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The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act introduces new powers for policing demonstrations, enabling police to clamp down even more on protests they deem “disruptive”.
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Aggravated Activism – we take it and we own it
Anarchist Bookfair workshop supports call for celebration of all the “Aggravated Activists” This article first appeared on the Freedom website on 22 September 2022 Participants at a workshop organised by Netpol at this year’s Anarchist Bookfair in London have...
Anti-royal arrests: the after-effects
Following the recent publicity surrounding anti-monarchy protest arrests, Netpol is publishing this guest piece from Hannah Chutzpah who was arrested during the royal wedding in 2011. As the post highlights, while this type of repression is appalling, it is nothing...
COMMENT: police ‘not knowing’ whether protest is permitted is deliberate – and it has to end
There has been considerable press interest in the fairly small number of arrests (or threats of arrests) of anti-monarchists since the Queen’s death on 8 September. Protests have been nothing quite as dramatic as the hundreds who gathered outside of Buckingham Palace...