Palestine Action is in good company. British governments and courts criminalised resistance to slavery, the Chartist movement for universal male suffrage, any organising by trade unionists, and the Suffragette movement to win women the vote.
None of our rights were given to us by the ruling class. We had to fight for each of them tooth and nail.
The British establishment is always on the wrong side of history, because history is with the struggle of ordinary people, not with the selfish interests of the billionaires and war industries.
Those earlier struggles were deemed the terrorism of their day by the very same "liberals" – the British establishment and its useful idiots – who today declare any practical action to stop British complicity in Israel's genocide to be terrorism.
Note too as proof of bad faith: the British establishment is well advanced in its efforts to declare entirely peaceful protest – marches through the streets – as anti-social, hate crimes and soon enough terrorism too.
The ruling class consider attempts to stop a genocide, even holding a banner against the mass murder of children, to be far worse than racist pogroms in Belfast, which try to burn alive people in their homes because of the colour of their skin.
Your reminder today, as no one will report it, that the leading children's protection charity in the UK, NSPCC, opposes a blanket ban on social media, along with many other children's safety groups.
This is what they've said:
"But for countless children, especially those who feel shut out or unheard offline, social media isn’t a luxury. It’s a lifeline – a source of community, identity, and vital support.
“A blanket ban would take those spaces away overnight and risks driving teenagers into darker, unregulated corners of the internet. Everyone involved in this debate will have the best interests of children at heart, but children’s fundamental right to participate safely in the digital world, to access information, to connect with peers, and to have their voices heard must be protected. They should not be stripped of those rights because tech companies have repeatedly failed to build platforms that protect them."
It's pretty damned obvious that it's not possible for a defendant to mount any form of adequate legal defence against offences they are not charged with.
Please RT this until this injustice is corrected.
Thank you.
@Keir_Starmer history will look very poorly upon you, like the illiberal clowns who criminalised opposition to slavery, the Chartists’ fight for democracy and the Suffragettes
We are now submitting our appeal against the "sisting" of the Scottish judicial review of the proscription of Palestine Action.
This is now absolutely essential. I am sorry but we desperately need donations to take this forward.
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In case anyone’s watching - I oppose genocide, I support direct action to oppose genocide, ergo I supported the Ploughshares Four & I support Palestine Action!
@Keir_Starmer get in the sea - Palestine will be free from the river to where you belong
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At no stage in the Court of Appeal judgment was there any mention of the PURPOSE of Palestine Action, which was to take all possible steps to stop the GENOCIDE, the crime of crimes
Plenty of mention of the property rights of third parties. These third parties were not named but mostly they are arms companies supplying weapons to commit genocide
The judgement was disgraceful IMO
I personally think a ban on social media for under 14s is quite open and shut (FB Ts&Cs means it’s already *meant* to be 13) but you can’t put YouTube in the same category as Snap or Tik Tok.
Discussed here with excellent @JonHaidt for NM a while back.
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Blaming asylum seekers for homelessness? What about the 720,000 empty homes in England, and the 1,627,450 second homes in England alone.
Blaming asylum seekers for expensive food shops? What about the £3,100,000,000 profit Tesco made last year?
Blaming asylum seekers for expensive energy bills? What about the £438,000,000,000 made by just 20 energy companies in profit?
Blaming immigrants for not getting an NHS appointment? What about the 260,000+ migrant workers keeping the NHS going? And what about the 25% real term cut in NHS funding, think that could do it?
Blaming people on welfare for a lack of money to fund the NHS? What about the £36,000,000,000 tax gap due to avoidance and evasion by the elite?
It's time to realise it's not immigrants, asylum seekers or people on welfare causing you any harm, it's capitalism and the mega rich hoarding all the wealth.
@harriepw The Lady Chief Justice’s depth of knowledge regarding the Suffragettes wouldn’t drown a gnat… which is doubly tragic when we consider that her own position is owed to their struggle.
#DEEDSnotWORDS 🔨
This man is desperate to get the keys to No. 10.
But did you know about the secret connection between Andy Burnham and a weapons company complicit in air strikes in Gaza?
This is the scandal Burnham does NOT want voters to know about…🧵