On March 28 2017, a Titan Airways charter flight scheduled to deport 57 people from the UK to Nigeria and Ghana was blocked from leaving that night.

In this article I reflect on the limits and possibilities of the direct action myself and 14 others took to stop the plane and speculate towards the future of anti-deportation resistance in the UK.

Helen Brewer is an activist and PhD candidate at the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London.