Feels like the gov straight up saying "hey, it's not like you need freedom ALL the time", is the bit history teachers highlight in the text book as a key moment... 🤷‍♂️

Sad not to be able to have the London Anarchist Bookfair in East London this year, but looks like they have a cracking venue for September 20th!

The Palestine Action ban ended the distribution of the documentary by @rainbow-collective.bsky.social , "To Kill A War Machine". One of the film's exec producers persuaded their MP to ask the Home Office a question: had it considered the broader implications of the ban for journalistic expression?

The newspaper of record for the capitalist class comes out strongly against genocide, or in more words "a vengeful attack .... to destroy the very fabric of Palestinian society".

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...

Trans people have always been at the heart of resistance and class struggle—from Stonewall to today’s fights for prison abolition, migrant justice, and mutual aid. Gender freedom is not separate from these struggles—it’s part of the same fight. freedomnews.org.uk/2025/07/28/t...

Unlike previous far-right eruptions in Britain—see for example Bradford in 2001 and Dover in 2016, today’s racist outrage is more rapidly mobilised, digitally coordinated, and openly backed by political forces whipping up nationalist tension. freedomnews.org.uk/2025/07/29/f...

The HR-ification of British politics that Starmerism represents is the apotheosis of an unthinking, uncritical, middle-class technocratic centrism which sees those making accusations as worse than those accused. freedomnews.org.uk/2025/07/25/a...

Ozzy's emotional lyrics evoke the dread of nuclear annihilation, and the betrayal and lies of political leaders. While he only had a simplistic, surface level understanding of politics, what made Ozzy appealing is his raw honesty—even in its incoherence. freedomnews.org.uk/2025/07/23/o...

Blockade targets factory boasting that it provides parts for “tanks and submarines” as well as military jets used by Israel. Protesters say the "most effective action we can take is to directly halt the activities of this factory and disrupt the supply chain”. freedomnews.org.uk/2025/07/22/s...

Assumed that if the drugs couldn't kill the prince of darkness, nothing would... At least he got one hell of a send off. youtu.be/6eeYSSel9ww?...

Excitement at an independent Labour alternative, or a Democratic-Socialist NYC mayoral candidate, is understandable. Still, history warns that office-holders promising change from within will be absorbed by the system’s self-preserving logic. freedomnews.org.uk/2025/07/09/h...

Will the ban on Palestine Action terrify enough people into silence? A piece by Netpol's Campaigns Coordinator for @freedompress.bsky.social freedomnews.org.uk/2025/07/08/w...

Left the court to find a huge demonstration outside!

We have been conditioned to accept the idea that any physical resistance is morally questionable. The irony is that the government is condemning moral support for militant action, while it actively remilitarises and sells weapons abroad. freedomnews.org.uk/2025/07/04/v...

At the Royal Courts of Justice in London for the Palestine Action hearing. Court 72 is full and the overflow court is too

Infant Annihilator Change Name to Avoid Association with Israel thehardtimes.net/music/infant...

Non-Violent Direct Action (NVDA) is not terrorism. The only protests elites will permit are A-B marches which the media ignore. The use of military language by Jarvis - 'degrade' - shows how we are living in a militarised society where the government constructs its own people as the enemy. /1

A Glastonbury chant caused a national meltdown, but the Bear’s incisive analysis reveals the real story. Don't miss this insightful dive into Britain's moral panic.

Unapologetic in tone, the programme includes interviews with members and supporters, who talk about their motivations, strategies and how State repression has ramped up since the start of Israel’s campaign of ethnic cleansing in Gaza and the West Bank. freedomnews.org.uk/2025/06/30/f...

Throwing paint into jet engines is symbolic, but the threat the State responds to is the potential for replication. If these tactics go unchecked, they might signal a broader refusal: permission-less revolt, viral sabotage, and the spread of generalised dissent. freedomnews.org.uk/2025/06/30/p...

Did’s work is timely, incisive and in many ways unique – while there are more left gaming commentators than there used to be, it’s still not even close to enjoying the interest levels of say, television or music. freedomnews.org.uk/2025/06/29/b...

With the increasing authoritarianism and militarism of our society and intensified attempts to suppress dissent, the Labour government is showing its true colours. How much will the population take before they rouse from their sleep and do something? freedomnews.org.uk/2025/06/28/n...

Currently, we understand that the House of Commons vote on proscribing Palestine Action will take place on Wednesday 2 July and the government is seeking to have the ban in place by 4 July. Here are some things you need to know netpol.org/2025/06/26/p...

Fifteen years on, one of the women who blew the lid off the Spycops scandal talks to Freedom about her political insights — and what the Undercover Policing Inquiry has revealed about the workings of the British secret state freedomnews.org.uk/2025/06/27/h...

Disabled activists argue that, given our societal context and the gross devaluing of disabled lives, the Bill as currently constructed would pressure disabled and chronically ill people to choose death for fear of being a burden on their relatives or wider society. freedomnews.org.uk/2025/06/25/a...

