The GMB union's annual Campaigns for Justice conference features speakers from a range of movements, including Helen Steel speaking about political undercover policing. A lifelong campaigner for environmental and social justice issues, Helen is perhaps best known for the McLibel trial in which she and another unfunded activist defended themselves against McDonald's in the longest […]
When? 3rd October 9.30am (before a case hearing which is expected to start at 10.30am) in Court 5 Where? Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) located in Fleetbank House, Salisbury Square, London, EC4Y 8JX (off Fleet Street, nearest tube Blackfriars) What about? Showing public support for a woman’s fight for the truth and to outlaw the practice […]
Kate Wilson and Mark Kennedy Kate Wilson is one of the women whose stories of their abusive relationships with undercover police have shocked the nation. On October 3rd there will be a court hearing of the human rights case she is taking against the police. There will be a demonstration outside beforehand. The same evening […]
Rob Evans Investigative journalist Rob Evans discusses the secret group of police spies and the uncovering of forty years of state espionage monitoring British protest groups. This was an undercover operation so secret that some of our most senior police officers had no idea it existed. The job of the clandestine unit was to monitor […]
Andy Coles then and now 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 17 October 2018 Why: Andy Coles deceived a teenager into […]
Come and support 'Monica' in her legal challenge to try to get spycops prosecuted. In 2013, the Crown Prosecution Service decided not to prosecute undercover police officers who deceived women into relationships. As we said at the time, other men have been jailed for comparable and lesser sexual deceit, and if the spycops men were […]
Andy Coles then and now 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 12 December 2018 Why: Andy Coles deceived a teenager into […]
Andy Coles then and now UPDATE 14 DECEMBER: The AGM - and. thererfore, Andy Coles' talk about policing - have now been postponed to an unspecified future date. ************ When the truth was exposed about Andy Coles' history as an undercover police officer, he immediately resigned as Cambridgeshire's Deputy Police & Crime Commissioner. He spent […]
Andy Coles then and now 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 23 January 2019 Why: Andy Coles deceived a teenager into […]
On Thursday 31st January the Undercover Policing Inquiry holds its next preliminary hearing. It is trying to weigh up the right to privacy of those invovled in the scandal; can people who were spied on be publicly named? Do new data protection laws mean victims have a right to see information that's held about them? […]