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The Metropolitan Police throughout the #spycops deployment period was widely known as contemptuous of the everyday racist harassment of Black communities. The undercover unit spying on the Lawrences and other justice campaigns reflected the force it was a part of www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Two Met officers running spycops unit were ‘incredibly racist’, inquiry told
Undercover unit monitored Stephen Lawrence’s family, as well as thousands of mainly leftwing political activists
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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Tom's joined by Kate Wilson, author of Disclosure: Unravelling the Spycops Files which tells the jaw-dropping story of her 10 year legal battle that got 1000s of secret police files released & the whole #spycops operation declared unlawful
www.weidenfeldandnicolson.co.uk/titles/kate-...
Disclosure
'GRIPPING . . . DISTURBING . . . INVIGORATING' OLIVIA LAING, GUARDIAN 'ASTOUNDING . . . DEVASTATING . . . COMPELLING' STUART JEFFRIES, OBSERVER 'It w...
www.weidenfeldandnicolson.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Instant reaction to the emotional end of Doreen Lawrence being questioned at the Undercover Policing Inquiry today. 32 years since her son was murdered she's still seeking the truth, trying to find out how much her campaign for justice has been stymied by the police
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJVQ...
Spycops inquiry reaction: end of 20 Nov 2025 - Doreen Lawrence evidence
YouTube video by Cops Campaign
www.youtube.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Undercover policeman ‘Dave Hagan’ HN81 spied on the family of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence & those around them, to protect the reputation of the Met Police.

Yet he refuses to give evidence before the #spycops inquiry.

JUDGE MITTING MUST CALL HN81 TO THE INQUIRY!
November 20, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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On the one-year anniversary of being jailed for vandalising an Israeli arms factory, political prisoner Aleks Herbich writes that state repression has only strengthened her commitment to the Palestinian cause tribunemag.co.uk/2025/11/pale...
Palestine Solidarity Behind Bars
On the one-year anniversary of being jailed for vandalising an Israeli arms factory, political prisoner Aleks Herbich writes that state repression has only strengthened her commitment to the Palestini...
tribunemag.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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The mother of Stephen Lawrence is pressing for the “cowardly” undercover police officer who spied on her family’s campaign for justice to be questioned at #spycops public inquiry. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Doreen Lawrence calls for ‘cowardly’ undercover officer to face public inquiry
Mother of murdered teenager to challenge ruling that David Hagan is too ill to give live evidence at spycops inquiry
www.theguardian.com
November 2, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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The #spycops inquiry has previously ruled that the undercover officer, David Hagan, was too ill to give live evidence, after submissions by his lawyers. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Doreen Lawrence calls for ‘cowardly’ undercover officer to face public inquiry
Mother of murdered teenager to challenge ruling that David Hagan is too ill to give live evidence at spycops inquiry
www.theguardian.com
November 2, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Hagan was told by his superiors that his surveillance reports were being sent directly to Sir Paul Condon, the then Metropolitan police commissioner and now a peer, who congratulated him on his “excellent” work, the #spycops inquiry has heard. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Doreen Lawrence calls for ‘cowardly’ undercover officer to face public inquiry
Mother of murdered teenager to challenge ruling that David Hagan is too ill to give live evidence at spycops inquiry
www.theguardian.com
November 2, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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We wrote a detailed summary of Kate Wilson's landmark #spycops court case, it's in two parts starting here: (@copscampaign.bsky.social)
November 2, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Kate Wilson was deceived into a relationship by #spycops officer Mark Kennedy. The courts ruled the entire political spying operation unlawful. She's written a book, Disclosure: Unravelling the Spycops Files & is doing a speaking tour in Nov/Dec 🧵
www.weidenfeldandnicolson.co.uk/titles/kate-...
Disclosure
'GRIPPING . . . DISTURBING . . . INVIGORATING' OLIVIA LAING, GUARDIAN 'ASTOUNDING . . . DEVASTATING . . . COMPELLING' STUART JEFFRIES, OBSERVER 'It w...
www.weidenfeldandnicolson.co.uk
November 2, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Thank you @cwunews.bsky.social for inviting us to speak about #spycops at your #equalities conference today, and for your support & solidarity.
October 15, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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The new #spycops inquiry hearings will hear from Doreen Lawrence who says that not only did officers spy on her grieving family but that it was sanctioned by the Home Office.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Doreen Lawrence alleges Home Office was involved in Met spying on family
‘Egregious’ police surveillance was sanctioned by government department, mother of Stephen Lawrence tells inquiry
www.theguardian.com
October 15, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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In 1987 Winston Silcott, along with Mark Braithwait and Engin Raghip, was convicted of the murder of PC Keith Blakelock. their convictions were quashed in 1991 #spycops (@tombfowler.bsky.social)
October 14, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Tom Fowler has done a short recap of Monday at #spycops inquiry.

