Justice, not hatred, drives student protests on Gaza
Letters: Patrick Owen, Dr Gilbert Pugh and Marianne Gemmeke write in support of the university protest camps that began in the US and have spread to the UK and other countries
Campus protest crackdowns claim to be about antisemitism – but they’re part of a rightwing plan
Arielle Angel
Accusations of antisemitism are the tip of the spear in a frightening illiberal project serving an autocratic agenda
‘Police raids are nothing new’: student protesters from 1960s see history repeating itself
Australian literature has long been ‘hijacked by activists’. This has made it richer. Let’s not go backwards
Sarah Ayoub
Two 17-year-old climate activists claim WA premier Roger Cook defamed them over Woodside protest
April 2024
Echoes of Vietnam era as pro-Palestinian student protests roil US campuses
Chaotic and thrilling: Columbia’s radio station is live from the student protests
‘Stitching the threads’: UK book offers radical vision of a grassroots ecology
There’s no such thing as a benign beef farm – so beware the ‘eco-friendly’ new film straight out of a storybook
George Monbiot
Other lives
Eileen Jarvis obituary
‘Revolutions are coming’: who are Youth Demand and what do they want?
March 2024
Union leader among arrests at pro-Palestine Port Botany protest in Sydney
Thousands rally across Australia in growing push to end native forest logging
Police defend using pepper spray at #WomenWillSpeak rally on Victoria parliament steps
‘Organising is the best kind of antidepressant’: Astra Taylor and Leah Hunt-Hendrix on solidarity
Today in Focus
The silencing of climate protesters in English and Welsh courts
Victorian opposition leader accused of trashing activist’s reputation in second defamation suit
Climate activists across Europe block access to North Sea oil infrastructure
The Guardian view on genteel protest: don’t put a price on the peaceful enjoyment of England’s green fields
