Patterns of rural protest: Chiefs, slaves, and peasants in north western Sierra Leone 1896-1956
PhD dissertation by Ismail Rachid focusing on slave and peasant resistance to British colonial rule and local elites between 1896 to 1956.
Reflections on the 1955 Freetown Riots by a senior police officer
This is not a first hand account of the riots, and it is given from the point of view of a police officer, however due to the lack of information about these events online in general we make it available for reference.
Strike and protests against Macron's employment law
Submitted by jef costello on Sep 12 2017 23:01
Four unions called a general strike for today against French President Macron’s new employment law, this is often referred to as Macron 2 or Macron XXL, because he was behind the last revision referred to as the ‘Loi El-Khomri’ and this new law is even worse.
Port Adelaide struggles, 1928-1931
Submitted by Steven. on Sep 10 2017 17:45
Photo gallery of the strikes and riots at Port Adelaide in Australia which began in 1928 when the employers introduced new working conditions. They cut workers' break time - when workers already did 16 to 48 hour shifts, and crucially strengthened the "bull system", whereby bosses would handpick workers. This meant not only workers having to wait around for hours each day to potentially not get any work but also that union workers could be denied hiring. Union leaders rapidly called off the action but workers continued to fight for three years.
A spree of rebellions in the Greater Noida, India
Submitted by Charlie Chap on Aug 21 2017 08:20
An expansion of the Delhi-NCR region, New Okhla Industrial Development Authority - NOIDA - is an example of 21st century expansion of wage-labour based commodity production. Below, we look at some glimpses of what this entails.
Bure, France: march turns into riots at demonstration against nuclear waste landfill
Submitted by oscha on Aug 16 2017 15:15
In the French eastern region of Meuse, three hundreds to a thousand people rallied this Tuesday against a Cigeo -short name for nuclear waste landfill facilities. After the march was quickly stopped by authorities, demonstrators clashed with police in the nearby village of Saudron.
Rioting or Protesting? Losing It or Finding It?
Reflections on the 1975 Chapeltown riot by Max Farrar. The author was arrested for threatening behaviour, assaulting a policeman, incitement to riot and affray, although acquitted after a six week trial.
Riot or Protest, the Hyde Park riot in Leeds, 1995
In the Hyde Park area of Leeds, there was a night of rioting on 10th July 1995 in response to police continued police harassment of locals, sparked by a raid on three houses in the area.
From Oldham to Bradford: the violence of the violated
From April to July 2001, the northern English towns of Oldham, Burnley and Bradford saw violent confrontations between young Asians and the police, culminating in the clashes of 7-9 July in Bradford in which 200 police officers were injured.
The Northern ‘race riots’ of the summer of 2001 – were they riots, were they racial?
Max Farrar's draft study of the 2001 riots in Harehills, Leeds is one of very few serious examinations of the wave of riots that broke out across the North of the UK in 2001.
