This year’s event in London saw more than 100,000 take to the streets ~ Blade Runner ~ Building on last year’s momentum of the world’s largest ever Trans+ protest, the march on Saturday (26 July) is once again being largely ignored by a media more focused on laundering Israel’s ongoing genocide and platforming far-right hate, racism, and
As the state doubles down on binary gender, trans resistance challenges the machinery of control from below ~ Blade Runner ~ On 16 April 2025, the UK Supreme Court ruled that the term “woman” in the Equality Act 2010 refers exclusively to so-called “biological sex”.
Protesters across the UK were a diverse crowd, with slogans ranging from plaintive to militant ~ Kell w Farshéa ~ Mass demonstrations took place across the UK yesterday (19 April) protesting the Supreme Court decision on the interpretation of transgender people’s rights under the Equalities Act.
Trans people must form coalitions to face a government joining the side of cruelty ~ Kell w Farshéa ~ From the genocide in Gaza to refusing to apologise for the enslavement of millions of Africans, from the two-child cap to banning all trans healthcare for under 18s – Keir Starmer’s government is showing us that
How long have we been telling you that they wouldn’t stop with trans and nonbinary people?
We belong together and in front against fascism and all kinds of oppression
In terms of the history of the transgender and gender non-conforming community, there have been centuries of resilience, struggle, and triumph in the face of societal norms and prejudices.
I wore a slogan against the World Boxing Council in my last match.
Content note: this article discusses violence against trans people.
French police directed the demonstration with flash grenades and tear gas ~ from Contre Attaque ~ Saturday, 13 September, a rainy day in Nantes.
To resist normalisation, we need enduring groundwork with attacked communities—and spaces for open strategising ~ Blade Runner ~ On Saturday 13 September, between 110,000 and 150,000 turned out in response to Tommy Robinson’s call, a mobilisation framed as a defence of “free speech” but saturated with white nationalist, Islamophobic and anti-migrant rhetoric.
Well-coordinated direct action catches the police off guard, showing the power of secure and strategic organising ~ Kevin Blowe ~ On 9 September, at around 7.30 in the morning, an advance bloc of about 150 protesters, their faces covered, suddenly appeared by London City Hall in east London, near to where Britain’s largest arms fair,
The regime deported 52 political prisoners in exchange for sanctions relief ~ Nikita Ivansky ~ Anarchist Nikolai (Mikola) Dziadok was among 52 political prisoners released and deported from Belarus to Lithuania on 11 September, following negotiations between dictator Alexander Lukashenko and US envoy John Colae.
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