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A protest at police spying on lawful organisations held in 2018
TRADE unions are demanding answers on whether their legal and democratic activities were subjected to deep surveillance by a top-secret spycop unit over four decades.
A number of unions have been given core participant status in the undercover policing inquiry.
There has been an angry response to revelations that spycops with two top-secret units with the Metropolitan Police spied on trade unions and collected information that was passed on to blacklist firms.
Newly revealed documents reveal that MI5 taught Brazilian secret police the techniques deployed by the 1964-85 military dictatorship in horrific prisons like Rio de Janeiro’s House of Death. SARA VIVACQUA reports
A past confrontation permanently shaped the methods the state will use to protect employers against any claims by their employees, writes MATT WRACK, but unions are readying to face the challenge
JOHN GREEN has doubts about the efficacy of the Freedom of Information Act, once trumpeted by Tony Blair
The Home Secretary’s recent letter suggests the Labour government may finally deliver on its nine-year manifesto commitment, writes KATE FLANNERY, but we must move quickly: as recently as 2024 Northumbria police destroyed miners’ strike documents