The mainstream press is going into overdrive to "justify" the proscription of non-violent anti-genocide group Palestine Action. We, on the other hand, will be taking possibly our last chance to talk openly about their bravery and impact on our livestream tonight. 7.30pm www.youtube.com/@freedom9763

As predicted: "Scotland Yard said 13 people were arrested. Six were detained for assaulting an emergency worker". This was planned and intentional www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/p...

"This is a government that seems all too eager to project control over protest at a time when its foreign policy is deeply unpopular. It may seem cynical to suggest that redefining visible dissent as a national security threat is a way to contain public anger" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We could take the view that the ‘working class party’ has been corrupted by power, but we shouldn‘t forget that the urge to manage the working class was baked into Labour from the very beginning. freedomnews.org.uk/2025/06/24/l...

If the proscription is not defeated by public and political pressure, it will open the way for a much broader attack on the right to protest, affecting everyone who has ever engaged in politics even indirectly. freedomnews.org.uk/2025/06/23/t...

REMINDER: if you are in central London today to show your solidarity with Palestine Action, don't forget these five key 'Know Your Rights' messages, and share them with others who may not know them #WeAreAllPalestineAction

Israel kills innocent Palestinians. Activists spray-paint a plane. Guess which the UK government calls terrorism | Sally Rooney

No-one believes that two peace activists spraying paint is “terrorism”, or that supporting them merits imprisonment, no matter which inanimate object they spray freedomnews.org.uk/2025/06/23/p...

This ban can't be applied retrospectively. You can't be targetted under the Terrorism Act for previously supporting or taking part in @palaction.bsky.social events. If it comes into force, it'll criminalise support for Palestine Action - but there are protections for people calling for it's repeal

The excuse is to “curb migration” but the real reason, clear to anyone cynical enough to be even slightly distrustful of State motivations, is entirely obvious — the police and security services want them, to enable the harassment of people who don’t fit. freedomnews.org.uk/2025/06/22/i...

Last night, as news emerged about a possible ban of Palestine Action, Netpol was supporting a screening of new independent film, "To Kill A War Machine", which sympathetically documents PA's evolution and impact. This is a film everyone needs to watch. It's premiere is 18 July tokillawarmachine.com

🚨BREAKING: We’re deeply concerned at the use of counter terrorism powers to target protest groups. This is the latest in a succession of measures taken by the UK government to clamp down on protest in the UK.

I believe this would make PA the first nonviolent group actually to be proscribed. A worrying precedent, to be sure, but given how hard The State has been going after protesters, not particularly surprising.

In a press release the group said two activists broke in using electric scooters, and targeted the planes with crowbars, and red paint sprayed from repurposed fire extinguishers “symbolising Palestinian bloodshed”. Both activists appear to have made their escape. freedomnews.org.uk/2025/06/20/p...

🚨 BREAKING UPDATE Labour has FINALLY accepted defeat in our legal challenge of anti-protest powers We won this case in court twice - under both Conservative and Labour leadership Gov must now commit to reviewing ALL arrests made under these unlawful powers www.lbc.co.uk/news/exclusi...

Whilst most of the Vagrancy Act was repealed over time, the part of the legislation has remained in force that makes it a criminal offence to sleep rough or beg in England and Wales ---arrestable with a fine of up to £1k freedomnews.org.uk/2025/06/13/s...

The problem with the US media landscape, in a nutshell, is that it has slid so far to the right that The Guardian is considered hard left. The Graun ffs. A paper that went all-in panic mode to try and destroy a mild social-democratic Labour leadership so everything could go back to machine centrism.

TUESDAY 24 JUNE at Pelican House in the East End of London, join Netpol in conversation with US civil rights lawyer Alec Karakatsanis on his new book "Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News". Tickets are free at www.eventbrite.com/e/book-event... @equalityalec.bsky.social #copaganda

“In the face of Starmer’s silence, it has been left to ordinary people to do what they can”, said the group,“It is the duty of ordinary citizens to take direct action against the institutions perpetrating the genocide in Gaza”. freedomnews.org.uk/2025/06/10/p...

"Serial rapist's treatment of his victims is once again under scrutiny". See how silly that sounds, L.A. Times? There's video of them shooting journalists in the back without warning, deliberately. The objective truth is that police in L.A. are targeting and assaulting press.

What's happening in #LosAngeles is a popular response to authoritarian brutality + repression. People are taking the streets in defense of their neighbors + neighborhoods. For this - Trump has send in the military. Read and share this report from @crimethinc.com. crimethinc.com/2025/06/08/l...

Far from a discussion about the nature of religious institutions and their role in female oppression, this is a blatant attack on the Muslim community, given a liberal lick of paint. freedomnews.org.uk/2025/06/10/n...

British people are increasingly taking direct action against militarism but in front of them parades a little troop of war enthusiasts. Their faces are stern, their phrases heavy clunks of measured doom. freedomnews.org.uk/2025/06/06/s...