Protest
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Take back control – the slogan the left should make its ownThe right seized power with that ingenious mantra, but the true beneficiaries aren’t ordinary people. The real winner is the state
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If our protests against Donald Trump aren't strategic, they will failTaking to the streets, blocking traffic or marching on Washington will not be enough. What we must do is unite single-issue protests under a broader banner
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Brazil senate approves austerity package to freeze social spending for 20 yearsLawmakers expected to reject requests to exempt education and health spending from measure UN official calls the most socially regressive in the world
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Cameroon urged to investigate deaths amid anglophone protestsFour killed when police fire into air, as tensions rise in English-speaking areas over perceived discrimination
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Muslims to march on White House in bid to dismantle discriminatory registryThousands plan protest in Washington in last-ditch effort to persuade Barack Obama to scrap NSEERs before Donald Trump takes office
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How to Survive a Plague by David France – reviewAn eyewitness of the remarkable 1980s campaign to help Aids sufferers reports straight from the heart of the action
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Standing Rock 'water protectors' use break to help other indigenous causesSome protesters plan to lend solidarity to campaigns, including fight against meth addiction, a proposed telescope in Hawaii and other oil pipelines
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The 50 best TV shows of 2016: No 10 HyperNormalisationAdam Curtis’s dissection of ‘post-truth’ politics and the manipulation of global power made uncomfortable, provocative viewing – especially when it came to Colonel Gaddafi
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It’s hard to know where to start when faced with the prospect of Donald Trump’s presidency. The answer is not seeking alliance with those who devalue our livesCalls for American unity are misplaced. We must fight on for justice
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Women's March on Washington barred from Lincoln MemorialNational Park Service documents bar access to key sites aroud time of inauguration, including those celebrated for their role in 1960s protests
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Public Enemy – 10 of the bestFrom the anthemic to the polemic, here are some of the most influential songs by the self-proclaimed ‘Rolling Stones of rap’
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Rebecca Solnit's Hope in the Dark sells out after Trump victoryFeminist activist’s manifesto for ‘an alternative to the certainty of both optimists and pessimists’, originally published in 2004, sees huge rise in sales
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Dakota Access company takes its battle to finish oil pipeline to court
Move comes after Energy Transfer Partners was denied a key permit to drill under the Missouri river, and as Standing Rock leader urges protesters to go home
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Insurrection – the board game? Bloc by Bloc brings uprising to your living roomBloc by Bloc pits players against the authorities and aims to use a classic board game format to show the impact of gentrification and the power of protest
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Israel refuses visa to theologian over boycott and divestment activismIsabel Phiri is first foreigner denied entry because of alleged involvement with Palestinian-led BDS movement
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The light from Standing Rock: beautiful struggle shows the power of protestIt is not a final victory, and there is much to fear from pipeline investor Donald Trump, but much will come of this gathering and its vision, tactics and power
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Anti-coal protesters rally in Melbourne against Adani loan proposal – videoAnti-fossil fuel campaigners rally against the government’s proposal to lend $1bn to Adani to build a rail line from the planned Carmichael coalmine to the sea
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Yarl's Wood demonstration draws up to 2,000 campaignersHundreds march around detention centre perimeter to denounce rise in hate crime in wake of Brexit vote
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Kinder Morgan pipeline: Canadians intensify huge opposition to expansionTrudeau’s approval of project some find analogous to Standing Rock incited thousands of activists, politicians and First Nations members to increase action
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As this week’s 'glue-in' in parliament shows, the story of protest has no endHistory shows that many protest movements are marked by long phases of apparent futility, until something finally changes
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Afghanistan's first female rapper: 'If I stay silent, nothing will change'She’s been threatened with rape and was beaten in the street, but Paradise Sorouri refuses to stop singing about the horrific injustices inflicted upon Afghan women
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Protesters march in North Carolina over Keith Scott decision – videoDozens of protesters gathered in the rain outside police headquarters in Charlotte to protest about the decision not to prosecute a police officer who shot and killed an armed black man
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Charlotte activists speak out against police after Keith Scott decisionCommunity leaders call on police to encourage officers away from deadly force, after announcement no charges would be brought in September shooting
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Asylum seeker protests hit Parliament House for second day– videoOn the final sitting day of parliament, the same pro-refugee group that interrupted question time on Wednesday hang a banner over Parliament House reading ‘Close the bloody camps now #justiceforrefugees’
Why can’t we elect a Native American like Faith Spotted Eagle as president?