Activism

An influential anti-lockdown campaign has links to Nigel Farage’s ‘World4Brexit’ project, reports Sam Bright

Melissa Chemam speaks to campaigners and creatives taking part in Black History Month in Bristol, where the statue of slave trader Edward Colston was brought down in June and discussions about past and present racism continue to run deep

In a debate on the UK’s Black History Month, Kemi Badenoch highlighted the Government’s colonial arrogance by deflecting attention and throwing its ‘special’ ally under the bus

Jan Fuscoe, of the Brick Lane Project, tells the story of Balwinder Singh Rana, an Indian activist who has been fighting racism and structural attempts at division in Britain for decades

Stuart Spray investigates the environmental impact of Drax in North Yorkshire, the world’s largest wood-consuming power station

In the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement and ahead of a new drama by Steve McQueen, Jan Fuscoe speaks to one of the last surviving members of the ‘Mangrove Nine’, whose trial in the 1970s was a defining moment for Black Power in Britain

Nikola Mikovic considers the future of the opposition movement in Belarus, after autocrat Alexander Lukashenko was secretly inaugurated for a sixth consecutive term

Following his arrest at a recent Extinction Rebellion protest, Rupert Read sets out his new ‘David versus Goliath’ campaign for change by example

Tommy Walker reports on the more nuanced methods of resistance democrats are adopting in the face of repressive new laws

Stephen Colegrave considers the importance and potential outcome of the Climate Assembly UK report published today

While the UN continues to highlight the urgent need to tackle climate change, the British Government continues to vilify activists argues Stuart Spray

Jonathan Fenton-Harvey reports on how ordinary people have stepped in to pick up the pieces in the wake of the explosion in Beirut, which shockingly laid bare the country’s corrupt status quo

China's strategy for the former British colony is unique – to encourage self-censorship through fear. Tommy Walker reports from Hong Kong

Carole Concha Bell reports on how the Mapuche indigenous community is being tyrannised by far-right groups, multinationals and the Government

Nikola Mikovic explores the extent to which the eastern European country's fate is tied to Russia and its dependence on it for resources

Following the arrest of campaigners under the new National Security Law, British parliamentarians condemn the Hong Kong Police's response to their report examining breaches of humanitarian law and human rights by the force

CJ Werleman speaks to Drew Pavlou about his experience of the force of Chinese Communist Party repression – when he held a protest at his university in Australia

In the wake of a popular uprising against President Lukashenko, Steven Komarnyckyj looks at the important differences with the overthrow of Ukrainian President Yanukovych in 2014

As a new parliamentary report accuses the city's police force of humanitarian and human rights abuses, calls continue for the UK Government to take a tougher stance towards Beijing