Vinil Kumar is the National Union of Students (NUS) anti-racism officer for 2020 and a member of Socialist Alternative in Sydney.

09.23.2020

Vinil Kumar

Democratic Rights Aren’t Willingly Given — They Have to Be Fought For

New South Wales is allowing stadiums to seat up to 10,000 fans right now, but the Liberal state government has used COVID-19 as a pretext to ban all public protests. Vinil Kumar, who faced the NSW Supreme Court on this issue, spoke with Jacobin about the battle to protect our democratic rights amid lockdown.