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Netpol @netpol.org · 3h

For the benefit of the cops and the Telegraph, "Intifada 87" is clearly a reference to the First Intifada, where Palestinian mass protests, civil disobedience and strikes were brutally crushed by Israel.

Read a book, FFS...

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Netpol @netpol.org · 5h

On Tuesday we warned that the Home Secretary could "ban more groups as rebranded versions of Palestine Action. Legislation already makes this possible".

Now it's happening

Telegraph headline: "Police to assess if pro-Palestinian group Intifada 87 broke terror laws". Subheading: "Counter-terrorism officers investigate whether name illegally supports Hamas, which was founded in 1987"

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Netpol @netpol.org · 1d

Yesterday's narrative of 7 October as ‘another 9/11’ – "yet another day torn free from any history or context" with only two sides – seeks to demonise all Palestine solidarity as "pro-terrorist." It is critical to understanding Britain's current crackdown on protest rights netpol.org/2025/10/06/a...

Protesters against the banning of Palestine Action in Trafalgar Square, London, 4 October 2025.

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Nick Thoburn 🇵🇸 @nickthoburn.bsky.social · 13d

Desperate to do anything and everything to keep the apartheid colony’s genocide on the road, the Labour government now appeal the granted right to an appeal. Keep digging you absurd ghouls

Netpol @netpol.org · 14d

Today the Labour government is challenging the High Court ruling allowing Palestine Action's co-founder Huda Ammori to seek a judicial review of the group's ban as a 'terror organisation'.

Don't believe for a second that a new Home Secretary means a change of direction www.itv.com/watch/news/g...

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Cominsitu @cominsitu.bsky.social · 16d

Another uprising! This time in Philippines, with parallels to Nepal (corruption, nepotism, youth) but also a new component: rage at climate (mal)adaptation.

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Why Floods Are Bringing Filipino Protesters to the Streets

Corruption in flood-control projects has enraged many Filipinos, who protested in the capital and in other regions on Sunday.

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Sociologists in Solidarity with Palestinians @socispal.bsky.social · 20d

We’re a collective of sociologists in Britain calling on sociologists and sociological professional bodies to use their platforms to stand with Palestinians.
We run events, calls to action and share teaching resources, see our website socispal.wordpress.com/teaching-res... and follow us for more

Teaching Resources

Sociologists in Solidarity with Palestinians – Syllabus Version 2, October 2024 The Sociologists in Solidarity with Palestinians (SISP) collective has curated a wide-ranging Palestine reading…

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Nick Thoburn 🇵🇸 @nickthoburn.bsky.social · Sep 7

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Rob Knox @pashukanist.bsky.social · Aug 26

Today is the offical @versobooks.bsky.social release date of Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine, by Adam Hanieh, myself and @rafeefz.bsky.social.

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Resisting Erasure

Why has Palestine become a defining fault line of contemporary politics?Challenging mainstream narratives that reduce Palestine to ancient hatreds, humanitarian tragedy, or legal abstractions, Resisti...

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Cominsitu @cominsitu.bsky.social · Aug 26

Coming soon in paperback!

The Poetry of Class:
Romantic Anti-Capitalism and the Invention of the Proletariat
by Patrick Eiden-Offe

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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · Aug 21

Starmer’s Labour government says there’s no money to scrap the two-child benefit cap and lift 500,000 children out of poverty — but there is £2,000,000,000 for Elbit, Israel’s partner in genocide.

This obscene deal must be stopped.

They have Palestinian blood on their hands.

ALL SYSTEMS GO
ELBIT Systems, which as Israel's largest arms firm is a key cog in the Israeli war machine, is close to winning a £2bn contract that would make it a "strategic partner" of the Ministry of Defence, working on the training of 60,000 British soldiers every year.
Elbit Systems UK, its British arm, is bidding for the Army Collective Training Service contract. The chosen bidder will work with the MoD to transform military training "through digitalisation, simulation, a different relationship with industry, and by changing how and where the military trains"
Many defence giants put in bids, but in February the MoD reduced the bidders to two:
Elbit and Raytheon. The MoD paid the companies €2m each to develop their bids. The development period was supposed to run until mid-August, meaning the final decision is imminent.
Elbit has certainly done its best to get the inside track with the ministry, appointing two top former MoD figures to its UK board of directors:
Sir Simon Bollom (who made the move in June
- see Eye 1651) and Sir Mark Poffley.
The firm already has similar contracts with the MoD. Since 2023 it has run Project Vulcan, a €57m, ten-year contract of simulation-based training for tank crews. But the new deal would be a significant step up, both in value and in its relationship with the MoD. The Eye asked the MoD if it would be appropriate to give a company so involved in the Gaza war such a major contract, but it did not respond.
• Meanwhile, the anger across Europe over Israel's attacks on Gaza didn't prevent Serbia from agreeing a $1.64bn deal, announced last week, for Elbit to supply "a range of defence solutions" including artillery-rocket systems and attack drones.

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Nick Thoburn 🇵🇸 @nickthoburn.bsky.social · Aug 23

The obscenity that is UK imperialism and its Labour Party - close to giving a £2bn contract to Elbit, Israel’s main weapons supplier for the Gaza genocide (while proscribing those who seek to shut it down). You couldn’t make this shit up.

