The murder of an anti-racist protester in 1979 by a special unit of the Met Police was followed by a gruelling battle to win answers about what happened on that tragic day. Now material related to that campaign is available to the public and researchers for the first time at the Bishopsgate Institute. INDIANNA PURCELL reports
TONY COLLINS looks at the evidence he has uncovered in his research on our early labour movement of deep and hostile police infiltration that ruined lives in the last century
In an exclusive investigation, BETHANY RIELLY looks at how the state targeted leading politicians and campaigning groups — labelling many well-known figures 'extremists' and 'subversives' for attempting to hold the police to account
BETHANY RIELLY charts the story of shattered lives and sexual abuse exposed by the undercover policing inquiry so far – and asks what next for those who fought so hard to bring the inquiry about
If the right to protest is conditional — to be withdrawn if a police officer believes someone is annoyed — then it is not a right as such, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
Oliver Sanders QC described the ‘casual’ sexual encounters undercover officers had with the unsuspecting activists were ‘the kind that happens between consenting men and women’
That the Tories wish to grant undercover agents more power to infiltrate well-meaning activist groups is an issue of grave importance which should concern us all, says CLAUDIA WEBBE MP
The Labour leader’s tolerance of the new invasive measures awarded to agents of the state flies in the face of the early traditions of the working-class movement, explains KEITH FLETT
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