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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...
#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
📣 The first six defendants of the Filton24 face trial from 17th November
📍 Woolwich Crown Court, London SE28 0EY
📆 First Day 17th November 2025 (scheduled for 10 weeks)
⏱️ 9.30am - 4.30pm
📍 Woolwich Crown Court, London SE28 0EY
📆 First Day 17th November 2025 (scheduled for 10 weeks)
⏱️ 9.30am - 4.30pm
November 4, 2025 at 3:57 PM
📣 The first six defendants of the Filton24 face trial from 17th November
📍 Woolwich Crown Court, London SE28 0EY
📆 First Day 17th November 2025 (scheduled for 10 weeks)
⏱️ 9.30am - 4.30pm
📍 Woolwich Crown Court, London SE28 0EY
📆 First Day 17th November 2025 (scheduled for 10 weeks)
⏱️ 9.30am - 4.30pm
📣 Court Support Callout the Southampton Leonardo 3
📍 Southampton Crown Court, SO15 2XQ
📆 First Day 10th November 2025 (scheduled for 2 weeks)
⏱️ 10am each day
📍 Southampton Crown Court, SO15 2XQ
📆 First Day 10th November 2025 (scheduled for 2 weeks)
⏱️ 10am each day
November 4, 2025 at 3:57 PM
📣 Court Support Callout the Southampton Leonardo 3
📍 Southampton Crown Court, SO15 2XQ
📆 First Day 10th November 2025 (scheduled for 2 weeks)
⏱️ 10am each day
📍 Southampton Crown Court, SO15 2XQ
📆 First Day 10th November 2025 (scheduled for 2 weeks)
⏱️ 10am each day
Protest bans are a ‘display of state power’ - should we celebrate the police banning protests, when they are likely to weaponise their unprecedented powers against anti-racists in the future?
netpol.org/2025/10/30/p...
netpol.org/2025/10/30/p...
October 30, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Protest bans are a ‘display of state power’ - should we celebrate the police banning protests, when they are likely to weaponise their unprecedented powers against anti-racists in the future?
netpol.org/2025/10/30/p...
netpol.org/2025/10/30/p...
"Campaigners seldom win their demands overnight with just one demonstration and no other tactics. Why? Because government and corporate interests do not respond to polite pressure. Power concedes nothing without a fight" netpol.org/2025/10/28/r...
October 29, 2025 at 7:02 AM
"Campaigners seldom win their demands overnight with just one demonstration and no other tactics. Why? Because government and corporate interests do not respond to polite pressure. Power concedes nothing without a fight" netpol.org/2025/10/28/r...
Resist new laws restricting ‘cumulative protests’
"if the government wants to avoid repeated protest marches, maybe the answer is to look at its cumulative support for injustice, its cumulative destruction of the environment and its cumulative complicity in genocide" netpol.org/2025/10/28/r...
"if the government wants to avoid repeated protest marches, maybe the answer is to look at its cumulative support for injustice, its cumulative destruction of the environment and its cumulative complicity in genocide" netpol.org/2025/10/28/r...
October 28, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Resist new laws restricting ‘cumulative protests’
"if the government wants to avoid repeated protest marches, maybe the answer is to look at its cumulative support for injustice, its cumulative destruction of the environment and its cumulative complicity in genocide" netpol.org/2025/10/28/r...
"if the government wants to avoid repeated protest marches, maybe the answer is to look at its cumulative support for injustice, its cumulative destruction of the environment and its cumulative complicity in genocide" netpol.org/2025/10/28/r...
At today's United Families and Friends Campaign rally opposite Downing Street. Jean Charles de Menezses' cousin Patricia is speaking – still campaigning for other families 20 years after Jean was assassinated by the Metropolitan Police
October 25, 2025 at 12:39 PM
At today's United Families and Friends Campaign rally opposite Downing Street. Jean Charles de Menezses' cousin Patricia is speaking – still campaigning for other families 20 years after Jean was assassinated by the Metropolitan Police
Front page of this morning's 'The National'.