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UK close to giving Israel's Elbit £2bn contract to train British soldiers

Elbit, which was the primary target of Palestine Action's activism, is close to winning a contract that would allow it to train 60,000 troops per year, according to Private Eye

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Nick Thoburn 🇵🇸 @nickthoburn.bsky.social · Aug 21

Another scumbag Labour council high on its anti-Palestinian racism

Netpol @netpol.org · Aug 21

Southend council's Labour leader Dan Cowan wants Essex Police to use rarely implemented powers to impose an outright ban on a Palestine solidarity march. This would require the approval of the Home Secretary. Cowan is a member of Labour's Zionist affiliate JLM www.essexlive.news/news/essex-n...

Demands for police to block local pro-Palestine protest 'designed to harass'

To block a protest completely would require the Home Secretary's authority and approval

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Nick Thoburn 🇵🇸 @nickthoburn.bsky.social · Aug 20

Happy to have a chapter in this wonderful collection of essays “Struggles in the Concrete: Architecture and the Marxist Tradition”, thanks to Luisa Lorenza Corna and Mark Crinson

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Nick Thoburn 🇵🇸 @nickthoburn.bsky.social · Aug 10

Yvette Cooper’s determination to protect the Israeli killing machine is something to behold. Resigning is too good for her - may she never have a day’s peace for the rest of her life.

Netpol @netpol.org · Aug 10

The number of people arrested yesterday under section 13 of the Terrorism Act for protesting against the ban on Palestine Action, has now risen to 532

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Nick Thoburn 🇵🇸 @nickthoburn.bsky.social · Aug 7

Fellow academics, sign this: protestisnotterrorism.wordpress.com/scholarslett...

Scholars’ letter: We support Palestine Action in their campaign against proscription’

6 August 2025 As scholars dedicated to questions of justice and ethics we believe that Yvette Cooper’s recent proscription of Palestine Action represents an attack both on the entire pro-Palestine …

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Nick Thoburn 🇵🇸 @nickthoburn.bsky.social · Aug 8

Loads of wonderful writing in the new Variant magazine. Happy to have contributed a piece with Anthony Iles on experimental forms in communist publishing - ‘Form & Against’ variant.org.uk

variant

Variant is a magazine with the independence to be critical that addresses cultural issues in a social and political context.

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Nick Thoburn 🇵🇸 @nickthoburn.bsky.social · Aug 8

The Guardian’s shameless attempt to rehabilitate Lammy would be laughable if it wasn’t so disgusting. The man is a war criminal drenched in Palestinian blood. It won’t wash off. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Shared prayers and tears: how Lammy wooed JD Vance and the White House

Analysts say foreign secretary’s empathy and pragmatism make relationship-forming easy despite political divides

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Nick Thoburn 🇵🇸 @nickthoburn.bsky.social · Aug 7

Made my day 😁

Glenkerry Co-operative @glenkerrycoop.bsky.social · Aug 7

UK homelessness minister resigns after tenant eviction claims

Tower Hamlets MP Rushanara Ali was accused of hypocrisy after claims she evicted tenants from east London property before putting up rent by almost £700 a month
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

UK homelessness minister resigns after tenant eviction claims

Rushanara Ali was accused of hypocrisy after claims she removed tenants before rent rise of almost £700 a month

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Nick Thoburn 🇵🇸 @nickthoburn.bsky.social · Aug 7

Fellow academics, sign this: protestisnotterrorism.wordpress.com/scholarslett...

Scholars’ letter: We support Palestine Action in their campaign against proscription’

6 August 2025 As scholars dedicated to questions of justice and ethics we believe that Yvette Cooper’s recent proscription of Palestine Action represents an attack both on the entire pro-Palestine …

protestisnotterrorism.wordpress.com

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Tokyo Sexwhale @tokyosexwhale.bsky.social · Aug 5

Just sayin’

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Netpol @netpol.org · Aug 5

This is 100% world-class bullshit

Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · Aug 5

Yvette Cooper is asked about her decision to ban Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation and she claims she received detailed security assessments & advice & is in receipt of disturbing information that the rest of us don't know about

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Global Sociologists for Palestine (GS4P) @gs4p.bsky.social · Jun 30

We are GS4P, Join us! www.gs4p.org

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Global Sociologists for Palestine (GS4P) @gs4p.bsky.social · Jul 30

[1/5] Please take a look at our most recent statement on the successful BDS mobilization at the 5th International Sociological Association (ISA) Forum of Sociology in Rabat earlier this month:

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Global Sociologists for Palestine (GS4P) @gs4p.bsky.social · Jul 30

[5/5] Against their mischaracterizations, which only serve for the continuation of the genocide and settler colonialism, please support our petition (above) and other efforts such as this one:

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Global Sociologists for Palestine (GS4P) @gs4p.bsky.social · Jul 30

[2/5] Also, if you have not already, please add your name to our petition in support of ISA's suspension of the Israeli Sociological Society. Your support is crucial to pressure National Sociological Associations in ISA for the continuation of the suspension. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Statement from Sociologists in Support of the ISA's Suspension of the Israeli Sociological Society

Statement from Sociologists in Support of the ISA's Suspension of the Israeli Sociological Society As sociologists deeply committed to the principles of justice, anti-colonialism, and the defense of l...

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