Image: Golden Dawn on the Streets “Reclaim our cities”. “Self-organise”. “Take neighbourhood action”. Consider these slogans for a moment. Sound familiar? Indeed they should, echoing as they do a body of scholarship (e.g. Amin & Thrift, 2005; Butler, 2012;...
The subversion of law begins with the reduction of politics to a crime.1K.G. Kannabiran, Wages of Impunity: Power, Justice and Human Rights (Delhi: Orient Blackswan, 2004) What is never questioned is the bourgeois state of law upon which modern capitalism...
This morning (19 October 2012) Trenton Oldfield will be sentenced at Isleworth Crown Court for his protest at the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race. He faces a potential custodial sentence for his direct action against government cuts and a culture of elitism in the UK....
It would not be surprising if, in the context of an international conference, a group of jurists from different nations identified a set of common juridical references based on different legal systems. This occurrence would be attributed to the process of...
We are delighted to republish this brief piece from Shadow of the Noose, the increasing criminalisation of protest in UK is troubling. This piece concerns the trial and sentencing of Trenton Oldfield, who disrupted the Oxford/Cambridge Boat Race – it is...
1) The reporting on the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to the European Union has been substandard in its simplification of perspectives to a “for or against” binary. It has been assumed that a view on the awarding of the prize has correspondingly also been a view...
