Police arrest LGBTIQA+ activists at Glasgow Pride
Five LGBTIQA+ activists were arrested at Glasgow Pride on Saturday after peacefully protesting the police presence. Several activists engaged in a peaceful blockade against the police leading the parade...
8 reasons Greens should stand in Police & Crime Commissioner (PCC) elections
Adam McGibbon, Caroline Lucas’ campaign manager for the General Election, and now the Greens’ London Mayoral & Assembly campaign manager, gives some reasons why Greens should stand in the...
Lessons from Ferguson and #Blacklivesmatter
We’ve all seen reports from Ferguson, protests, and the killing on camera of a black man in New York. The Police, far from being the servants of the people,...
Police suppress challenges to university marketisation
Clifford Fleming is the co-convenor of the Young Greens of England and Wales, and Campaigns and Citizenship Officer at the University of Manchester Students’ Union. He tweets Universities...
An open letter to my bailiffs
To whom it may concern, thank you for your letters requesting £1000. Thank you in particular for the recent letter regarding a “Distress Warrant”. It is a helpful reminder...
Villa Amalias statement: we are, and we shall remain here.
On Thursday Greek police raided a long-standing squat in Athens, arresting 8 people – who have been charged with felonies relating to the construction of explosives. The squat had...
8 months of police harrasment, finally behind me.
Last week, Sean Farmelo was found not guilty of violent disorder at a student protest in February. Here is his shocking account of what happened: a story of fabricated...
Tabloids insult dead PCs in pursuit of a back-to-the-50s agenda
Why have the Manchester police officers killed on duty have been mislabelled "WPCs" and had their ability to serve in frontline policing questioned by papers usually keen to stand...
Hillsborough: Two oranges
Matt Hanley watched the Hillsborough disaster on TV as a nine-year-old Liverpool fan.
The Real Scandal of Police Sexual Offences
Over the last few days the Guardian has reported that that, in the space of four years, there have been fifty six known cases where a police officer or...