Tag: civil-liberties
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Defend Palestine Action from proscription, defend the right to protest against war and genocide This blog hosts the text of an open letter which has been signed by more than 1500 individuals in protest at the proscription of Palestine Action…
