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...

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-...

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...

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!

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...

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...

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...

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...

We wrote a detailed summary of Kate Wilson's landmark #spycops court case, it's in two parts starting here: (@copscampaign.bsky.social)

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-...

Thank you @cwunews.bsky.social for inviting us to speak about #spycops at your #equalities conference today, and for your support & solidarity.

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...

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)

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 […]

#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...

“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...

Demand the Impossible review – powerful punk rage at injustices of police violence and spycops scandal

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

@alexdecampi.bsky.social @andiewington.bsky.social @rhi.bsky.social @calumalexanderwatt.bsky.social I think he likes it 🤣

Review by Steve Holland of ‘Irish Conflict in Comics’ by James Bacon - looks fascinating! bearalley.blogspot.com/2025/08/iris...

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...

@mikeowencarroll.bsky.social Another satisfied reader 🫡

#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...

‘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...

Just spotted that Rebellion is reprinting the Don Lawrence historical epic Maroc The Mighty! Not seen it since it got a cheap airing in the mid-80s in the Eagle Picture Library - even with watered-down ink and on newsprint the art jumped off the page 👍 2000ad.com/news/out-now...

💥💥OUT NOW! 📣📣Paperback of ‘The Undercover Police Scandal: Love & Lies Exposed’. On @ITV tonight at 9pm. #spycops lnk.to/UndercoverPo...

What're your thoughts on John Mitting's current handling of the Undercover Police Inquiry? Your feedback is important! #spycops

Looks like a superb line-up! Great to see Si Gane being lured out! #Arnie4Life!

#OtD 12 Mar 1977 authorities shut down Radio Alice, a radical pirate radio station in Bologna, during a rebellion in response to the police murder of Francesco Lorusso. The station had been an essential hub for workers, students, feminists & gay groups stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8...

New: we've obtained a leaked list of the more than 200 sites, services, apps an ICE surveillance contractor monitors. Bluesky, OnlyFans, many more. Used to track targets. Highly relevant with the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil by ICE. We've published the full list here: www.404media.co/the-200-site...

Cartoonist R.E. Burke detained by ICE on backpacking trip

100 spied-on individuals & groups have told the #spycops public inquiry they won't be giving evidence unless they're given more time. The Inquiry's delayed its next hearings by 7 months yet is keeping witnesses to earlier impossible deadlines campaignopposingpolicesurveillance.com/2025/03/10/t...

Loose Talk, a 1983 @channel4tv.bsky.social music chat show was filmed @thealbanyse8.bsky.social Deptford and featured in one episode Peter Capaldi, Grace Jones & Sade's first TV appearance (Tom Waits also touched down in Deptford in another episode) transpont.blogspot.com/2025/03/musi...

New MILK & CHEESE original art up on ebay, with bonus index card drawing: www.ebay.com/itm/25684765...

Far more #spycops were sent into antifascist than fascist organisations. Founded in 1968, they didn't infiltrate the far right at all until the 80s. One officer told the public inquiry that fascists weren't a problem in the 1970s!

The women who exposed the #spycops sent by the state to deceive and rape them have faced these horrors with extraordinary courage and strength. They have revealed the lengths to which the state will go - regardless of whether the Conservatives or Labour are in office - to crush dissent.

"The officially sanctioned deception and abuse of multiple young women by British police officers was a disgraceful episode. It is not enough to pledge that it will never be repeated." Editorial comment from the Guardian today. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio... #spycops

The Intercept's @shawnmusgrave.bsky.social has newly identified several DOGE staffers, all with law degrees, including an Amazon plant. * Dechert lawyer Justin Aimonetti * Amazon lawyer Ashley Boizelle * libertarian Institute for Justice fellow Joshua Fox * Williams & Connolly lawyer Joshua Hanley

#Spycops This is not individual bad behaviour, but systematic abuse www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

For more about the shocking stories of women deceived into relationships by #spycops, and how they've been camapaigning & winning legal cases to reveal the truth about Britain's political secret police, see the @spiesoutoflives.bsky.social site: policespiesoutoflives.org.uk

So not-secret its recruitment process wasn't even revolving door, it was grab-any-warm-body-in-the-corridor

Not quite a singular rotten apple: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Good piece from @robevansgdn.bsky.social on the degrading & traumatising nature of the #SpyCops scandal. Anti-#GMO protesters were among the many activists spied on. A new TV series (The Undercover Police Scandal...) starts 9pm Thursday 6th March on ITV/@itvx.com www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Helen Steel was in her 20s and deeply in love with a man who told her he would “like to spend the rest of his life” with her, and that he wanted to have children with her. But it was all a lie — he was an undercover police officer sent to spy on her. #SpyCops www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

📣📣📣New interview w/ 'Lisa' in The Independent about #spycops doc out this Thursday. archive.ph/wLbms

Wasn't expecting a mention of the National Domestic Extremism and Disorder Intelligence Unit in the Stroud Times, but there you have it! @markthomasinfo.bsky.social appearing in town this Thursday, it seems #spycops stroudtimes.com/revealed-wha...

Kids getting into the classics 😎 #comics

Seems to be a case of 'incremental candour'