Manchester City fans are planning further protests over what they say is the club’s refusal to increase the number of season ticket-holders. Despite winning the last four Premier League titles and recovering this season to third position, there is discontent among some supporters. A group staged a second protest this month before their win over...
A trial of nearly 200 people arrested in protests against the Turkish government has opened in Istanbul. Mass demonstrations began on 19 March after Istanbul’s mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu – a key rival of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan – was detained on corruption charges, which he denies. Most of the 189 defendants in the trial, which opened...
Azadeh Moshiri Pakistan correspondent EPA Police have been stationed outside KFCs across major cities Police in Pakistan have made dozens of arrests following a string of protests targeting KFC branches across the country which led to one man being killed. Protesters, angry at the war in Gaza, have been urging a boycott of the chain,...
Emma Davies/BBC Protesters in front of a Tenerife hotel on Thursday Holidaymakers heading to Tenerife in the Canary Islands are warned to prepare for disruption as hotel workers take part in strikes at the start of the Easter bank holiday weekend. Organisers say workers on the island are striking on Thursday and Friday in a...
“I was sat here before you were born!” Michael Carney’s homemade placard aimed at Manchester United’s hierarchy during Sunday’s derby was blunt, impactful and certainly eye-catching. “74 years of loyal support – for what?” was written on the other side. Carney, 81, held his sign towards the Old Trafford directors’ box midway through the second-half...
The resistance is back. Liberals put together some large protests over the weekend in several cities around the country. There are claims that as many as 600,000 people participated but that’s really just a guess. Demonstrators had no shortage of causes as they gathered in towns and cities across...
Robin Levinson King in Boston, Jenna Moon in Washington DC & Bernd Debusmann Jr in Florida BBC News Getty Images Thousands of people turned out for a protest in Washington DC. Crowds of liberal protesters have amassed in cities across the US to denounce Donald Trump’s presidency, in the largest nationwide show of opposition since...
The government has agreed a new funding package with pharmacy negotiators in England, leading some pharmacies to call off protests that were planned for later this week. One group representing thousands of local pharmacies was preparing to take action involving cuts to opening hours from Tuesday, but they say that will be delayed while they...
The new documentary The Encampments, produced by Watermelon Pictures and BreakThrough News, is an insider’s look at the student protest movement to demand divestment from the U.S. and Israeli weapons industry and an end to the genocide in Gaza. The film focuses on last year’s student encampment at Columbia University and features student leaders including...
Palestinians took to the streets this week in various parts of the Gaza Strip calling for Hamas to step down from power and bring an end to the war. Some of the demonstrators in places like al-Shuja’iyya in Gaza City called on Hamas to step down and leave ceasefire negotiations to the Palestinian Authority and...
Thomas Mackintosh BBC News Reuters Thousands of people in Turkey have turned out for a seventh night of protests which have so far seen more than 1,400 people detained, including students, journalists and lawyers. The nightly unrest began last Wednesday when the city’s Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu – who is seen as the President Recep Tayyip...
On Wednesday 26 March, protesters across the country are mobilising against the Labour Party-led Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) brutal cuts to vital disability and health-related benefits. In multiple cities and towns all over the UK, activists will turn out with a resounding message to the Labour government: to end its war on chronically...
International outrage and charges of “viciousness” and “outright autocracy” have followed Sunday’s imprisonment of Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s top political rival, the popular Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, who is seen as Erdogan’s likeliest opposition challenger in upcoming national elections. The corruption charges levied against İmamoğlu, a member of the Republican People’s Party (CHP), are...
Chronically ill and disabled activists and allies took to the streets on Saturday 22 March against the Labour Party’s planned brutal cuts to their benefits. Protesters mobilised across the country in 14 locations to call out the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) disgraceful move to slash social security for sick and disabled people to meet...
Over the past two weeks, the Trump administration’s detention, interrogation and deportation machine has shown a new level of cruelty. The detention and deportation of visa holders, followed by over 200 Venezuelan nationals without due process, has caused judicial controversy and a struggle in the courts. But activists and progressives cannot simply rely on the...