Smashing H&M in South Africa: not the first attack on the garment supply chain (and not the last either!) Hand-wringing over the trashing of a few H&M branches in South Africa ignores the…
Squatters and the State: Back Street Politics in the Islamic Republic - Asef Bayat The early 1990s saw a period of renewed urban popular uprisings in Iran, unprecedented since the…
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…
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…
