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Netpol has updated and expanded our guidance on the government’s decision to ban Palestine Action, in response to the many questions we received. This includes fundraising for prisoners, criticising the ban and differences in the way offences are dealt with in Scotland netpol.org/2025/06/26/p...
Removal of judge in Palestine Action ban legal challenge ‘deeply concerning’... so it looks like the classic British establishment stitch-up is underway. "This raises serious questions around the lack of impartiality and transparency in our judicial system" www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Removal of judge in Palestine Action ban legal challenge ‘deeply concerning’
Unusual last-minute change means panel of three will now hear case rather than Mr Justice Chamberlain
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Removal of judge in Palestine Action ban legal challenge ‘deeply concerning’... so it looks like the classic British establishment stitch-up is underway. "This raises serious questions around the lack of impartiality and transparency in our judicial system" www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
The ban on Palestine Action is inherently Islamophobic, writes one of Netpol's founders, Sam Walton, for @thecanaryuk.bsky.social www.thecanary.co/opinion/2025...
The ban on Palestine Action is inherently Islamophobic
Palestine Action supports Palestine which is mostly Muslim. Many people active in it are Muslim. This is not terrorism but it is Islamophobia
www.thecanary.co
November 25, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The ban on Palestine Action is inherently Islamophobic, writes one of Netpol's founders, Sam Walton, for @thecanaryuk.bsky.social www.thecanary.co/opinion/2025...
How #copaganda works: Brighton & Hove Police know full well that riot shields only protect riot officers, not communities (and are useful weapons against opponents, as Bristol protesters know from experience). But normalising police violence requires relentless effort, even roping in your kids
November 25, 2025 at 1:49 PM
How #copaganda works: Brighton & Hove Police know full well that riot shields only protect riot officers, not communities (and are useful weapons against opponents, as Bristol protesters know from experience). But normalising police violence requires relentless effort, even roping in your kids
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legal rights training tomorrow!
⚠️ we're having temporary tech issues with the registration form. if you've not been able to register yet, please email gbctrainings[at]protonmail.com
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We've got more know your rights trainings coming up in November - please share & come along if you want to stay safer at protests!
Link in bio to register
Link in bio to register
November 23, 2025 at 7:37 PM
legal rights training tomorrow!
⚠️ we're having temporary tech issues with the registration form. if you've not been able to register yet, please email gbctrainings[at]protonmail.com
⚠️ we're having temporary tech issues with the registration form. if you've not been able to register yet, please email gbctrainings[at]protonmail.com
The police’s decision to reveal the ethnicity and nationality of suspects in high-profile crimes has had a “devastating effect” and is helping to spread prejudice, say over 50 campaign groups including Netpol www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Police disclosing suspects’ ethnicity is fuelling prejudice, say campaigners
Fifty groups write letter calling for policy in high-profile cases in England and Wales to be scrapped
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:08 PM
The police’s decision to reveal the ethnicity and nationality of suspects in high-profile crimes has had a “devastating effect” and is helping to spread prejudice, say over 50 campaign groups including Netpol www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
The BBC here, reprinting a police press release. In reality, police officers unlawfully threatened antifascists with demands for personal details using powers under Exeter's Public Space Protection Order introduced to crack down on street drinking and "aggressive begging" www.bbc.com/news/article...
Protest groups come together 'peacefully' in Exeter city centre
The police had issued an order giving powers to require the removal of face coverings.
www.bbc.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:40 AM
The BBC here, reprinting a police press release. In reality, police officers unlawfully threatened antifascists with demands for personal details using powers under Exeter's Public Space Protection Order introduced to crack down on street drinking and "aggressive begging" www.bbc.com/news/article...
