... denounced as criminals in their time. If they were active now, using the same tactics, would they too be labelled “terrorists”?

Who were the real terrorists here, and who were the true heroes?

@palaction.bsky.social act with deep love and humanity, and solidarity as clear as pure water...

... of the Proscription debate, before voting for or abstaining on banning Palestine Action.

The Suffragettes ran a 2-year long arson & bombing campaign. They stormed the House of Commons, underwent hunger strikes; one even martyred herself. Many of the suffragettes were arrested, surveilled...

... The irony too, that @london.gov.uk Overground has co-opted the Suffragettes' struggle by naming one of their lines - which runs through Lewisham - after the , is not lost on us. Nor are the female Labour MPs posing in sashes celebrating 97 years of women’s right to vote on the very day...

... In 2023, protesters turned out month after month to defend Honor Oak Pub’s Drag Storytime and trans communities from neo- Nazi groups linked to
extreme right Christian fundamentalists.

We again mobilised last summer when fascists were threatening and attacking migrant & refugee communities...

... to resist state violence, is exactly what he now seeks to suppress.

The right to protest is fundamental in any democracy. Lewisham has a proud and radical history of protest. In 1977, we stood together to oppose fascism during the Battle of Lewisham, confronting & stopping the National Front...

... who once defended anti-war protesters when they broke into RAF Fairford to sabotage US bombers, stating that they were justified in their illegal actions on the basis of preventing a greater crime – the Iraq war. The principle behind that defence, that ordinary people have a right, even duty...

... Labelling such action as “terrorism” is a deliberate attempt to silence dissent and distract from the moral and legal questions around Britain’s support for the ongoing occupation of Palestine.

We are particularly disturbed by the rank hypocrisy of Labour Party leader Keir Starmer...

... Altogether this is a sickening intensification of the UK Government's active complicity in the genocide of the Palestinian people.

Palestine Action engages in nonviolent direct action to expose and disrupt the UK’s complicity in Israeli apartheid and the arms trade that sustains it...

Not only is this a dangerous escalation in the ongoing erosion of civil liberties and the criminalisation of political dissent in the UK, but there is evidence pointing to alleged interference from pro-Israel groups lobbying for the ban...

Thank you for shining a light on the awful situation in Gaza but also being brave enough tk challenge our complicity. It's a messed up world where ppl can't see who the oppressors and oppressed are anymore