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Theresa May. Photo: Flickr/EU2017EE Estonian Presidency

Whether Theresa May wins or loses this no confidence vote, her time is up

Cameron Panting

High school students marching in Marseille stop in the city centre to take up the mass knelt stress position in tribute/solidarity to the students of the Mates-la-Jolie Lycee whom were detained by police for hours in this manner. It has become a symbolic gesture of defiance to Macron and violent state repression for the student movement and others. Photo: Video still, Twitter/laprovence

French high school students rise against Macron in ‘Black Tuesday’ protests

Theresa May speaking outside Downing Street, November 2018. Photo: Number 10 / Flickr

The Tories are incapable of delivering Brexit: we must push them out and do it ourselves

Reuben Bard-Rosenberg

The ‘Not One Day More’ protest against the government, Parliament Square, July 2017. Photo: Garry Knight / Flickr

May’s deal is dead: this is what must happen next

A London polling station. Photo: Flickr/ secretlondon123

There’s only one way out of this mess, and that’s a general election – weekly briefing

A popular initiative to put the banker in prison. Photo: Feyzi Ismail

France: stay on the streets until Macron falls

Grace Blakeley speaking at the ‘People’s Brexit meeting, November 2018. Photo: Platform Films

Grace Blakeley vs the EU – video

Theresa May’s statement to the Commons. Photo: BBC

Theresa May fiddles while the country burns

Demonstration against Tommy Robinson and fascism, London, 9 December 2018. Photo: Counterfire

The streets belong to us: Tommy Robinson supporters outnumbered

Gilets jaunes in the streets of Paris, 8 December 2018. Photo: Feyzi Ismail

France: unsubmissive and on the streets

Gilets Jaunes in Lille on Saturday 8 December in mass solidarity gesture with the detained high school students of Mantes-la-Jolie, of whom around a hundred were put in the stress position illustrated when detained by armed police following their protest. Photo: @GiletsJaunes_FR

Yellow Vests, Act Four: where is France going?

Theresa May negotiating in Brussels. Photo: Nudge Factory

Brexit as the organic crisis of the British state