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A Revolutionary Rampage? London's Million Mask March

Fuck the system — This year's annual Guy Fawkes inspired Million Mask March through London was all about fireworks, flares and frustration. Every year, thousands descend on the city to demand a revolution, and this time we went down to watch.

  • Activism
  • Michael Segalov

Talks clean, acts dirty: Why we're calling bullshit on Big Oil lies

What you lying for? — Despite the fact it's pretty much universally acknowledged that climate change is set to destroy humanity and the planet, big oil companies still get away with making billions through screwing up the planet. And guess what? A PR stunt today from the world's biggest conglomerates means absolutely nothing. That's why we turned up outside.

  • Activism
  • Charlie Satow

The families of those who've died in police custody are still demanding justice

No justice, no peace — The United Families and Friends Campaign held their annual procession through London this weekend to demand justice for those who've died in police custody.

  • Activism
  • Theo McInnes

This is what 30 years of British counterculture looks like

Exist to Resist — Matthew Smith has spent three decades documenting street culture at its rawest, from rural raves to political protests, in the face of police pressure.

  • Culture
  • Khadija Ahmed

We don't need saving: London sex workers demand an end to racist police raids

No bad women, just bad laws — Women from the English Collective of Prostitutes and the Sex Workers Open University protest police attitudes to migrants sex workers. Sex workers don't need a hero, they say, but to be treated like humans.

  • Culture
  • Ella Guthrie

The story of the Russian activist who nailed his scrotum to Red Square

Flames of resistance — Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova threw down a gauntlet in 2012, but it’s been picked up by flame-throwing performance artist Pyotr Pavlensky. The Moscow City Court will this week consider an appeal against his sentence, after he was found guilty of setting fire to the Moscow headquarters of the Federal Security Service (FSB). Huck headed to Moscow to hear Pyotr’s story in person, while he sat in prison, from the two people who best understand his elaborately defiant acts.

  • Activism
  • Natalia Antonova

Photos from this weekend's protest demanding action in Aleppo

Bearing the brunt — Hundreds of people stand outside Downing Street to demand the UK government takes action to bring an end to the bloodshed in Aleppo.

  • Activism
  • Theo McInnes

What American activism looks like in 2016

United States in revolt — Pete Voelker’s passion for both photography and activism may have started young, but the ignition of social justice movements across the United States in the last few years pulled him into action. Now this New York based photographer is immortalising some of the most important political movements of the 21st century.

  • Photography
  • Marianna Manson

Pussy Riot's Maria Alyokhina learnt young the price paid for standing up to injustice

A life of punk protest — We've all watched the videos, we've seen the pictures of Pussy Riot taking on the Russian state on our screens. For Maria Alyokhina though, a life of challenging the status quo, and paying for the consequences, had started many years before. Sam Williams meets Alyokhina in London, as she performs in a new play, Burning Doors.

  • Activism
  • Sam Williams

The hip-hop heroes fighting oppression in conflict areas

Stronger than a weapon — From political prisoners to former child soldiers, photographer Sascha Kraus has travelled the globe documenting outspoken figures doing what they do best: rapping for survival.

  • Culture
  • Cian Traynor

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