On 15 January 1990 smoke was seen rising from the Stasi HQ in Berlin as officers desperately tried to destroy the evidence of their abuses. Citizens stormed the building, stopped the destruction and, for the first time, saw the files that showed the scale and depth of what the political secret police had been doing […]

On 15 January 1990 people saw smoke rising from the Stasi headquarters in Berlin. The Wall was coming down and the spycops were desperately destroying the evidence that damned them. The new political spirit of openness did not extend to people being given their files - they were only saved, and the extent of the […]

Blacklisted tells the controversial story of the illegal strategies that transnational construction companies resorted to in their attempt to keep union activists away from their places of work. This is a story of a bitter struggle, in which collusion with the police and security services resulted in victimization, violence and unemployment, with terrible effects on […]