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Long Read: How We Won: The Activist Deceived By a Spycop Who Took on the Met

by Alex D King

An activist, with the help of other women who had been tricked into relationships with spycops, has achieved a landmark ruling that said the Met’s use of undercover police officers is a violation of human rights.

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Opinion: Spy Cops Inquiry: An Undercover Officer Used Me to Rise to the Top of Our Movement

by Richard Chessum

Richard Chessum was targeted by an undercover police officer while he was a student organiser in the 1970s. Piggybacking on Chessum's credibility, "Rick Gibson" became one of the first spy cops to rise to the top of a group he infiltrated and to have sexual relationships with women activists, before he was finally caught out and disappeared entirely.

NovaraFM: Police State of Mind

Rivkah Brown presents a special episode examining how the blue tentacles of police power creep into our lives.

Downstream: How Britain’s Police Spied on the Left

The Undercover Policing Inquiry is examining the infiltration of more than 1,000 political groups by British police since 1968. How much has been disclosed? And will more revelations come to light? Aaron Bastani talks to Tom Fowler of the Spycops Info podcast.

A woman in a protest crowd holds up a sign that reads: 'Another Jew opposing settler colonialism from Jerusalem to Gaza'

Opinion: Four Antisemites Won’t Stop Me Supporting Palestine

by Rivkah Brown

Our struggle against Israeli apartheid cannot be derailed by the men who drove down Finchley Road on Sunday threatening Jewish people, writes Rivkah Brown.

Analysis: ‘Spycops’ Are a Quintessentially British Institution – As the Empire Well Knows

by Eleanor Penny

Liberal commentators have been dismayed at the breezy waving of the 'spycops' bill through parliament, in what they claim is a rupture with the British democratic tradition. Yet as Eleanor Penny points out, the blades of state power now trained on domestic dissent were first sharpened in the empire.

Why #Spycops Victims Walked Out of the Public Inquiry

by Connor Woodman

Spying victims staged a mass walk-out during today’s hearing for the public inquiry into undercover policing of political groups. What’s next for the inquiry moving forward? Connor Woodman reports for Novara Media.