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Netpol @netpol.org · 19d
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Keir Starmer has reportedly scrapped plans for a compulsory digital identity scheme for workers following opposition to the idea from across the political divide

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Compulsory digital ID plan axed as Labour performs another U-turn, reports say
New identity verification scheme aimed at deterring illegal migration is reportedly to become optional
www.independent.co.uk
January 13, 2026 at 8:13 PM
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ICYMI: our statement in solidarity with legal observers in the United States and with the family of Renee Nicole Good
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Netpol stands in solidarity with US Legal Observers facing brutal repression from ICE agents and police.

We send our love & rage to the family & comrades of Renée Nicole Good, executed on the street as she & her wife sought to bear witness to the racist violence inflicted in their home city.
The Network for Police Monitoring stands in solidarity with Legal Observers in Minneapolis facing brutal violence from police and border forces. We send our love and rage to the family and comrades of Renée Nicole Good, executed on the street as she and her wife Becca Good sought to bear witness to the racist violence inflicted on marginalised and migrant people in their home city: the raids, disappearances and executions currently taking place across the United States. Legal Observing is a simple act of solidarity. Legal Observers underpin efforts to resist state repression, bearing witness to police abuse of power so that violence is recorded and redress is possible. In Britain that abuse of power is purposeful and targeted at marginalised, migrant and racialised people. Here, as in the US, police and border enforcers detain, deport, injure and kill with impunity. The British state, like others across the Global North, has blood on its own hands for the inhumane border regimes and hostile environment policies which continue to result in preventable deaths. And here, as in the US, Legal Observers are subject to worsening violence and restraint. This is not exceptional to the US, but an escalating global system of border and police brutality. Netpol stands with all Legal Observers, Copwatchers, anti-raids and migrant solidarity organisers who are committed to a just and equitable world. We stand, always, with those killed, injured, detained and deported by police and border forces, and with their families. We call on all liberation movements to continue to support and centre those most at risk of state violence: Black, brown and racialised people, migrant people, Muslim people, trans and disabled people. We recognise that intensification of border violence is only one tactic in a colonial project of control, and will continue our work accordingly. We believe in a future free of police violence, with freedom of movement and adequate resources available to all.
January 13, 2026 at 2:11 AM
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More than 40 civil society groups (including Netpol) have joined forces to resist yet another proposed expansion by the government of police powers in England and Wales www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Civil society groups condemn ‘dangerous’ plans for more anti-protest powers
Dozens including TUC join force to oppose ‘wide-ranging’ move to increase police powers in England and Wales
www.theguardian.com
January 12, 2026 at 10:27 AM
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bashback.bsky.social
Desperate for revenge - and with nothing to go on - the FSU has declared an injunction and used its media connections to make libellous accusations, putting an innocent trans person in danger while interfering with an ongoing legal process.

So much for "free speech".

xoxo BASH BACK
January 11, 2026 at 1:22 PM
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Yes it's hypocrisy, but a reminder that for ministers, rights are neither fundamental nor universal, they're treated as weapons used strategically against opponents. In any event, governments and the state don't protect people's rights to protest - people do though, by turning up and exercising them
saulstaniforth.bsky.social Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 2d
Govt minister Heidi Alexander on #trevorphillips this morning urging the Iranian govt to protect peoples right to peacefully protest
January 11, 2026 at 12:54 PM
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Netpol stands in solidarity with US Legal Observers facing brutal repression from ICE agents and police.

We send our love & rage to the family & comrades of Renée Nicole Good, executed on the street as she & her wife sought to bear witness to the racist violence inflicted in their home city.
The Network for Police Monitoring stands in solidarity with Legal Observers in Minneapolis facing brutal violence from police and border forces. We send our love and rage to the family and comrades of Renée Nicole Good, executed on the street as she and her wife Becca Good sought to bear witness to the racist violence inflicted on marginalised and migrant people in their home city: the raids, disappearances and executions currently taking place across the United States. Legal Observing is a simple act of solidarity. Legal Observers underpin efforts to resist state repression, bearing witness to police abuse of power so that violence is recorded and redress is possible. In Britain that abuse of power is purposeful and targeted at marginalised, migrant and racialised people. Here, as in the US, police and border enforcers detain, deport, injure and kill with impunity. The British state, like others across the Global North, has blood on its own hands for the inhumane border regimes and hostile environment policies which continue to result in preventable deaths. And here, as in the US, Legal Observers are subject to worsening violence and restraint. This is not exceptional to the US, but an escalating global system of border and police brutality. Netpol stands with all Legal Observers, Copwatchers, anti-raids and migrant solidarity organisers who are committed to a just and equitable world. We stand, always, with those killed, injured, detained and deported by police and border forces, and with their families. We call on all liberation movements to continue to support and centre those most at risk of state violence: Black, brown and racialised people, migrant people, Muslim people, trans and disabled people. We recognise that intensification of border violence is only one tactic in a colonial project of control, and will continue our work accordingly. We believe in a future free of police violence, with freedom of movement and adequate resources available to all.
January 9, 2026 at 6:27 PM
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Two women face trial in May over a protest that placed body bags outside David Lammy's home. The BBC report fails to mention these were child sized and clearly referred to the government's indifference to the massacre of children in Gaza. This is "harassment" apparently www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Trial date over protest outside David Lammy's home - BBC News
Two women are next set to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court in May for a two-day trial.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 9, 2026 at 12:57 PM
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Palestine solidarity campaigner and political prisoner Heba Muraisi has reached 67 days on hunger strike without food. Bobby Sands died on day 66 during the Irish republican prisoners' 1981 hunger strike. The British government must act now to offer a way to stop opponents of genocide from dying
January 9, 2026 at 3:55 AM
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It already exists www.constructionnews.co.uk/legal/constr...
Construction immigration raids and arrests hit record levels | Construction News
The number of immigration arrests on UK construction premises during the first nine months of 2025 was almost three times the 2024 figure and the highest
www.constructionnews.co.uk
January 9, 2026 at 2:15 AM
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Amongst everything else, I'm thinking about how eager the UK press were initially to swallow the Met's lie that Jean Charles de Menezes was a terrorist after they executed him in a tube station
January 8, 2026 at 10:11 AM
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The right to protest is under attack in the United Kingdom. 

