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2020: The year in UK activism

People power — We recall month by month what has been a tumultuous year in the fight for social justice.

  • Activism
  • Ben Smoke

On the frontlines of the Indian farmers' strike

'A do or die battle' — As protests over a controversial new farming law in India spread to other cities across the world, those leading the demonstrations are refusing to back down until their demands are met.

  • Activism
  • Dhruva Balram

How the 2010 student protests radicalised me

A decade of fighting — 10 years on from the tuition fee vote, writer Ben Smoke reflects on the violence and chaos of a day that would shape the future politics of a generation.

  • Activism
  • Ben Smoke

Inside the fight against Poland's abortion ban

#AbortionWithoutBorders — The Polish government has delayed its abortion ban amid nationwide protests, but activist groups are keeping on the pressure and helping women access legal procedures overseas.

  • Activism
  • Alexander Durie

In Scotland, sex workers are battling for their rights

#NotEqualNotSafe — Campaigners are fighting back on plans from the Scottish government to make buying sex illegal, highlighting the grave danger it would cause to sex workers.

  • Activism
  • Megan Wallace

Disabled people don't want handouts: we want equality

Visibility now — To mark 25 years this month since the Disability Discrimination Act came into effect, in an extract from her book 'Crippled', writer Frances Ryan argues that it's time to stop seeing disabled people as a drain on the public purse and to defend their fundamental rights.

  • Opinion
  • Frances Ryan

The TikTok student activists occupying Manchester Uni

#OccupyUoM — In protest of their university's handling of coronavirus, nine Manchester students have taken over a tower in Fallowfields and are using TikTok to document their occupation and to galvanise a new generation of organisers.

  • Activism
  • Joe Goodman

How photography shaped US protests over half a century

Picturing resistance — From the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter, a new book considers the crucial role of photography as a weapon in the fight for freedom and justice.

  • Culture
  • Miss Rosen

The radical history of Southall, London's Little India

Home Away From Home — When an 18-year-old was killed in a racist attack in Southall in 1976, it sparked the first and biggest youth-led movement of anti-racism the district had ever seen. Writer Sharan Dhaliwal reflects on the area's rich political history and immense cultural pride.

  • Activism
  • Sharan Dhaliwal

We must abolish the police to create a more equal society

Enough is enough — A new book entitled Abolishing the Police (An Illustrated Introduction) asks what dismantling the police would actually look like. Below, its editor Koshka Duff and contributor Connor Woodman interrogate our current institution's role in upholding a profoundly unequal and crisis-ridden social order.

  • Activism
  • Koshka Duff and Connor Woodman

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