The Truth About Andy Coles & Britain’s Political Secret Police – Peterborough

Andy Coles then and now The Truth About Andy Coles & Britain’s Political Secret Police Saturday 16 September, 2pm Friends Meeting House, 21 Thorpe Road, Peterborough PE3 6AB Free entry Peterborough has been shocked to find out that Councillor Andy Coles had been in a disgraced political secret police unit. But what exactly did he […]

Labour Party Conference fringe meeting, Brighton

Auditorium, Brighthelm Centre North Road, Brighton

Victims of Britain's political secret police speak out at an open meeting in Brighton during Labour Party conference week. Richard Burgon MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Justice, will introduce the meeting. Speakers include: Helen Steel, spied upon as an activist with London Greenpeace at the time of the McLibel trial, was deceived into a […]

Give Us Our Files! Home Office demo

Home Office 2 Marsham Street, London, United Kingdom

Give us our files! Release the cover names! (And the list of over 1,000 groups spied upon by the Special Demonstration Squad and the National Public Order Intelligence Unit….) Stand in solidarity with those spied upon by abusive undercover #spycops units. We will go to the Home Office in the morning and demand our Special […]

Undercover Police Inquiry: Stop the cover up

Committee Room 12, House of Commons House of Commons, London

STOP THE COVER UP Parliamentary Meeting Tuesday 10 October 2017, 5-7.30pm Committee Room 12, House of Commons, London SW1A OAA "The inquiry needs to be open, transparent and accessible to the public. Nothing less will do. All of us must now act to ensure that it doesn’t slide towards a cover-up.” - Baroness Doreen Lawrence […]

Demo for Andy Coles’ resignation, Peterborough

Peterborough Town Hall Bridge Street, Peterborough

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 11 October Why: Andy Coles deceived a teenager into an intimate relationship when he was […]

Who’s Watching Whom? – Coventry

Coventry Central Hall Warwick Lane, Coventry

Sunday 14 October, 11-4 Coventry Central Hall Free entry The extraordinary lengths to which the 'secret state' will go to defend the Establishment. Speakers: Ricky Tomlinson, Helen Steel, Dave Smith, Chris Baugh Sponsored by Unite Tom Mann branch and Coventry TUC. Ricky Tomlinson and the Shrewsbury 24 Today, Ricky Tomlinson is best known as an […]

Voices of the Spied On: Belfast

Artcetera Studio 43B Rosemary Street, Belfast

Political activists targeted by undercover officers from disgraced secret units come to Belfast to tell their shocking story. In 2010 British undercover officer Mark Kennedy was outed by the activists that he had targeted for seven years. Since then, 21 more "spycops" have been exposed. Theresa May commissioned a full-scale public inquiry, which has been […]

End the Blacklist – North East Conference

Wallsend Memorial Hall & People's Centre (the MEM) 10 Frank Street, Wallsend

More than 3,000 people had files on the illegal construction industry blacklist run by the Consulting Association when it was seized in 2009. Most major construction firms used the list yet none have faced any penalty. The personal files contained information on political activity that came from police. This wasn't police upholding the law, it […]

United Families and Friends Campaign annual procession

Trafalgar Square Westminster, London

The United Families and Friends Campaign (UFFC) is a national coalition of families and friends of those that have died in the custody of police and prison officers as well as those who are killed in immigration detention and secure psychiatric hospitals in the UK. Every year since 1999, the UFFC holds an annual remembrance […]

Book launch, spotting spycops and fighting back, Anarchist Bookfair

Park View School West Green Road, London

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 […]