“It’s your world too, you can do what you want”: the role of subcultural activism in stop the city protests (1983-1984) and its implications for political protest in Britain’

Stop The City Protest

Paper written by Rebecca Binns in 2022 analysing the London Stop the City protests in 1983 and 1984, in PDF format.

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Formatting on this one will…

Formatting on this one will need a fair bit of work.

Yeah the text was a bit…

Yeah the text was a bit borked but the PDF is fine I think...

If we can fix the text we…

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