Jun 15, 2020 | Domestic Extremism
PHOTO: Shutterstock PRESS RELEASE The Chief Constable of Kent Police has this year paid a cash settlement to an anarchist writer and organiser who they had stopped and interrogated under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act. On 19th May 2013, Tom Anderson (a pseudonym to...
Mar 19, 2020 | Comment, Rights
PHOTO: Brian A Jackson | Shutterstock PRESS STATEMENT ON THE GOVERNMENT’S NEW CORONAVIRUS BILL While everyone is currently very anxious about the future, it is important that any emergency response the government plans to adopt and implement to contain the...
Feb 4, 2020 | Protest, Support Us
The comments below were left by some of the many contributors to our hugely successful “Protecting Freedom to Protest” crowdfunding campaign, which in November and December 2019 raised £11,109. A month has passed since it closed so this is an update on...
Jan 15, 2020 | Domestic Extremism, Protest
This post was first published by New Internationalist on 15 January 2020 Extinction Rebellion is not the first protest group to find itself labelled a threat because of alleged ‘extreme or violent ideologies’ and sadly it is unlikely to be the last. Over the...
Jan 15, 2020 | Domestic Extremism, Protest
This post first appeared on the Guardian Opinion website on 15 January 2020 Priti Patel probably thought she was helping when she tried to defend counter-terrorism police from the condemnation that followed last week’s story in the Guardian revealing the inclusion of...
Dec 2, 2019 | Comment, Protest
PHOTO: Splento In early November, the High Court ruled that the use of police powers to severely limit protests by Extinction Rebellion were unlawful. The Metropolitan Police claimed this was “made with good intent “. As part of our recent report...