In a new report, HRW documents that the UK’s Labour government has failed to reverse sweeping anti-protest laws introduced by the previous Conservative government.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/4qerKB0
January 8, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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📢New report: The right to protest faces its most serious assault in decades, as sweeping new laws hand police ever greater powers to suppress dissent.

JUSTICE calls for Crime and Policing Bill to be paused to prevent further erosion of democracy. (1/9)
January 8, 2026 at 10:09 AM
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Prisoners remaining on rolling hunger strike are suffering with dangerous symptoms, loved ones and a doctor say.
Palestine Action hunger strikers near death ‘intent' on continuing protests
Prisoners remaining on rolling hunger strike are suffering with dangerous symptoms, loved ones and a doctor say.
www.aljazeera.com
January 8, 2026 at 10:30 AM
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It's horrifying but grimly believable that the British government, including 'prison reformer' Lord Timpson, is willing to allow young people (who have not been convicted of an offence) to die of starvation rather than talk to them www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Let’s be clear: if the Palestine Action hunger strikers die, the government will bear moral responsibility | George Monbiot
The three remaining hunger strikers have been convicted of nothing. Yet with astonishing cruelty, ministers refuse to listen to their reasonable demands, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
January 7, 2026 at 11:54 AM
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It's 2026! 🎉

What better resolution than to learn about your #righttoprotest ?! 📣

Head to greenandblackcross.org/events to sign up and learn about yours rights, police powers, and what happens during an arrest or stop and search!

Thurs 15th + Mon 26th Jan! 📆
Know Your Rights for protests. Free online training. Thu 15th Jan 18.30-20.30 Mon 26th Jan 19.00-21.00 Register now: greenandblackcross.org/events What happens if i get arrested? What powers do the police have? What is a Legal Observer? Why might I be stopped & searched? And lots more... GBC logo bottom left. Image of the back of a police officer on the left. green background.
January 3, 2026 at 4:33 PM
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Hundreds at New Year’s Eve London prison protest freedomnews.org.uk/2026/01/02/e...
Hundreds at New Year's Eve London prison protest - Freedom News
Excessive policing of Pentonville demo in solidarity with Palestine Action hunger strikers ~ Blade Runner ~ The traditional anarchist New Year’s …
freedomnews.org.uk
January 2, 2026 at 11:50 AM
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[Edinburgh, UK] In the early hours of the 1st, Actionists smash up the Bruntons Aero Products factory in Musselburgh. Bruntons are linked to Leonardo who supplies materials used for genocide in Palestine.
January 1, 2026 at 6:26 PM
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this was a really comprehensive and easy-to-follow teach-in, highly recommend! 💻
netpol.org Netpol @netpol.org · 19d
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December 27, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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December 25, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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Great action, although the Evading Standards' assertion that shoppers at Stratford Westfield in east London would feel in any way "puzzled" by the meaning of a giant Palestine flag is, frankly, laughable www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/pale...
Boxing Day chaos as Palestine Action protest sparks disruption at Westfield Stratford
Protesters unfurled a huge Palestinian flag in the centre of the shopping mall
www.standard.co.uk
December 27, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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December 25, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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Virgin Money, a subsidiary of the 'ethical' Nationwide Building Society, has frozen the bank account of Greater Manchester Friends of Palestine because of “an investigation into Palestine Action”, despite it having no affiliation to the direct action group www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Grassroots group’s bank account frozen due to ‘Palestine Action investigation’
Greater Manchester Friends of Palestine, which has no affiliation to direct action group, informed by deputy mayor
www.theguardian.com
December 25, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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Whatever presents you received in your stocking for Christmas today, only one thing is certain.

Merry Christmas, to everyone celebrating this morning 🎅🏼
Graffiti on a bridge in Hackney, which reads "Change is the only certain thing"
December 25, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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Bobby Vylan is finally NFA'd as there is “insufficient evidence to provide a realistic prospect of conviction”. Police apparently spoke to 200 whiny genocide apologists as part of the investigation www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...
UK police drop probe into Bob Vylan’s chants about Israeli military
Police say there is 'insufficient evidence' to bring charges after investigating comments made at Glastonbury festival.
www.aljazeera.com
December 24, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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Greta Thunberg arrested in London over ‘Palestine Action prisoners’ placard www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Greta Thunberg arrested in London over ‘Palestine Action prisoners’ placard
Two other people held on suspicion of criminal damage after protest at insurance company’s offices
www.theguardian.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:35 PM