The United States’ illegal incursion into Venezuela, universally regarded by legal scholars as a crime under international law, is the latest and most full-throated assertion of a return to colonial logics, as the old liberal-democratic order continues its precipitous collapse.

After their protest at RAF Brize Norton, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has announced plans to designate direct action group Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation. Palestine Action sprayed paint on military jet engines as a protest against the UK’s complicity in Israel’s genocide. This is not terrorism. 

This week marks one year since the 7th October massacre and the start of Israel’s brutal and ongoing genocide against the people of Gaza. Both as a worker-owned co-operative and as a group of people, we continue to be appalled and disgusted by these actions supported by our government, in the name of us here in the UK.

As a worker-owned company and as a group of people, we are appalled by the racist and Islamophobic riots that took place over the weekend including where we live and work in Rotherham and Sheffield. The violence and hate we have seen, particularly against migrants, Muslims and refugees, is heartbreaking, frightening and enraging.

As an organisation committed to furthering systemic change, we condemn the University of Sheffield’s calls for the Palestine student encampment housed on the concourse outside the Students’ Union to disband. We call on the university to drop any threats of disciplinary and legal action. We assert our full support for the Sheffield Campus Coalition for Palestine (SCCP).