Police in the north of Ireland chose not to intervene at protests yesterday in support of Palestine Action, while the Metropolitan Police chose to make dozens of arrests at a similar demonstration in London. Both choices were political www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Palestine Action protests in NI conclude without police intervention
The PSNI stance in Belfast and Londonderry on Saturday contrasted with the Met Police in London where arrests were made at a similar protest.
www.independent.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Police in the north of Ireland chose not to intervene at protests yesterday in support of Palestine Action, while the Metropolitan Police chose to make dozens of arrests at a similar demonstration in London. Both choices were political www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Palestine Action ban could lead to people being wrongly criminalised, Home Office official says www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Palestine Action ban could lead to people being wrongly criminalised, Home Office official says
Exclusive: Member of homeland security group says anti-terrorism Prevent scheme risks being overwhelmed by Palestine advocates
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Palestine Action ban could lead to people being wrongly criminalised, Home Office official says www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
"Revised legislation would shift from conduct-based decisions (judging what individual protests and protesters are doing) to allowing police to exercise powers based on an imagined ‘saturation point’ of total disruption... If this sounds bad, that’s because it is" netpol.org/2025/11/19/s...
November 21, 2025 at 7:25 AM
"Revised legislation would shift from conduct-based decisions (judging what individual protests and protesters are doing) to allowing police to exercise powers based on an imagined ‘saturation point’ of total disruption... If this sounds bad, that’s because it is" netpol.org/2025/11/19/s...
On the one-year anniversary of being jailed for vandalising an Israeli arms factory, political prisoner Aleks Herbich writes that state repression has only strengthened her commitment to the Palestinian cause tribunemag.co.uk/2025/11/pale...
Palestine Solidarity Behind Bars
On the one-year anniversary of being jailed for vandalising an Israeli arms factory, political prisoner Aleks Herbich writes that state repression has only strengthened her commitment to the Palestini...
tribunemag.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 9:21 PM
On the one-year anniversary of being jailed for vandalising an Israeli arms factory, political prisoner Aleks Herbich writes that state repression has only strengthened her commitment to the Palestinian cause tribunemag.co.uk/2025/11/pale...
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Have you used a lawyer for a protest legal case? The list of recommended protest solicitors is based on the pooled experience of many activists over many years✊⚖️
📨 Email solicitors-list[at]netpol.org with feedback/ recommendations, to help keep the list up to date
@netpol.org @libertyhq.bsky.social
📨 Email solicitors-list[at]netpol.org with feedback/ recommendations, to help keep the list up to date
@netpol.org @libertyhq.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Have you used a lawyer for a protest legal case? The list of recommended protest solicitors is based on the pooled experience of many activists over many years✊⚖️
📨 Email solicitors-list[at]netpol.org with feedback/ recommendations, to help keep the list up to date
@netpol.org @libertyhq.bsky.social
📨 Email solicitors-list[at]netpol.org with feedback/ recommendations, to help keep the list up to date
@netpol.org @libertyhq.bsky.social
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Important thread from Women for Refugee Women @4refugeewomen.bsky.social 👇
🚨The Home Secretary said "illegal migration is dividing our country."
Let’s be clear: the only thing dividing our country is a politics devoid of humanity and compassion.
The plans announced today are a cruel political choice. It is #NotInOurName.
www.refugeewomen.co.uk/morally-and-...
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Let’s be clear: the only thing dividing our country is a politics devoid of humanity and compassion.
The plans announced today are a cruel political choice. It is #NotInOurName.
www.refugeewomen.co.uk/morally-and-...
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Women for Refugee Women : Morally and ethically bankrupt: Our response to the Government's announcement 17 November 2026
The Government has announced sweeping plans to overhaul refugee protection in the UK - some of the most hostile we have seen in recent years. We are outraged, saddened, and extremely concerned.
www.refugeewomen.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Important thread from Women for Refugee Women @4refugeewomen.bsky.social 👇
The threat to the right to protest the climate emergency comes not only from the authoritarian state, but the state's reluctance to prevent attacks on protesters by an energised extreme right, as happened on Saturday in Manchester www.manchesterfoe.org.uk/blog/greater...
Greater Manchester campaigners join millions globally to call for climate justice – as far right thugs attack child-led march
www.manchesterfoe.org.uk
November 18, 2025 at 2:22 PM
The threat to the right to protest the climate emergency comes not only from the authoritarian state, but the state's reluctance to prevent attacks on protesters by an energised extreme right, as happened on Saturday in Manchester www.manchesterfoe.org.uk/blog/greater...