A surprising change of tone from Met Police lawyer; apologizing, admitting wrongdoing and how the managers had failed.

The Home Office lawyer claimed new codes & safeguards in place in 2000, shifting responsibility for previous […]
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October 14, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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#OtD 11 Oct 1946 the UK govt announced that 39,535 people were squatting in 1038 military camps across England and Wales. Many were ex-servicemen's families demanding housing after WWII, and eventually a forced the govt to build mass council housing stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8350...
October 11, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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“Drawing on unpublished first-hand accounts, this is a gripping history of the experiences of the Commandos and their unsung allies in one of the bloodiest battles of the Burma Campaign.”

bookshop.org/p/books/jung...
October 9, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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Demand the Impossible review – powerful punk rage at injustices of police violence and spycops scandal
Demand the Impossible review – powerful punk rage at injustices of police violence and spycops scandal
Everyday oppression is explored through the narratives of a Black Lives Matter activist, a blacklisted construction worker and an environmental campaigner
www.theguardian.com
October 8, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Just received my copy of 'Jungle Commandos' by Lucy Betteridge-Dyson - looking forward to digging into this long-needed account of the hellish Battle of Arakan and getting some sense of what those there endured. @lmbd1418.bsky.social
October 9, 2025 at 1:02 PM
September 14, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Review by Steve Holland of ‘Irish Conflict in Comics’ by James Bacon - looks fascinating!

bearalley.blogspot.com/2025/08/iris...
Irish Conflict in Comics by James Bacon
There are very few studies of historical events as they are portrayed through comics. An introduction may tackle the origins of individual c...
bearalley.blogspot.com
August 8, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Catching up on our summaries of #spycops public inquiry hearings, we've just published the day they heard from Liz Fuller who was deceived into a long-term relationship by officer HN1 'Matt Rayner' in the early 1990s
campaignopposingpolicesurveillance.com/2025/08/06/u...
UCPI – Daily Report: 14 January 2025 - Liz (Denise) Fuller
The Undercover Policing Inquiry hears from Liz Fuller who was deceived into a relationship by spycop HN1 'Matt Rayner' in the early 1990s
campaignopposingpolicesurveillance.com
August 6, 2025 at 6:58 PM
@mikeowencarroll.bsky.social Another satisfied reader 🫡
August 6, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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#OtD 28 Jul 1985 Anti-Fascist Action (AFA) was launched at a meeting at @ConwayHall in London, UK. Its dedication to "physical and ideological opposition" to fascism would see it drive numerous far-right groups off the streets. This is a short history: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1002...
July 28, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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‘So that attention does not diminish’:
Members from three German parties visit Maja T. in custody in #Hungary. They return with information and demands.
digit.site36.net/2025/07/22/s...
‘So that attention does not diminish’: Members from three German parties visit Maja T. in Hungarian custody | Matthias Monroy
Three members of the Bundestag visited anti-fascist Maja T., who is being held in Hungary. They are calling for a political reappraisal and her return to Germany. An inter-party delegation of three…
digit.site36.net
July 22, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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July 2, 2025 at 8:42 PM