protest – Page 2 – Manchester Historian

Recently students across Manchester united in an empowering march for Reclaim the Night’s forty-fifth anniversary. Attendees protested in solidarity for women, sex worker, trans and non-binary victims of violent misogyny. Speakers talked of their experiences furthering the campaign for safer streets and for GMCA to cut ties with organisations harming women and sex workers. This march is part of a long history of student collective action for social justice. The students of Manchester Anti-Apartheid protest exemplifies this tradition and perhaps we can learn something from this movement to inform the activism of today.

Following a clampdown on online abuse, two twitter ‘trolls’ who targeted a social campaigner have been jailed over their remarks. Alice Rigby explores individual protest.

Kathryn White looks at the disputed Olympics of the past, for example Nazi Germany, Munich and Moscow, analysing why sport and politics can collide so easily.

In light of the rise and then fall of the police’s popularity surrounding the “Plebgate” scandal, Caroline Bishop investigates the police’s history as public heroes and villains.

James Eatwell looks at student protest movements around the world in the 1960s.