Saturday, June 25, 2022

'Women Choose, Don't Argue!' - punks protest against anti-abortion bill 1979

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In 1979, Conservative MP John Corrie introduced a private member's bill aiming to restrict abortion rights. In the climate of New Right ...
Wednesday, June 22, 2022

Marching against megadeath - June 22 1980 in London

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Peter Kennard's design for the flyer/poster The announcement of the deployment of a new generation of US nuclear weapons in Europe, coup...
Sunday, June 19, 2022

'Being a clubber felt special' - Dom Phillips' 1990s Mixmag

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Terrible to hear of the murder of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira in Brazil - not just an isolated act of violence but a moment in a brutal w...
Wednesday, June 15, 2022

'Low Class foreigners' and men dancing with men: Police raid Italian club in Soho (1900)

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A police raid on an Italian-run club in Soho in 1900 led to fighting with police outside and the proprietors being jailed. The Co-operative ...
Friday, June 10, 2022

Rwanda 'Stop the Plane' deportations protest

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Demonstration on Wednesday 9 June 2022 at Rwandan embassy in London (Seymour Place W1H) protesting against UK government plans to start depo...
Friday, June 03, 2022

Anti-Jubilee Agitprop 1977

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The most famous moment of opposition to the Queen's 'Silver Jubilee' in 1977 (to mark 25 years on the throne) was of course the ...

Ma'at, slave ships and refugees at Runnymede

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Runnymede by the River Thames was the site of the signing of the Magna Carta*, a step towards limiting the power of monarchy (though still s...
Thursday, May 19, 2022

May Days in Dublin, 1994

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I have taken part in many May Day celebrations large and small, but the biggest was certainly in Dublin in 1994. The occasion was a huge par...
Thursday, May 12, 2022

New Protest Laws and Two Years of London Protests

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The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 is now law, bringing in new police powers summarised by Liberty as including: Creating a ...