Editorial: Not just Peterloo: policing popular protest since 1819
Socialist History - ISSN 0969-4331
Volume 2019 Number 56
Editorial: Not just Peterloo: policing popular protest since 1819
Geoff Brown pages -
Abstract
This issue appears amidst a sea of protest. Recent months have seen millions marching in Hong Kong and Chile, hundreds of thousands on the streets of Lebanon and Barcelona. In Khartoum, similar numbers camped out in the city forcing an end to Omar Al-Bashir’s thirty-year dictatorship, a hundred were killed by the military in June. Tens of thousands have marched in Moscow demanding open elections, with hundreds arrested. In Haiti, police have joined anti-government protests. Scores have been killed on demonstrations in Iraq demanding human rights. In Britain, around half a million marched in London in October calling for a second referendum on Brexit. As in other countries, tens of thousands have been on climate change protests organised by school strikers and Extinction Rebellion.
To cite this article
Geoff Brown (2019) Editorial: Not just Peterloo: policing popular protest since 1819, Socialist History, 2019(56), -