Palestine Action Protests to begin at party conference

A week of mass actions protesting against the ban on Palestine Action has been announced, beginning at the Labour party conference in Liverpool and culminating in a national mobilisation in Parliament Square in London on 4 October.

- Haroon Siddique

The plans were announced by Defend Our Juries yesterday, a week after 857 people were arrested under the Terrorism Act at a demonstration outside parliament opposing the ban. It said the next phase of the protests represented a "major escalation" that would create an "unprecedented challenge" for the police, with 1,100 people already registered to take part and risk arrest.

"There should be no confusion about where the blame lies: it sits squarely with the government for pursuing this authoritarian ban, plunging an overstretched police force and court and prison systems which are already in crisis, into further chaos," a spokesperson said.