Over 500 arrested as hundreds gather to defy Palestine Action ban in London
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Hundreds of people took part in the first mass protest since the group's ban was found to be unlawful

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/45812221

11 April 2026

Over 200 people have been arrested central London on Saturday at a mass demonstration opposing the UK government’s proscription of the direct action group Palestine Action.

Some 500 protesters set up camping chairs at the foot of the steps of Trafalgar Square, displaying handmade cardboard signs reading: “I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action.”

The demonstrators were met with a heavy police presence, with vans lining the square hours before the vigil began.

  • phutatorius@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    1 day ago

    This authoritarianism from Starmer is a sign of his weakness. So a bigger protest might scare him even more.

    He’s unfit to lead, and is a backstabbing snake pretending that he wasn’t part of the Labour coup engineered by Mandelson and McSweeney that made him party leader. I’m reasonably sure that Yvette Cooper was also in on it.