This week, we’re sharing a conversation with two anti-repression organizers in the UK who are both associated with NetPol, or the Network for Police Monitoring as well as other defendant support projects. For the chat we speak about the sort of work their orgs are involved in, changes in sentencing amongst protestors, increasingly violent police suppression of antifascists counter-demonstrating (and greatly outnumbering) anti-immigrant crowds, the Filton Palestine Action cases and more. We hope you enjoy and you can find some links in the show notes on where to find more of Maya and Andy’s work.
If you’re listening to the radio edition, you’re missing about half an hour of the conversation. You can find the extended interview, alongside the transcript (soon) and many other episodes at https://tfsr.media
We recorded this interview several weeks ago, before Palestine Action was proscribed by the US as a Specially Designated Terrorist Entity and has had sanctions applied to it by the US State Department, so it’s notable that we can legally not suggest anyone offer material support to Palestine Action thanks to the Anti-Antifascist US government as they could be punished under US law.
- NetPol (including the ‘One Day In…’ protest reports): https://netpol.org
- Green and Black Cross: https://greenandblackcross.org/
- Freedom Press Youtube channel featuring Andy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v0NhHF0q6c&list=PLwiOksFHbOqSHpyVrlT5FrVaov3IpoWu_
- Keep up on the Filton Cases: https://filtonactionists.com/
- Save the SpyCops Inquiry: https://ucpi.uk/
- SpyCops clearinghouse: https://www.spycops.co.uk/
- Bristol Defendant Solidarity: https://chuffed.org/project/bds
- Guardian article on the death of Nicholas Stone on demo in Bristol: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/may/19/watchdog-investigate-death-man-after-police-contact-bristol-protest
- Our 2020 SpyCops interview: https://thefinalstrawradio.mayfirst.info/post/2020/11/29/uncovering-spy-cops-in-the-uk/
- Our 2021 interview on the Kill The Bill protests in Bristol: https://thefinalstrawradio.mayfirst.info/post/2021/10/21/support-ryan-roberts-and-killthebill-bristol-defendants/
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