Patterns of rural protest: Chiefs, slaves, and peasants in north western Sierra Leone 1896-1956 PhD dissertation by Ismail Rachid focusing on slave and peasant resistance to…
Reflections on the 1955 Freetown Riots by a senior police officer This is not a first hand account of the riots, and it is given from the point of view of a police…
Strike and protests against Macron's employment law Four unions called a general strike for today against French President Macron’s new employment law, this is often referred to as Macron 2 or…
Port Adelaide struggles, 1928-1931 Photo gallery of the strikes and riots at Port Adelaide in Australia which began in 1928 when the employers introduced new working conditions…
A spree of rebellions in the Greater Noida, India An expansion of the Delhi-NCR region, New Okhla Industrial Development Authority - NOIDA - is an example of 21st century expansion of wage-labour…
Bure, France: march turns into riots at demonstration against nuclear waste landfill In the French eastern region of Meuse, three hundreds to a thousand people rallied this Tuesday…
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…
Riot or Protest, the Hyde Park riot in Leeds, 1995 In the Hyde Park area of Leeds, there was a night of rioting on 10th July 1995 in response to police continued police harassment of locals,…
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…
Manningham riots, Bradford 1995 Manningham in Bradford erupted into two nights of pitched battles against police, after police brutality against two asian youths on 9th June 1995.
Folk devils and moral panics A detailed study by Stanley Cohen of the making of "moral panics" by the media, in particular examining the mods and rockers youth culture in the…
