A selection of organisations whose work intersects with ours and may be of interest or assistance to people engaged with working against state oppression.
TSW UK is officially supported by Northern Police Monitoring Project.
NPMP is an independent, grassroots organisation working with communities facing police harrassment, brutality and racism based in Greater Manchester. They monitor the policing of marginalised communities and aim to support and draw together various community campaigns in response to policing. They also provide advice, support, advocacy and access to specialist legal assistance for individuals and families, as well as community outreach initiatives and educational projects including know-your-rights workshops in relation to police 'Stop and Search' powers. Learn about their work here.
The following organisations do not have a formal relationship to TSWUK, but we believe their work to be important and relevant to our own. All are UK based unless otherwise specified.
- Right to Remain challenges injustice in the immigration and asylum system by providing information, resources, training and assistance to help people to establish their right to remain in the UK, and to support campaigns against border violence.
- Community Action on Prison Expansion (CAPE) is a network of grassroots groups fighting prison expansion in England, Wales and Scotland. They seek alternatives to state violence that keep communities safe and achieve real social justice.
- SWARM is a collective founded and led by sex workers who believe in self-determination, solidarity and co-operation, campaigning for the rights and safety of everyone who sells sexual services. They advocate for the full decriminalisation of sex work.
- UK Lesbian and Gay Immigration Group supports LGBTQI+ people through the asylum and immigration system.
- Lesbians and Gays Support the Migrants is a queer activist group that, through fundraising and direct action, stand in solidarity with all migrants and refugees.
- The Network for Police Monitoring (NETPOL) is an organisation that monitors public order, street and protest policing, and aims to challenge and resist policing which is excessive, discriminatory or threatens civil rights.
Green & Black Cross is an autonomous, volunteer-run group that provides help and advice to protestors and activists for legal issues around protest, with the aim of empowering people to take political action and protect them while doing so.
The London Campaign Against Police and State Violence (LCAPSV) is a group of voluntary campaigners working to make the Metropolitan Police accountable to local communities for abuses of power; and bring an end to its culture of brutality and racial profiling including the racist use of Stop & Search.