The deployment of secret political police into protest groups has been the subject of a public inquiry since 2015. These undercover cops targeted campaigns for social and environmental justice across the UK for over 50 years, using the identities of dead children, they deceived women into long term intimate sexual relationships; manipulating both personal lives and public life in the name of averting "subversion" and "public disorder". So far we have heard about the actions of these agents of repression in the 1960s and 1970s, with the inquiry planning on examining the 1980s and 1990s later this year. A talk on the background, developments in proceedings and insights into the way in which the UK state has suppressed dissent for over half a century. Explaining what happened and why it matters for protest movements today, as well as for the people and campaigns that were affected in the past. SPYCOPS: Tom will also lead a discussion with short films around the inquiry into the undercover policing in Britain that has gone on for five decades, infiltrating pretty much every progressive movement during that time. With latest news from the inquiry, which is due to start again with new hearings in July.
Targeted by undercover officers for many years whilst active in environmental and social justice campaigns, Tom hs spent much of the last 14 years taking legal action against the police, doing live reports from court and producing the Spycops Info Podcast. He has attended every hearing of the inquiry since it launched and will be present at every hearing in the future.
Targeted by undercover officers for many years whilst active in environmental and social justice campaigns, Tom hs spent much of the last 14 years taking legal action against the police, doing live reports from court and producing the Spycops Info Podcast. He has attended every hearing of the inquiry since it launched and will be present at every hearing in the future.
