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  • Riot police on the street

    The police are not here to protect you

    The police spend little of their time making arrests, and most crimes are not solved, writes Alex Vitale – their real purpose is social control

  • Protestors waiving placards denouncing the Iraq War and marching behind a banner. A woman and a policeman are in the foreground

    Defending the right to protest

    Shami Chakrabarti examines the implications of New Labour’s expansion of anti-terror laws, and what it means for the right to protest

  • Was High Court DSEi ruling aimed at stifling Bush protests?

    Activists are increasingly worried that a High Court ruling made in October has given police the green light to use anti-terrorism laws to clamp down on people’s right to peaceful protest

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