rs21 members refute claims of “clashes” between police and protesters on Saturday’s Free Palestine Coalition march.

Review | White Riot

Novel celebrating anti-racist and anti-fascist struggles

Palestine solidarity, the anti-BDS bill and the security state

Legal attacks on Palestine solidarity are part of a wider clampdown on protests and strikes.

a large crowd stand outside the court with a banner reading Stop Deportations

The Brook House Three trial: a major victory for anti-deportation activists

Jury sees justice in their activism: Lisa Leak reports on the trial.

Voter suppression and protest repression: the Tories’ attack on democracy

The government is swiftly and systematically destroying the rights on which ordinary people rely: to vote, to protest, to strike.

Behind the Cardiff riot: a community failed by police and politicians

Following the tragic death of two young people in Ely on Monday and the riot that followed, the police’s version of events has unravelled. But, as Ann Marie Zogina reports, the area in west Cardiff has not only been failed by the police, but the politicians who claim to represent it as well. Tragedy has […]

United Family and Friends march, October 2022

Abolition Revolution: a vital step into the future

We need to get rid of police and prisons entirely.

Man carries placard with slogan Police everywhere Justice nowhere

24 reasons to abolish the Met Police

Violent, racist, repressive: why we need to scrap the Met

activists mill around barricades and other access-prevention materials, while in the distance there are lines of police, police vans and cranes.

Lützerath: solidarity with climate activists under attack

Climate activists fight to stop the destruction of a German village and the expansion of German coal.

Marchers with placards reading Justice for Chris Kaba!

Justice for Chris Kaba, shot dead by Met Police

5,000 marchers accuse police of racism

Judges in ornate robes

The limits of the law

We need less law, and better ways to change society

LGSM members' die-in on the Pride route

Activists tell Pride in London: ‘no pride in cops or borders’

On Saturday 2 July, Lesbians and Gays Support the Migrants halted the Pride in London march to protest against police presence at the event.

Mad Pride campaigns for psychiatric abolition

Hundreds gathered to oppose abuse of psychiatric patients, celebrate Mad culture, and call for psychiatric abolition.

Photo of protest outside Stoke Newington police station on 18 March after revalations that Child Q was strip-searched in her school in Hackney

Cops out of schools!

rs21 members report on the protests in London and Manchester after the revelation that Child Q was strip searched in her school.

Photo of protestors in the London demonstration as part of the Kill the bill day of action on 15 January 2022. Banners include Stop the War, the Revolutionary Communist Group, Extinction Rebellion, migrants welcome, and homemade placards.

Today’s #KilltheBill protests show that the fight against increased police powers will continue

Protests on the eve of the final House of Lords vote on the Police Crime and Sentencing bill are not a last-ditch effort but a warmup for the fight to come, writes Charlotte Powell.

Kill The Bill: the day of action

rs21 members took part in a social media campaign as part of the #KillTheBill day of action against the new Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill on Saturday 21 August 2021,

Protesters with Kill The Bill placards

Amending the Police Bill won’t be enough

Kate Bradley summarises the scrutiny report by the Joint Committee on Human Rights on the Police Crime Sentencing and Courts Bill, considering how this might impact this new repressive legislation.

Demonstrators in the nationwide protests against tax reforms

Colombia: ‘the hegemony of the right is cracking up’

The mass movement has forced the withdrawal of President Iván Duque’s tax reform proposal and has shed light on a much broader situation of discontent.

A shadowy figure in a suit holds a gun while sitting on a chair

The ruling class is the original OCG

What keeps us watching Line of Duty?

Banner reads 'kill the bill'

The Police Bill, lockdown and the right to protest

Barrister David Renton explores why the government is so determined to suppress protest, the Police Bill, and the impact of the Covid Regulations on protest rights.

View from the city walls as Loyalists prepare a bonfire in the Fountain estate in Derry

What’s behind the riots in the North of Ireland?

The riots in the North of Ireland must be understood in the context of continued sectarian division and state repression.

Image of Kill the Bill protesters in Parliament Square

#KillTheBill – where it came from, where it’s going

Th Police Bill is an assault on us all and an attack on us all must be met by resistance from us all. Unity and solidarity must be the clarion call of this movement.

Mums & Nanas bloc at Kill the Bill protest in Bristol

‘We are peaceful, what are you?’: Bristol against police powers

Bristol has been one of the major flashpoints in the protest movement against the bill, with demonstrations being violently suppressed by local police.

Kill the Bill!

Tens of thousands took to the streets around the country over the Easter weekend to protest against the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill. rs21 members who attended the protests report in pictures.

Image shows a woman holding up a placard reading Power to the People Not the Police with a backdrop of other women in the crowd.

We Will Not Be Divided – Statement from Sisters Uncut

Sisters Uncut’s statement against police and state violence and the Police Crime Sentencing and Courts Bill 2021, originally published on 23 March 2021. rs21 signed the statement alongside groups including Black Lives Matter UK, Jewish Solidarity Action and Docs Not Cops. 

Bristol police officers moving to suppress an occupation in 2011.

A criminal record: 10 times Bristol police abused local people

Bristol’s police force – presented by the media as the victims of a ‘mob’ – are among the most violent, racist and abusive parts of Britain’s police state.