Sporting protest terrifies those in power because history tends to prove it right
Campaigners recognise that sport can smash through the fourth wall in a way politics and debate never can.
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What Greta Thunberg’s arrest means
Climate activists are facing dark times with courage.
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Climate activists take the brunt of police crackdown on protests
Exclusive data analysis by the New Statesman exposes a disproportionate rise in police intervention in climate change protests.
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The dangerous conceits of the green revolution
The climate emergency requires serious politics – not bourgeois protests that block traffic and vandalise works of art.
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From Just Stop Oil to Egypt’s hunger striker: climate action is sparking human rights solidarity
Not only can climate activism not be silenced, it is amplifying resistance to global injustice.
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Van Gogh would have loved his soup-covered Sunflowers – and so should we
Safe protest stunts raise the profile of the climate crisis and ask us to think about the bigger picture.
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Fuel price protests can’t just avoid the climate question
Protest groups Fair Fuel and Just Stop Oil have very different solutions to the petrol crisis. Only one is fit…
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Was Donald Trump’s ‘war on coal’ real, or just the market at work?
To make sense of a destabilising planet we must look to the ideas of Antonio Gramsci.
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