“We are going to build a movement that is going to take control of the British state,” a softly spoken voice tells the packed basement of a community centre in central London.

Perched on creaky fold-up chairs, around 100 activists look back at Sam Holland, one of the fresh-faced organisers of Youth Demand , a group affiliated with Just Stop Oil and founded in opposition to the war in Gaza.

Most of those in attendance are in their early twenties with anarchical haircuts to match their political views. Many are also wrapped in black-and-white keffiyehs, scarves that have become a symbol of Palestinian solidarity in the West.

“Nothing short of a revolution is going to get us out of this mess,” Holland continues assuredly, clad in a button-down shirt almost entirely distinct from the patc

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