Tag: Protest

It’s not that there has been too much student protest. It’s that there has not been much, much more of it.

An interview with S’bu Zikode, leader of the shack dwellers’ movement, thirty years after apartheid’s end.

A Vietnam veteran on the political legacy of self-sacrifice and the necessity of war resistance.

Decades after apartheid South Africa, student activists face a new obstacle: the financialization of university endowments.

Why did the blue city agree to host the Republican National Convention—and to suspend a hard-won police reform for its duration?

A tragedy in Birmingham and the making of a radical.

Not only does censorship allow the slaughter of Palestinians to continue; it also serves as the mirror and justification for state violence.

The United States has long supported the repression of Latin American land defenders. The tactics it exported are coming to the Atlanta forest.

The crisis here spells disaster for the future of public education.

Protests in China are shining a light not only on the country’s draconian population management but restrictions on workers everywhere.

From street demonstrations to song, dance, film, and poetry, women are advancing a long legacy of struggle against authoritarianism in Iran.

Robin D. G. Kelley published his pathbreaking history of the Black radical imagination in 2002. Where are we two decades later?

Its illegitimacy goes far beyond the war on drugs.

We need to reckon with police lies not only as a form of individual misconduct but as a matter of political speech.

Today’s social movements are grappling once again with a central challenge for the New Left: how to remedy injustice while maintaining vitality and independence from the political system.

Founded a century ago, the Chinese Communist Party has repeatedly defied predictions of its demise.

Derecka Purnell interviews historian Elizabeth Hinton about her new book and how talk of “riots” discredits Black political demands.

They are fighting in a global war over the future of agriculture. Modi is chocking the debate.

Detroit police killed hundreds of unarmed Blacks in response to the civil rights movement.

A culture of protest takes hold in 1960s LA.

Thailand has been gripped by the largest wave of protest in years, forcing a reckoning between the country’s dual structures of democracy and monarchy.

Without pressure from social movements, they won’t produce meaningful and deeply needed reform.

A transcript of our panel discussion on the Black Lives Matter movement. 

Through online fan communities and digital platforms like TikTok, popular music is finding powerful new ways to shape everyday activism, protest, and resistance.