"Extreme Violence – Police Scotland used excessive restrictions to protect the interests of arms firms during Palestine protests, says new report".
The SCALP/Netpol report launches this evening in Glasgow
"Extreme Violence – Police Scotland used excessive restrictions to protect the interests of arms firms during Palestine protests, says new report".
The SCALP/Netpol report launches this evening in Glasgow
October 23, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Front page of this morning's 'The National'.
"Extreme Violence – Police Scotland used excessive restrictions to protect the interests of arms firms during Palestine protests, says new report".
The SCALP/Netpol report launches this evening in Glasgow
"Extreme Violence – Police Scotland used excessive restrictions to protect the interests of arms firms during Palestine protests, says new report".
The SCALP/Netpol report launches this evening in Glasgow
Good article that at least acknowledges that the "increasingly sinister securitisation of football fans at matches" is a problem – and includes this dig at Home Office bullshit that made us laugh www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
October 21, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Good article that at least acknowledges that the "increasingly sinister securitisation of football fans at matches" is a problem – and includes this dig at Home Office bullshit that made us laugh www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
As the political establishment tries to focus attention on whether banning hooligans is good or bad, Birmingham remains focused on the bigger picture – why is Israel allowed to remain in international football while it commits genocide?
🗓️ November 6th
🕕 6pm
📍Holte End entrance on Trinity Road
🗓️ November 6th
🕕 6pm
📍Holte End entrance on Trinity Road
October 20, 2025 at 7:20 AM
As the political establishment tries to focus attention on whether banning hooligans is good or bad, Birmingham remains focused on the bigger picture – why is Israel allowed to remain in international football while it commits genocide?
🗓️ November 6th
🕕 6pm
📍Holte End entrance on Trinity Road
🗓️ November 6th
🕕 6pm
📍Holte End entrance on Trinity Road
Some British government ministers don't want anyone to talk about genocide in Gaza or Britain's complicity in it www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
October 14, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Some British government ministers don't want anyone to talk about genocide in Gaza or Britain's complicity in it www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
Date for your diary: United Families and Friends Campaign Annual Remembrance Procession
🗓️ Saturday 25 October
📍 Trafalgar Square,
🕕 12 noon
🗓️ Saturday 25 October
📍 Trafalgar Square,
🕕 12 noon
October 9, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Date for your diary: United Families and Friends Campaign Annual Remembrance Procession
🗓️ Saturday 25 October
📍 Trafalgar Square,
🕕 12 noon
🗓️ Saturday 25 October
📍 Trafalgar Square,
🕕 12 noon
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
Now it's happening
October 9, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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
Now it's happening
A guest post on the Netpol website by Medb McDaid: news that the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has been involved in arrests at a London protest should be a matter of public concern. The PSNI has no business in Ireland, let alone Britain netpol.org/2025/10/08/t...
October 8, 2025 at 12:07 PM
A guest post on the Netpol website by Medb McDaid: news that the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has been involved in arrests at a London protest should be a matter of public concern. The PSNI has no business in Ireland, let alone Britain netpol.org/2025/10/08/t...
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...
October 8, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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...
Experimenting with a t-shirt design in aid of the recently revived 'debate' about what is, or isn't, "Britishness".
October 7, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Experimenting with a t-shirt design in aid of the recently revived 'debate' about what is, or isn't, "Britishness".
Netpol's 'State of Protest' report for 2024 launched with a stark title: ‘This is Repression’. On the second anniversary of the continuing genocide in Gaza, it is hard to know what we will call our assessment of protest rights for 2025.
Perhaps ‘An End to Our Illusions’? netpol.org/2025/10/06/a...
Perhaps ‘An End to Our Illusions’? netpol.org/2025/10/06/a...
October 7, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Netpol's 'State of Protest' report for 2024 launched with a stark title: ‘This is Repression’. On the second anniversary of the continuing genocide in Gaza, it is hard to know what we will call our assessment of protest rights for 2025.
