Protest
Iran After Khamenei
An interview with sociologist Asef Bayat on the U.S.-Israeli war, democratic opposition to the Islamic Republic, and the country’s uncertain future.
The Right to Be Hostile
Crackdowns on pro-Palestinian protest force a reckoning with inflated definitions of harm and harassment.
When We Are All Enemies of the State
A recently discovered 1974 speech by Stuart Hall on Walter Rodney—and why fascists fear ideas.
UCLA’s Unholy Alliance
House Republicans accuse student protesters of vicious anti-Semitism, but it is administrators who are courting violence.
Many Speak for Palestine
The solidarity movement doesn’t have a single leader—and it doesn’t need one.
Letter to Columbia President Minouche Shafik
You are keeping no one safe, except for your donors, trustees, and the university’s endowment.
The Real Scandal of Campus Protest
It’s not that there has been too much student protest. It’s that there has not been much, much more of it.
South Africa’s Enduring Unfreedom
An interview with S’bu Zikode, leader of the shack dwellers’ movement, thirty years after apartheid’s end.
Aaron Bushnell and the Power of Protest
A Vietnam veteran on the political legacy of self-sacrifice and antiwar movements.
Can Divestment Campaigns Still Work?
Decades after apartheid South Africa, student activists face a new obstacle: the financialization of university endowments.
The Right Comes for Milwaukee
Why did the blue city agree to host the Republican National Convention—and to suspend a hard-won police reform for its duration?
There Can Be No Critique
Not only does censorship allow the slaughter of Palestinians to continue; it also serves as the mirror and justification for state violence.
Cop Cities in a Militarized World
The United States has long supported the repression of Latin American land defenders. The tactics it exported are coming to the Atlanta forest.
An Open Letter from Faculty at West Virginia University
The crisis here spells disaster for the future of public education.
Escape from the Closed Loop
Protests in China are shining a light not only on the country’s draconian population management but restrictions on workers everywhere.
The Lifeblood of Iranian Democracy
From street demonstrations to song, dance, film, and poetry, women are advancing a long legacy of struggle against authoritarianism.
Twenty Years of Freedom Dreams
Robin D. G. Kelley published his pathbreaking history of the Black radical imagination in 2002. Where are we two decades later?
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