Liverpool 1981 - An Eye Witness Account of the Toxteth Riots A personal account of the racist policing which sparked riots in the Toxteth area of Liverpool in…
School walkouts, police crackdown as St Louis rebellion continues Hundreds of school students walked out of school this morning as police continued to crack down on…
Two days of protests in St Louis after Jason Stockley verdict St Louis has seen two nights of street protests following the not guilty verdict for police officer…
Police brutality leads to pro-migrant march in Rome After a refugee eviction in Rome ended with shocking scenes of police violence, migrants and their supporters took to the streets.
The G20 Summit: Beyond Broken Glass and Protest The results of the G20 summit in Hamburg, which cost €130 million, have been, as expected, modest. According to official announcements the G20…
Brutal police tactics lead to several injured at protests against nuclear waste landfill in Bure On August 15th, several people protesting the project of nuclear waste landfill…
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…
