This two day conference, organised by Blacklist Support Group (BSG) and the Work & Employment Research Unit (WERU) at the University of Greenwich supported by New Internatinalist and Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust, will reveal and discuss the hidden injuries of the modern workplace which are often neglected by mainstream media and academia. A key aim […]
A new documentary by producer Tom Wood from Reel News, with original and archive footage to tell the hidden story of blacklisting in the UK over the past 100 years. Followed by Q&A plus an afterparty. ALL WELCOME The new, expanded and updated edition of the Blacklisting book will be published on the same day. […]
Coinciding with the Labour Party conference in Liverpool, this meeting has a heavyweight lineup of people involved in decades of struggle for justice. The Hillsborough, Orgreave and Shrewsbury cases began with events of the 1970s and 1980s, and show the same pattern of state abuse and sustained cover up. The families of 96 Liverpool fans […]
Six key people from a broad spectrum of campaigns will speak together in Sheffield. All targeted by Britain's political police units, all denied justice for many years, they are coming together to inform and inspire. Speakers Sheila Coleman - Chair of the Hillsborough Justice Campaign Barbara Jackson, Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign Eileen Turnbull, Shrewsbury […]
Public meeting to launch the Campaign Opposing Police Surveillance in Scotland. Speakers include: Donal O'Driscoll Donal Is one of 201 'core participants' at the Pitchford Inquiry into Undercover Policing. These are individuals and groups known to have been spied upon by undercover police. Donal is also part of Undercover Research Group who have done extensive […]
Public meeting to launch the Campaign Opposing Police Surveillance in Scotland. Speakers include: Donal O'Driscoll Donal Is one of 201 'core participants' at the Pitchford Inquiry into Undercover Policing. These are individuals and groups known to have been spied upon by undercover police. Donal is also part of Undercover Research Group who have done extensive […]
Campaign Opposing Police Surveillance is proud to announce the next Voices of the Spied Upon public meeting. On Monday 10 October 2016 at the University of London, we will bring together four very different people who have been affected by Britain’s political secret police. They will speak of their personal experience, allied spycops struggles, and […]
The Thomas Helliker lecture A day of discussion about Civil Liberties Speakers include leading authors, journalists, campaigners, union activists. Among the speakers is Phil Chamberlain, co-author of the explosive Blacklisted book that uncovers illegal collusion between construction firms and police to prevent politically active workers from finding employment. with the book recently published in a […]
The 33rd London Anarchist Bookfair takes place on Saturday 29 October. It's a lot more than just books, with a large variety of meetings, talks and discussions on the bill. Among these, COPS and the Undercover Research Group will be doing a seesion on resisting undercover policing. 12-1pm Room DG5 Park View School West Green […]
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 its annual remembrance […]