🚨Palestine Coalition statement on the trial of Ben Jamal and Chris Nineham.

The Tactical Aid Unit (riot cops) in Manchester this weekend often wore no identifying epaulettes The GMP's own Uniform Policy and Dress Standards states that: "All officers and staff in uniform are required to wear epaulettes clearly showing their collar number on both shoulders at all times."

We have heard many reports of violent policing in Manchester on Saturday. Police kettled demonstrators to ensure the far-right march could go ahead. There will be a callout for witnesses for various incidents later this week. please share this!

Currently in court 9 with comrades from Activist Court Aid Brigade (ACAB) for the start of the trial

The trial of Ben Jamal and Chris Nineham, who face charges of breaching (as organisers) restrictions imposed by the police on a Palestine Coalition assembly back in January 2025, begins today in court 9 at Westminster Magistrates Court. The trial starts at 10.00 – there's a rally outside from 09.00

Birmingham City Council has been granted a High Court injunction against "persons unknown" banning protests in support of the year-long Unite bin strike outside five waste depots www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

"This is political policing. And if police are the arbiters of where you can march, when you can march, how often you can march, which is in the pipeline — then you need state permission to demonstrate" morningstaronline.co.uk/article/righ...

How to interfere with jury trials, and lose – the path to a jury refusing to convict six Palestine Action activists who smashed up an Israeli weapons factory in Bristol, overcoming a government-led smear campaign and arms lobby pressure thebristolcable.org/2026/02/yvet...

The Filton 24, who broke into an Elbit factory in 2024, have all been acquitted of the most serious charge of aggravated burglary. Several of them have already been released on bail - after the UK government ignored their hunger strike demanding bail👇 www.declassifieduk.org/how-palestin...

Hey @bevcraig.bsky.social, Just seen your "A message to our communities". We're concerned that you have said that "This means that protests are allowed on the condition they engage fully with the police." The police will use this to harass and arrest anti-fascists protesting the racists.

This Saturday, Manchester will see Britain First’s racist March for Remigration. Greater Manchester Police have imposed a Section 35 ‘dispersal order’ using the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014. This power should not be used to target protesters. But guess what...

The Home Office just released data on police use of protest restrictions, specifically Sections 12 & 14 of the Public Order Act 1986. These powers allow police to place restrictions on protests (restricting the location, numbers or duration) and then arrest people if they break these conditions.

This is TOMORROW!

Latest Home Office data shows that in 2024-25, there were 132 restrictions imposed on static assemblies in England and Wales. In almost one third of these protests – all in London – the Metropolitan Police was unable to explain WHY it decided to restrict them netpol.org/2026/02/12/l...

Latest Home Office data shows that in 2024-25, there were 162 restrictions imposed on processions and assemblies. 100% of restrictions on marches across England & Wales - all of them - were by the Metropolitan Police, mostly on Palestine solidarity demonstrations netpol.org/2026/02/12/l...

🚨BREAKING NEWS! Medics that broke windows at JP Morgan HQ to expose fossil fuel financing links to climate devastation found NOT GUILTY today by jurors. The climate crisis is a health crisis and health professionals have a duty to act when lives are at risk. Read more here: healthforxr.com

With the latest Home Office data showing police persistently acting in bad faith in the way they impose restrictions on protests, especially in London, are there still benefits in protest organisers talking to them at all? Why negotiate if it makes protesters less safe? netpol.org/2026/02/12/p...

Latest Home Office data shows that in 2024-25, there were 162 restrictions on processions and assemblies imposed across England & Wales. Rather than simply publish a full dataset, the department released information that's hard to navigate – so we have tried to untangle it netpol.org/2026/02/12/l...

Palestine Action: A victory we shouldn’t have needed freedomnews.org.uk/2026/02/14/p...

"The Palestine Action ruling vindicates the courageous – and shames the complicit" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Although Sky News apparently couldn't help itself, we respectfully suggest just ignoring the faded "extremism advisor" Lord Walney, in his desperate search for relevance. His comments on the Palestine Action judgment today were, as ever, walnuts. Absolutely walnuts

The judgment in today's victory by Huda Ammori is available here www.judiciary.uk/judgments/hu...

The Met is keeping receipts for "enforcement at a later date" in case the Home Office's appeal succeeds.

