Police out of Pride! 5 arrested at Glasgow Pride as Police Scotland lead the parade Five LGBT+ activists have been arrested after protesting police involvement in Glasgow Pride.
16th August 1848 - the last attempted armed rising on English soil? A short history of the attempted armed uprising of Chartists at Seven Dials in London, which was…
The Hilo massacre, 1938 Detailed history of the Hilo massacre, Hawaii's Bloody Monday, when police opened fire at a crowd of unarmed striking longshoremen, injuring 50,…
Rioting or Protesting? Losing It or Finding It? Reflections on the 1975 Chapeltown riot by Max Farrar. The author was arrested for threatening behaviour, assaulting a policeman, incitement to…
From Oldham to Bradford: the violence of the violated From April to July 2001, the northern English towns of Oldham, Burnley and Bradford saw violent…
The Northern ‘race riots’ of the summer of 2001 – were they riots, were they racial? Max Farrar's draft study of the 2001 riots in Harehills, Leeds is one of very few serious…
Justice for Rash - police kill a twenty year old black man in Hackney Police chased Rash into a shop, then held him on the floor for several minutes. He stopped breathing…
What made large scale resistance possible at the G20 in Hamburg? An on-the-ground account from the G20 protests in Hamburg, Germany originally posted by Black Rose…
Blood on their hands: the racist history of modern police unions Against the background of the black lives matter movement, Flint Taylor takes a look at the racist…
1874: The Tompkins Square Police Riot An account of a cop riot in 1874 where mounted police attacked public demonstrations by organised Unemployed workers associations in New York…
A World Without Police A pamphlet stressing the need to abolish police as an institution which provides some practical steps for communities to take in that process.