Protest is not terrorism
Open letter on the proscription of Palestine Action – Defend the right to protest against war and genocide
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- Glasgow TUC statement responds to the High Court ruling on the proscription of Palestine Action
- Statement: The High Court’s decision that proscription is unlawful reflects the pressure from the campaign of mass defiance
- Global scholars declare support for Palestine prisoners and solidarity with Greta Thunberg
- Open letter from educators: solidarity with the hunger strikes, stop police censorship and state repression
- No more arrests, no more terrorism charges for peaceful protest: open letter (UPDATED)
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13 February 2026 Glasgow TUC welcomes the striking down of the ban on Palestine Action and today’s decision of the Judicial Review to proscribe the protest group as a terrorist organisation as unlawful. We said it at the time and have maintained ever since: protest is not terrorism. The exercise of our rights to freedom…
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The decision by the High Court to quash the Home Secretary’s proscription of Palestine Action must have immediate consequences for those who sought to enforce it. Thousands of people have been arrested and dozens had their homes raided and faced onerous bail conditions as a result of Yvette Cooper’s unlawful action. Dozens of prisoners detained…
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Dozens of distinguished scholars and authors from around the world have made a declaration in solidarity with prisoners in the UK whose long detention on remand on charges relating to activism for Palestine has sparked criticism from human rights organisations and UN experts. They include Naomi Klein, Angela Davis and Judith Butler alongside global scholars…
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Dozens of members of the national executive committees of the UK’s education unions NEU, UCU and EIS representing over 600,000 educators in schools, further education and universities are among 800 educators and trade unionists who have signed an open letter calling on the government to protect the lives of hunger-striking prisoners who have been jailed…
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To: Chief Constables, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, Crown Prosecution Service As trade unionists and activists in the Palestine solidarity movement and beyond, we stand opposed to genocide and in solidarity with the campaign to reverse the proscription of Palestine Action as part of a broader campaign to defend the right to protest. We recognise…
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Around 1000 people defied calls from Keir Starmer and the Met Police for the suspension of the Defend our Juries protest against the proscription of Palestine Action on Saturday 4 October. Trade unionists from round the country joined hundreds taking part in the witness circle around the DoJ protest in solidarity, having issued a statement…
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As the organisers of the trade union delegation to the Witness Circle at the Lift the Ban action on 4 October, we believe that Defend our Juries is right to highlight the contradictions in the call from the Metropolitan Police and the Home Secretary for the postponement of the protest. It is the politically-motivated policy…
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Delegates at the annual congress of the TUC, representing 5.6 million workers, voted unanimously to demand the repeal of the proscription of Palestine Action. Congress also condemned the “serious escalation in authoritarianism” embodied in the Labour government’s attack on protest rights through restrictions on the national marches for Palestine and “the home secretary’s abuse of…
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Eyewitnesses from the “Witness Circle” of civil society organisations at the “Lift the Ban” protest in Parliament Square have described the police as “completely overwhelmed” by the sheer numbers of people holding signs with the words “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action” as a call for defiance of the proscription of the direct action…
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At least 1500 people have joined a mass action of defiance to the proscription of Palestine Action and the British government’s complicity in genocide in Gaza. A delegation of trade unionists and signatories to the Protest is not Terrorism open letter is in Parliament Square to witness and condemn the repressive consequences of the ban…
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