protests

Reports

University of Bristol paid private security firm to ‘spy’ on pro-Palestine protesters

Bristol is among 12 UK universities using Horus Security to monitor protest groups, raising fears of growing campus surveillance

Sean Morrison
Sean Morrison

Edition 43

Three people standing in front of a jet wing hold white signs in front of their faces

On the road in Filton – Bristol’s arms trade quarter

Michal Grant
Michal Grant

Investigations

The rise and fall of Bristol Patriots

Adam Quarshie Sean Morrison Priyanka Raval
Adam Quarshie, Sean Morrison and Priyanka Raval

Features

Bristol’s Kurdish community rallies for Rojava

As attacks intensify in northern Syria, Kurdish Bristolians Tara and Tanya speak to the Cable about betrayal, resistance and why the women-led revolution must be defended

Tom Anderson
Tom Anderson

Photography

In pictures: Antifascists assemble outside Mercure Hotel to oppose anti-migrant protesters

Suzanne Celerier
Two individuals smiling at the camera, standing close together. One is wearing a 'Bristol Cable' branded T-shirt and the other a plain green T-shirt. The text 'PEOPLE JUST DO SOMETHING' is displayed across the front. In the background is a grainy image of high-rise buildings.

People Just Do Something

Listen: People Just Do Something – Isaac meets the Great Baldini at Cribbs Causeway’s Tesla Takedown

Priyanka Raval George Colwey
Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins, Priyanka Raval and George Colwey

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs

Listen: Bristol Unpacked, with activist Jasmine York on being jailed after the Kill the Bill riots

Jasmine York, who was jailed for arson after the 2021 Kill the Bill riots, discusses those days that rocked the city, and abolishing prisons.

Neil Maggs / Maggs Smart Media George Colwey Adam Cantwell-Corn
Neil Maggs / Maggs Smart Media, George Colwey and Adam Cantwell-Corn

Police and Crime bill

Mother of jailed Kill the Bill protester: ‘We never thought she’d get this long’ 

The mother of a woman recently sentenced to five and a half years after being found guilty of riot speaks out.

Hannah Vickers
Hannah Vickers

Police and Crime bill

Two women jailed after Kill the Bill violence

Jasmine York has been sentenced to 9 months for arson, after being found not guilt of riot, and Mariella Gedge-Roberts to 5.5 years for riot.

Hannah Vickers
Hannah Vickers

Police and Crime bill

Kill the Bill protester cleared of riot, found guilty of arson

Jasmine York will be sentenced on 14 March, but has been released on unconditional bail until then.

Hannah Vickers
Hannah Vickers

Police and Crime bill

Jury convicts man of riot and arson after first Kill the Bill trial

Ryan Roberts will be sentenced after a psychiatric assessment, in around six weeks.

Hannah Vickers
Hannah Vickers

Bristol's Kill the Bill protests

Police used ‘excessive force’ during Bristol Kill the Bill protests, as parliamentary inquiry finds ‘significant failings’

A new report into policing of Bristol’s Kill the Bill protests and the Clapham vigil for Sarah Everard has found that police used excessive force and failed to distinguish between violent and peaceful protesters.

Hannah Vickers
Hannah Vickers
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