ACTIVISTS and trade unionists must resist the cops inside our heads if we are ever to defeat the Tories’ attacks on our hard-won democratic rights, a meeting at The World Transformed (TWT) festival heard today.

Holly Turner, a nurse and activist with the NHS Workers Say No campaign, made the call on a panel focused on how the left should push back against the government’s anti-strike and anti-protest laws.

“A lot of the anti-trade union laws that we have been internalised,” she told the audience at the left-wing festival running alongside the Labour Party conference in Liverpool.