Watching spycop Jim Boyling at the public inquiry, I felt like he had actually always held us in contempt ~ Helen Beynon ~ Earlier this month, the …
Road protests infiltration: More questions than answers
Tag: Undercover Policing Inquiry
Spycops inquiry update: Victims’ needs are last in line
The UCPI speaks of taking a trauma-based approach, but its actions are constantly squeezing those who were spied upon ~ Donal O’Driscoll, Underco…
Did police know their informant was a paedophile?
The recent conviction is especially troubling for those who had children at Newbury Bypass protest camp ~ Helen Beynon ~ The man I now know as Nich…
Holding back the police state: Interview with Kate Wilson
Fifteen years on, one of the women who blew the lid off the Spycops scandal talks to Freedom about her political insights — and what the Unde…
Spycops Inquiry to hear evidence of Freedom infiltration
Undercover Roger Pearce — later head of the Special Demonstration Squad — attempted to link anarchist paper to Northern Irish republicans in the …
Infiltration and what we can do about it
Every few years, the issue of infiltration into anarchist and activist groups becomes a topic of conversation again.
The story spycops tried to hide: part I
The closing hearing in the first “tranche” of the Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI) took place earlier this year.
Spycops Inquiry: Closing statements roundup
Yesterday saw closing statements in the Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI), a sprawling investigation into the use of spycops covering four decades…
What is the Undercover Policing Inquiry?
The public inquiry into Britain’s political secret police – the Undercover Policing Inquiry, or UCPI – is finally beginning this summer.
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Starmer’s downfall – long time coming yet inevitable
The outgoing PM is a textbook example of a public figure who jettisoned principles in the search for power ~ Paul Gravett ~ The revolving door of U…
EU votes to speed up deportations
Removal of undocumented people becomes easier as far-right international continues to rise ~ Blade Runner ~ An alliance of centre-right and far-rig…
Notes from the US: Sadistic idiocy
MAGA apologists square multiple circles just in order to ‘live with themselves’ ~ Louis Further ~ A new study by members of the School …
Dissident Russian artist murdered in Poland
Assassination of Semyon Skrepetsky is a threatening message to the entire Russian opposition in Europe ~ Nikita Ivansky ~ Bashkir artist Semyon Skr…
Lament for a lost revolution
A century since the General Strike of 1926 ~ punkacademic ~ In the opening week of May 1926, Britain had its first, last, and only General Strike.
