Menelik Lee

1 month ago

Picket line magic: How a Deliveroo blockade in Swiss Cottage transformed the way I think about unions

What does attending a protest do to our minds and bodies? Are activist “in-groups” scary or transformative? Menelik Lee explores the magic of direct action.

3 months ago

Menelik Lee: Thirty years after the Tiananmen Square massacre, London’s student-worker coalitions show why cross-class solidarity still terrifies autocrats

London universities behave like authoritarian tyrants when confronted over outsourcing. But, unlike the dictators of communist China, our vice chancellors don’t have tanks to hide behind.