Protest outside Scotland Yard, 15 March 2021. Photo: Shabbir Lakha
Chris Nineham speaks to David Jamieson about the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts bill, and the ways social movements can resist attacks on the right to protest
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Chris Nineham
Chris Nineham is a founder member of Stop the War and Counterfire, speaking regularly around the country on behalf of both. He is author of The People Versus Tony Blair and Capitalism and Class Consciousness: the ideas of Georg Lukacs.
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