Perhaps ‘An End to Our Illusions’? netpol.org/2025/10/06/a...
Perhaps ‘An End to Our Illusions’? netpol.org/2025/10/06/a...
VICTORY: citing "lack of evidence", prosecutors have dropped the trial against the Drax 15. They never had a case, but they kept defendants waiting for a year to somehow justify an astonishing £3 million police operation. This is yet another example of the repression of protest rights in Britain
September 23, 2025 at 3:37 PM
VICTORY: citing "lack of evidence", prosecutors have dropped the trial against the Drax 15. They never had a case, but they kept defendants waiting for a year to somehow justify an astonishing £3 million police operation. This is yet another example of the repression of protest rights in Britain
'Sex Work: It's just a job'.
Netpol is co-host for a screening of a new film from the US on decriminalising sex work, with a Q&A including @alexvitale.bsky.social and sex worker allies.
🗓️ Friday 3 October
📍 Keyworth Arts and Media Centre
🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/film-scree...
Netpol is co-host for a screening of a new film from the US on decriminalising sex work, with a Q&A including @alexvitale.bsky.social and sex worker allies.
🗓️ Friday 3 October
📍 Keyworth Arts and Media Centre
🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/film-scree...
September 22, 2025 at 10:34 AM
'Sex Work: It's just a job'.
Netpol is co-host for a screening of a new film from the US on decriminalising sex work, with a Q&A including @alexvitale.bsky.social and sex worker allies.
🗓️ Friday 3 October
📍 Keyworth Arts and Media Centre
🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/film-scree...
Netpol is co-host for a screening of a new film from the US on decriminalising sex work, with a Q&A including @alexvitale.bsky.social and sex worker allies.
🗓️ Friday 3 October
📍 Keyworth Arts and Media Centre
🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/film-scree...
Read our report from September 2024 on the extraordinary police operation that prevented a peaceful protest camp from going ahead near the Drax power station in North Yorkshire netpol.org/2024/09/11/t...
September 19, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Read our report from September 2024 on the extraordinary police operation that prevented a peaceful protest camp from going ahead near the Drax power station in North Yorkshire netpol.org/2024/09/11/t...
Solidarity with the Drax 15, who will begin their trial at Leeds Magistrate Court on Monday, accused of ‘going equipped to lock on’ after they were pre-emptively arrested last summer in a police operation that shut down a protest camp.
📍 Magistrates Court, 1 Westgate, Leeds LS1 3BE
📅 22 Sept, 09.00
📍 Magistrates Court, 1 Westgate, Leeds LS1 3BE
📅 22 Sept, 09.00
September 19, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Solidarity with the Drax 15, who will begin their trial at Leeds Magistrate Court on Monday, accused of ‘going equipped to lock on’ after they were pre-emptively arrested last summer in a police operation that shut down a protest camp.
📍 Magistrates Court, 1 Westgate, Leeds LS1 3BE
📅 22 Sept, 09.00
📍 Magistrates Court, 1 Westgate, Leeds LS1 3BE
📅 22 Sept, 09.00
LONDON ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR: this Saturday, Netpol is joining the Filton 24 Campaign and Dr Asim Qureshi from Cage International to talk about "Building Solidarity against State Repression - protest, direct action and prisoner support". Room 2 at 14.15 @freedompress.bsky.social
September 18, 2025 at 6:58 AM
LONDON ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR: this Saturday, Netpol is joining the Filton 24 Campaign and Dr Asim Qureshi from Cage International to talk about "Building Solidarity against State Repression - protest, direct action and prisoner support". Room 2 at 14.15 @freedompress.bsky.social
Lammy's own complicity in the genocide in Gaza hangs heavily over the new justice secretary insisting on a duty to act with "honesty and integrity at all times" or face criminal prosecution. He knows the guilty, like him, will escape justice
September 16, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Lammy's own complicity in the genocide in Gaza hangs heavily over the new justice secretary insisting on a duty to act with "honesty and integrity at all times" or face criminal prosecution. He knows the guilty, like him, will escape justice