Every week, Watch the State brings you a comprehensive guide to communities in resistance, and the state’s violent backlash.
Across continents, a generation of young people is rising to confront state failure, inequality, and violence. Youth-led movements are uniting around shared grievances: corruption, authoritarianism, and dispossession. Their demands reflect a moral reckoning with the collapse of governance and the everyday violence of repression.
Yet, as these movements grow, so does the machinery of state control. Governments across have met protest with censorship, militarised policing, and criminalisation. The response reveals a deep anxiety of power. Still, the persistence of protest is a refusal to surrender to silence.
