Activism
Thousands protest in London over deaths in police custody
End state violence — Over the weekend, the United Families & Friends Campaign organised a protest calling for an end to deaths at the hands of the police.
Written by: Ben Smoke
Police
Activism
Reclaiming the anti-racist movement from capitalism
Race to the Bottom — Authors Azfar Shafi and Ilyas Nagdee discuss their new book which calls for the recovering of radical histories of anti-racist struggle.
Written by: Adele Walton
Activism
Anti-police protestors storm London Pride parade
No cops at Pride — Yesterday queer activist group Lesbians and Gays support the Migrants staged a die-in at the Pride in London parade to protest the inclusion of police in the march reports Huck politics editor Ben Smoke.
Written by: Ben Smoke
Activism
Immigration raids are being carried out with impunity
Exclusive investigation — In the years between 2017 and 2021, almost all immigration raids were conducted without a warrant a new Huck investigation has found.
Written by: Jack Barton
Activism
‘Charged’: How the police try to suppress protest
Exclusive extract — Writers Matt Foot and Morag Livingstone explore how four decades of collusion between the government and the police have slowly eroded our right to protest.
Written by: Matt Foot and Morag Livingstone
Music
‘I don’t know if I’ll find peace, but I’m going to try’
Conway the Machine — Following the release of his latest album God Don’t Make Mistakes, the rapper talks horror villains, police brutality and being unafraid to show his vulnerable side.
Written by: Thomas Hobbs
Activism
Protestors resist police brutality in Dalston
Cops out — Over the weekend, London locals came together to resist a pre-planned police raid targeting delivery drivers.
Written by: Ben Smoke
Activism
Why the Tories want to rip up our human rights
Power grab — The government is scrapping the Human Rights Act in a move that will hit marginalised people hardest.
Written by: Martha Spurrier
Activism
In New Cross, an immigration raid shows ‘cruelty‘ of police
No one is illegal — The police response to an attempted intervention in an immigration raid in South East London has been labelled ‘brutality’ by campaigners.
Written by: Ben Smoke
Activism
The technology police are using to target minorities
Surveillance state — FoIs obtained by Huck reveal a sharp increase in police fingerprint scanners, with Black and minority ethnic communities more likely to be scanned than their white counterparts.
Written by: Jack Barton
Activism
Protestors set off rape alarms at a London police station
Sisters united — To mark a year since the murder of Sarah Everard, grassroots group Sisters Uncut organised a protest for the public to ‘withdraw their consent from British policing’.
Written by: Ben Smoke