Right To Resist • For the right to organise and protest • Ban kettling • Defend those arrested in the recent student protests • Stop the cuts • Stop police brutality and intimidation The vicious police response to the recent student protests is wholly unacceptable and totally uncalled for. The baton charges and use of ‘kettling’ only serve to fuel anger and frustration and in part, at least, are deliberately designed to provoke strong reactions from demonstrators. Police brutality and intimidation on demonstrations, protests and picket lines are nothing new. As the class struggle grows in the wake of the Tory/Lib-Dem government’s ideology-driven attack on public services and jobs, the role of the police in ‘managing’ protests will continue to grow and harden. We demand that all the charges are dropped against all students and their supporters arrested in the recent wave of student activity. We call for a ban on ‘kettling’ as a means of control and intimidation of peaceful protesters. ‘Kettling’ has been added to the armoury of police warfare, alongside baton and horse-mounted police cavalry charges, to intimidate protesters and dissenters. We believe that the Tory/Lib-Dem government has no majority electoral mandate for the cuts it is pushing through. People voted for the Tory-stooge Lib-Dems on a promise that they would oppose the cuts which they are now helping the Tories railroad through. We believe ‘kettling’ is arbitrary imprisonment and is a direct attack on our basic human right to protest, contravening Articles 10 and 11 of the Human Rights Act. We call on student and labour movement organisations to actively oppose ‘kettling’.

Signatories (all in a personal capacity): Chester NUT Martin Upchurch, Professor of Pat Smith, Hull University Students Elaine Jones, Vice Chair, Wirral TUC International Employment Relations, Middlesex University Against Fees, and occupier Ed Whitby, shop steward, Newcastle John McDonnell, Labour MP for Hayes City Unison Christian Kerslake, Senior Lecturer, Philosophy, Middlesex University & Harlington Dave Kirk, shop steward, Unite (Energy Michael Chessum, Education & Sector) Dr Ozlem Onaran, Senior Lecturer in Economics, Middlesex University Campaigns officer, University College Steve Miller, Unite Metals Sector Union, National Campaign Nicola Goodchild, postgraduate Julia Long, National Officer Unite the Against Fees & Cuts founder philosophy student, Kingston Union Jade Baker, Vice President Education, University Martin Mayer, Unite the Union Westminster University Student Union Adele Winston, BECTU retired member Executive and Chair, Sheffield Anti- Bob Sutton, Merseyside Network Cuts Alliance Tirza Waisel, Barnet, north London Against Fees & Cuts Margaret Manning, Branch Secretary, Noel Lynch, London Luke Evans, University of Liverpool, Unite the Union NW 389 Neil Devlin Merseyside Network Against Fees & Cathy Watson, Women’s Officer, Chris McCabe Cuts Welwyn Hatfield CLP; Labour Paulene Robson Tom Prior, University of Liverpool, Representation Committee NC; Unite Mike Virtue Merseyside Network Against Fees & member Cuts Ged Dempsey, National & Regional Rosie Huzzard, Young Members Committee, Unite GPM Print Sector Add your signature: Officers, PCS DWP Sheffield branch & Rachel Maskell, National Officer, Unite Young Members Area Convenor, PCS the Union South Yorkshire Name ...... Ross Quin, Unite workplace rep and Brian Hocknull, PCS, Notts Save Our Trade Union Liaison Officer, Wallasey Services, Labour Party member Constituency Labour Party Signature ...... Janine Booth, Secretary, RMT London Sean Rillo Raczka, Chair, Birkbeck Transport Regional Council Students’ Union Paul Rutland, Chair RMT TfL No.1 Posittion (for identification only) Robyn Minogue, Education Officer, Branch University of the Arts London Mick Crossey, branch secretary, Students’ Union ...... Camden 3 RMT Branch Hero Austin, Community and Welfare Tahmeena Bax Officer, LSE Students’ Union Email: ...... Jake Paget, Vice President for Further Louis Hartnoll, President, University of Education, Plymouth College of Art SU the Arts London Students’ Union Patrick Murphy, National Union of Alec McFadden, President, Merseyside Phone ...... Teachers Executive TUC John Illingworth, Former President of Donnacha DeLong, NUJ Vice President the NUT (2001-2002) http://righttoresist.wordpress.com Chris Morley, NUJ Northern and Tom Unterrainer, President, Nottingham Midlands Organiser City NUT Vicki Morris, publicity officer, Barnet BM Box 4628, London WC1N 3XX Felicity Dowling, Cheshire West and TUC