Freedom News

Palestine Action targets ‘Security and Policing’ arms fair organisers 

March 12th: Hours before the UK government's 'Security and Policing' fair was scheduled, Palestine Action targeted the organisers of the arms fair

Palestine Action slash painting of Lord Balfour

March 9th: Palestine Action ruined a 1914 painting of Lord Arthur James Balfour - the colonial administrator and signatory of the Balfour Declaration.

Two day blockade of Bristol arms fair over genocide links

March 7th: On 5th and 6th March 2024, campaigners blockaded access to the Bristol arms fair.

DPAC return to the streets

March 5th: This followed a meeting held on February 19th to declare a united resistance of disability groups against the latest round of brutal welfare cuts.

Palestine Action targets F-35 part supplier 

March 4th: Activists from Palestine Action targeted Smith Metals headquarters over their complicity in the Gaza genocide.

Ongoing: Protest at Israeli pharmaceutical factory

March 4th: From 5.30 am this morning, over 30 People have been protesting at the Israeli pharmaceutical company Teva Pharmaceutical Industries.

Palestine Action occupy BNY Mellon’s Manchester offices  

March 1st: Activists from Palestine Action occupied the Manchester offices of Bank of New York (BNY) Mellon, which invests over £10million in Israel’s most prominent weapons firm, Elbit Systems.

Cleaners fight Amazon

February 27th: Minimum wage cleaners at Amazon warehouses in Enfield and Ipswich are set to ballot for strike action over attempts to cut their paid breaks and bank holiday enhancements. 

Palestine Action shut down Elbit Shenstone

February 27th: This morning, activists from Palestine Action returned once again to Staffordshire to inflict a blow to Israel's arms trade by shutting down the factory responsible for making their drone engines.

High court blocks case against death merchants

February 23rd: On Monday 19th February, the High Court ruled that it wouldn’t allow the legal case against the UK government over arms sales to Israel to proceed.