The only way Shabana Mahmood will implement her vile, racist "reforms" is by importing anti-migrant ICE raids from the US into our communities, supported (more readily than in Britain than in some US states) by the police. It's time to get organised against the horrors that lie ahead
November 17, 2025 at 7:10 PM
The only way Shabana Mahmood will implement her vile, racist "reforms" is by importing anti-migrant ICE raids from the US into our communities, supported (more readily than in Britain than in some US states) by the police. It's time to get organised against the horrors that lie ahead
Expect more anti-protest laws coming in 2026: as ministers announce a new public order policing review framed around "abuse" of protest rights and free speech. Led by a former Director of Public Prosecutions, the "expert" behind the scenes is an ex senior police officer www.gov.uk/government/n...
Review of public order and hate crime legislation
Lord Macdonald to lead review of public order and hate crime legislation.
www.gov.uk
November 17, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Expect more anti-protest laws coming in 2026: as ministers announce a new public order policing review framed around "abuse" of protest rights and free speech. Led by a former Director of Public Prosecutions, the "expert" behind the scenes is an ex senior police officer www.gov.uk/government/n...
Fifteen years ago: following pressure from New Scotland Yard, the website of Fitwatch, one of the founders of Netpol, was suspended "for a minimum of twelve months" for "attempting to pervert the course of justice" www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/11/4...
Fitwatch website suspended for "attempting to pervert the course of justice" - UK Indymedia
Following contact from New Scotland Yard, the Fitwatch website and domain name (www.fitwatch.org.uk) have been suspended for a minimum of twelve months for "attempting to pervert the course of ju...
www.indymedia.org.uk
November 14, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Fifteen years ago: following pressure from New Scotland Yard, the website of Fitwatch, one of the founders of Netpol, was suspended "for a minimum of twelve months" for "attempting to pervert the course of justice" www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/11/4...
New: a talk by Kevin Blowe of Netpol for @article11trust.bsky.social:
"What if... the restriction and disruption of movements and campaign groups is baked into public order policing, and that simply surviving the current crackdown is hard enough on its own?" article11trust.org.uk/protest-righ...
"What if... the restriction and disruption of movements and campaign groups is baked into public order policing, and that simply surviving the current crackdown is hard enough on its own?" article11trust.org.uk/protest-righ...
November 13, 2025 at 7:04 AM
New: a talk by Kevin Blowe of Netpol for @article11trust.bsky.social:
"What if... the restriction and disruption of movements and campaign groups is baked into public order policing, and that simply surviving the current crackdown is hard enough on its own?" article11trust.org.uk/protest-righ...
"What if... the restriction and disruption of movements and campaign groups is baked into public order policing, and that simply surviving the current crackdown is hard enough on its own?" article11trust.org.uk/protest-righ...
All that effort, yet whilst the commission's conclusions about the harms caused by the Terrorism Act are correct, the report offers reformist changes but swerves the obvious conclusion – why don't we start to talk about abolishing the Act itself? www.middleeasteye.net/news/sweepin...
Sweeping UK terror laws risk labelling harmful behaviour as terrorism, says major report
The Independent Commission on UK Counter-Terrorism Law, Policy and Practice says counterterror powers 'risk being applied too broadly' and cites Palestine Action ban
www.middleeasteye.net
November 11, 2025 at 3:07 PM
All that effort, yet whilst the commission's conclusions about the harms caused by the Terrorism Act are correct, the report offers reformist changes but swerves the obvious conclusion – why don't we start to talk about abolishing the Act itself? www.middleeasteye.net/news/sweepin...
"Middlebrough said he was not a terrorist and should never have been imprisoned in the first place".
"I am not on the run. I am merely being sensible, refusing to be held as a prisoner of war of Israel in a British prison". electronicintifada.net/content/excl...
"I am not on the run. I am merely being sensible, refusing to be held as a prisoner of war of Israel in a British prison". electronicintifada.net/content/excl...
