Analysis: Stop Sexing Up the Spy Cops Scandal, Say Victims
Rivkah Brown
The media’s prurient obsession with women's trauma has ensured the inquiry is a depoliticised dead-end, writes Rivkah Brown.
Tag: spycops
Feature: What We Learned at the Latest Round of the Spycops Inquiry
Polly Smythe
Spycops may have sent information to blacklisters and they hated democratic accountability.
Long Read: How We Won: The Activist Deceived By a Spycop Who Took on the Met
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.
Opinion: Spy Cops Inquiry: An Undercover Officer Used Me to Rise to the Top of Our Movement
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.
Novara FM: 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.
Opinion: Four Antisemites Won’t Stop Me Supporting Palestine
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
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
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.