Date: Saturday 28th October from 10am to 7pm - Spycops session 4pm-6pm. Venue: Park View School, West Green Road, London, N15 3QR Free entry There's a three-part session on Britain's political secret police at this year’s London Anarchist Bookfair. - First, a look at the past when John Quail talks about the history of police […]
When: Tuesday October 31st, Hallowe'en Night, 17:30 Where: Sheffield, Devonshire Green March to Sheffield Law Court The Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign have called this Death of Justice Rally to mark the one year anniversary of Home Secretary Amber Rudd’s shocking decision not to hold any form of inquiry into the infamous “Battle of Orgreave” where 95 miners […]
It is over seven years since the undercover policing scandal broke, creating shock that the police could commit such abuses against social, animal, and environmental justice campaigners in our country. Public outrage at the scandals around undercover policing led to the Public Inquiry into Undercover Policing. Three years in, just ahead of when it was […]
Sir John Mitting The Chair of the Undercover Policing Inquiry, Sir John Mitting, has received submissions from the non-police, non-state core participants further to his ‘Minded to’ note on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (‘the 1974 Act’). As a result the Inquiry will be holding a hearing in relation to the use of evidence […]
The illegal construction industry blacklist was caught and shut down eight years ago. More than 3,000 people were on the blacklist because they were 'troublemakers' who wanted their legal rights of decent health and safety standards and the right to be represented by a union. Lives were ruined. Although most big construction firms used the […]
Andy Coles, aka Special Demonstration Squad officer Andy Davey What: Demonstration outside Peterborough City Council meeting calling for former abusive spycop and current Tory Councillor Andy Coles to resign. Where: Town Hall, Bridge Street, Peterborough, PE1 1HF When: 6pm, Wednesday 13 December Why: Andy Coles deceived a teenager into an intimate relationship when he was […]
Andy Coles, aka Special Demonstration Squad officer Andy Davey What: Demonstration outside Peterborough City Council meeting calling for former abusive spycop Councillor Andy Coles to resign. Where: Town Hall, St Peter's Road, Peterborough PE1 1YX (rear entrance; the main Bridge Street entrance is not usually used) When: 6pm, Wednesday 24 January 2018 Why: Andy […]
The fifth annual "Domestic Extremist Awareness Day" takes place on Monday 5 February. We are campaigning for a complete end to the meaningless but sinister use of the ‘domestic extremist’ label against all political dissent - a critical justification for state surveillance on protest movements in the UK. The term is used by police and […]
It is over seven years since the undercover policing scandal broke, creating shock that the police could commit such abuses against social, animal, and environmental justice campaigners in our country. Public outrage at the scandals around undercover policing led to the Public Inquiry into Undercover Policing. Three years in, just ahead of when it was […]
Sir John Mitting The Chair of the Undercover Policing Inquiry, Sir John Mitting, has announced another preliminary hearing of the inquiry. It will be concerned with: The anonymity applications by five former members of the Special Demonstration Squad whose real and cover names the Inquiry is minded to withhold from the public; The Inquiry’s consultation […]