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? […]
The public inquiry into Britain's political secret police inches forward. There wil be a preliminary hearing 10.30am on 31 January 2019 in Court 76 of the Royal Courts of Justice in London. The inquiry will be seeking views on how to comply with privacy laws, while conducting hearings in as transparent a way as possible. […]
In 1968, the British Metropolitan Police created the 'Special Demonstration Squad', an undercover group to infiltrate protest groups. 50 years later and over 1,000 groups including community action groups and justice campaigns have been spied on by over 250 officers. On many occasions, officers entered into relationships with female campaigners who knew nothing of their […]
Join us in Cambridge for a talk on state surveillance, monitoring, and infiltration, and repression of activist movements. The panel includes: Aziz Choudry (editor of Activists & The Surveillance State), Eveline Lubbers of the Undercover Research Group, and 'Jessica', an activist who was deceived into a relationship by an undercover police officer. The use of […]
Past Struggles, Present Realities, Future Victories? Social movement learning and knowledge production Aziz Choudry on the new book he edited, Activists and the Surveillance State: Learning From Repression. The use of secret police and security agencies to disrupt and undermine political opposition to the prevailing social political and economic order has a long history. Many […]
It's ten years since the Information Commissioers Office raided an obscure company, the Consulting Association, and uncovered a major scandal. More than 3,000 people were on a secret illegal construction industry blacklist. Those who'd organised trade unions, complained about unpaid wages or taken action to try to get overdue wages were on the list. Many […]
Activists vs the surveillance state: Learning from Repression What can activists learn from each other across generations, communities, struggles and countries about state security practices, about the interests that they protect, and from the resistance of activists and movements being spied upon? Drawing from a new collection edited by Aziz Choudry, with contributions from/on Aotearoa/New […]
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 6 March 2019 Why: Andy Coles deceived a teenager into […]