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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]