Exclusive: Absconded activist refuses to be “prisoner of war”
Sean Middlebrough says he and fellow Palestine Action activists were “kidnapped” by British counter-terrorism police at the point of a gun.
electronicintifada.net
November 11, 2025 at 7:46 AM
"Middlebrough said he was not a terrorist and should never have been imprisoned in the first place".
"I am not on the run. I am merely being sensible, refusing to be held as a prisoner of war of Israel in a British prison". electronicintifada.net/content/excl...
"I am not on the run. I am merely being sensible, refusing to be held as a prisoner of war of Israel in a British prison". electronicintifada.net/content/excl...
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🚨 BREAKING: MARCUS WINS DEPORTATION APPEAL
Marcus Decker, who was facing deportation after being handed a prison sentence over 2 years for climbing the QEII Bridge in 2022 with Morgan Trowland, has won his appeal against the deportation order.
Marcus Decker, who was facing deportation after being handed a prison sentence over 2 years for climbing the QEII Bridge in 2022 with Morgan Trowland, has won his appeal against the deportation order.
November 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM
🚨 BREAKING: MARCUS WINS DEPORTATION APPEAL
Marcus Decker, who was facing deportation after being handed a prison sentence over 2 years for climbing the QEII Bridge in 2022 with Morgan Trowland, has won his appeal against the deportation order.
Marcus Decker, who was facing deportation after being handed a prison sentence over 2 years for climbing the QEII Bridge in 2022 with Morgan Trowland, has won his appeal against the deportation order.
A petition has been launched by @pscupdates.bsky.social, demanding that the government withdraws its draconian new proposal to give police powers to effectively ban protests based on their ‘cumulative impact’.
Add your name today: palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk/right-to-pro...
Add your name today: palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk/right-to-pro...
PETITION: Defend the right to protest
palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk
November 10, 2025 at 11:53 AM
A petition has been launched by @pscupdates.bsky.social, demanding that the government withdraws its draconian new proposal to give police powers to effectively ban protests based on their ‘cumulative impact’.
Add your name today: palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk/right-to-pro...
Add your name today: palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk/right-to-pro...
The definition of terrorism isn't just too broad, or that it includes 'serious property damage'. It justifies surveillance, on behalf of oppressive regimes globally, of people resisting injustice. We need a proper debate about abolishing the Terrorism Act 2000 www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Terror definition too broad, Starmer to be told
New advice could undermine the Palestine Action ban
www.newstatesman.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:14 AM
The definition of terrorism isn't just too broad, or that it includes 'serious property damage'. It justifies surveillance, on behalf of oppressive regimes globally, of people resisting injustice. We need a proper debate about abolishing the Terrorism Act 2000 www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
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#OtD 10 Nov 2010 50k students and supporters marched in London against the tripling of university fees and the abolition of EMA grants. Breaking away from the official demo, 1000s of people occupied and trashed the governing Tory HQ at Millbank stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8238...
November 10, 2025 at 5:10 AM
#OtD 10 Nov 2010 50k students and supporters marched in London against the tripling of university fees and the abolition of EMA grants. Breaking away from the official demo, 1000s of people occupied and trashed the governing Tory HQ at Millbank stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8238...
A Palestine Action member held on remand for more than a year over an alleged plot to lock on and disrupt the London Stock Exchange is on the lam – failing to return to HMP Wandsworth after he was temporarily granted bail to attend his brother's wedding www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
Another inmate on the run from UK prison after ‘being freed for wedding’
Another HMP Wandsworth inmate is reportedly on the run after being granted bail for a wedding - after two prisoners were accidentally released in the past two weeks
www.mirror.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 8:50 PM
A Palestine Action member held on remand for more than a year over an alleged plot to lock on and disrupt the London Stock Exchange is on the lam – failing to return to HMP Wandsworth after he was temporarily granted bail to attend his brother's wedding www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
#SundayWisdom Don't talk to the blue-bibbed Police Liaison Officers if you're at a protest, no matter how hard they try to "chat". They're intelligence gatherers
November 9, 2025 at 4:30 PM
#SundayWisdom Don't talk to the blue-bibbed Police Liaison Officers if you're at a protest, no matter how hard they try to "chat". They're intelligence gatherers