The New Dark Age

Every time politicians and the police talk about ‘recognising’ the right to protest, they take our rights away.

Since 2019, there has been a relentless attack on the right to protest with a series of new laws, new police practices and an increasing willingness to define protest movements as existential security threats to justify these exceptional measures.

It’s time for an end to wilful ambiguity: the public needs to know what citizens should expect and demand from the police when exercising their rights.

Every time politicians and the police talk about ‘recognising’ the right to protest, they take our rights away and then hide behind vagueness and uncertainty about what protest rights mean in practice.

So we have defined the right to protest for them.

It’s time we took matters into our own hands. Download the briefing and join Black Lives Matter, War On Want, Palestine Solidarity Campaign and hundreds of others in backing the Definition by adding your name to the petition.