A reminder that as Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper had so little confidence in pushing a ban on Palestine Action through parliament in July 2025 that she bundled it together with the neo-Nazi "Maniacs Murder Cult" and then refused MPs the right to vote on each separately. The state must drop the ban

A Met police statement says officers will continue to document support for Palestine Action but rather than make arrests, will "focus on gathering evidence of those offences and the people involved... for enforcement at a later date". The state must drop the ban news.met.police.uk/news/met-res...

Leaving the court now, the government lawyers look... pissed

The state must now back down and end the ban on Palestine Action. The continuing proscription is an abuse of freedom of expression and assembly

Breaking: on two counts, the High Court has ruled that the Labour government's proscription of the campaign group Palestine Action was unlawful – a win for its co-founder Huda Ammori, who sought a judicial review of the ban

Inside Court 4 now at the Royal Courts of Justice in London for the Palestine Action ban judicial review hearing

🚨🚨🚨 Even if Huda Ammori is successful in the judicial review today, Palestine Action will probably still be banned! Until PA are formally unproscribed the police can still go after you. If you don't want to deliberately seek arrest, here's our guidance: netpol.org/2025/06/26/p...

This free workshop covers: 👮 how to talk or not talk with police if you are approached ⛔ your rights when it comes to things like stop & search 👀 how to identify who’s who within the policing team at protests 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 what to expect & how to support yourself & each others 1/2

If the PM reckons Jim Ratcliffe should apologise for spreading this exact same lie, should the Home Office apologise too, or? 🤨

The judgment in Huda Ammori v the Home Secretary – on the government's proscription of Palestine Action – will be handed down tomorrow (Friday 13 February) at the Royal Courts of Justice (Court 4) at 10.00.

The head of the Crown Prosecution Service, Stephen Parkinson, wants a ban on protests outside of court ahead of a retrial of Palestine Action activists, claiming demonstrators are "a threat to the administration of justice" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Metropolitan Police had a ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy on undercover officers tricking women into sexual relationships, says a spycop who received letters praising his intelligence gathering on protesters from former Labour Home secretary Jack Straw www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Reminder: the second free webinar hosted by Netpol with Digital Self Defence Collective, on resisting police surveillance and far right threats, takes place next Thursday (19 February). Register now

“The admission of lying to the public in order to justify banning Palestine Action shows how baseless the proscription truly is”. Claims about links between the protest group and Iran appear to have originated from pro-Israel lobbyists novaramedia.com/2026/02/09/g...

Animal rights protesters targeted by a Labour government…again blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

New statement from the Palestine Coalition welcoming the outcome of the Filton case. The real criminals aren't those protesting against Israel's genocide, it is those who are arming and supporting it who should be facing trial.

The barristers' defence speeches in the Filton trial are well worth a read - and coverage by @realmediapress.bsky.social has been brilliant realmedia.press/the-filton-t...

Trying to understand the threats your group faces from police, far right groups and others and make effective plans to protect yourselves, without getting paranoid? Find out more at our free webinar with the Digital Self Defence Collective on 19 February digitalselfdefence.net/events/threa...

We are currently busy crunching the numbers in today's Home Office data on the use of protest related police powers, which are of course unhelpful and confusing. However it remains true that imposing restrictions on marches is fundamentally a London problem www.gov.uk/government/s...

👉NEW VIDEO -- Jury frees Palestine activists who smashed Israeli arms factory Six protesters have been found not guilty of aggravated burglary at an Elbit weapons site. We were at Woolwich Crown Court where family and friends celebrated the result👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0vl...

Police spied on anti-arms activists to protect the interests of the state, inquiry hears morningstaronline.co.uk/article/poli...

Release the remaining defendants held on remand

Six Palestine Action activists were cleared today of aggravated burglary over a protest at an Israeli weapons firm in 2024. The jury also cleared three defendants of violent disorder and failed to reach a verdict on a GBH charge – charges that are the basis of the group's labelling as "terrorists"

Solidarity with Angie Zelter. Peaceful protesters should not be criminalised for calling out genocide!

#CommunitiesForJustice #SaveTheDate #WeCopWatch #EarlyBirds www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/communitie...

🚨 Defend the Right to Protest 🚨 🛑 Public meeting 🗓 Thursday 12 February ⏰ 7pm 📍 SOAS (DLT) Speakers include actor Juliet Stevenson, Yanis Varoufakis, Chris Nineham, Ben Jamal and Katy Watts from Liberty. Free tickets via events page [link in bio] #defendtherighttoprotest #dropthecharges

Unlike Palestine Action protesters, you know who'll never face 18 months or more on remand awaiting trial in one of Britain's crumbling prisons? Wes Streeting's mentor Peter Mandelson