Blacklisted:Thebook

The inside story of a covert operation to blacklist trade unionists and campaigners by business and the state by @philchamberlain @daveblacklist

[Blacklisted:Thebook @blacklistedbook]

Expanded. Updated. Definitive.
@blacklistedbook from @newint by @DaveBlacklist and @philchamberlain
https://t.co/sREiFX3GW5

[BristleKRS @BristleKRS]

@Donna__McLean @CamberwickC @out_of_lives @DaveBlacklist @philchamberlain @robevansgdn @evelinelubbers @RaphSchlembach Adjacent:

Animal Warfare by David Henshaw (covers ARNI in its pre-NPOIU guise)

Battling Big Business edited by @evelinelubbers (focusing on private sector spooks, many of whom received police assistance)

Spies At Work by Mike Hughes (Economic League blacklist etc)

[Donna McLean @Donna__McLean]

@CamberwickC Last but not least, here's the #Spycops Booklist 📚
• Small Town Girl by moi
• Deep Deception by @out_of_lives
• Blacklisted by @DaveBlacklist & @philchamberlain
• Undercover by @robevansgdn
• Secret Manoeuvres in the Dark by @evelinelubbers
• Spycops by @RaphSchlembach

[Donna McLean @Donna__McLean]

@CamberwickC Spycops history, key info and players are neatly condensed here:
https://t.co/GQzobnOXG3

[Dave Smith @DaveBlacklist]

As spied on activists, who are now core participants in the #spycops inquiry, our role is to expose the anti-democratic nature of UK’s secret political policing. So that the public can no longer be fooled by politicians & media claims that “things like that don’t happen here”…🧵

[Dave Smith @DaveBlacklist]

Lawful political, anti-racist, trade union, environmental & animal rights groups were infiltrated by #spycops, instructed by the upper echelons of the British state. The intelligence was used in party political campaigning & circulated to big business to #blacklist us…🧵

[Dave Smith @DaveBlacklist]

For clarity, protest is part of a healthy democracy, secret political policing is not and however reluctant he is to go there, chair of the #SpycopsInquiry Mitting is going to find this issue hard to avoid… 🧵

[Dave Smith @DaveBlacklist]

Political policing is anti-democratic. Evidence in this Tranche of the establishment targeting groups for ideological purposes, spying on MPs, spreading political misinformation to the Press & using #spycops reporting in Tory Party electioneering really drives that point home…🧵

[Secret Manoeuvres @evelinelubbers]

On the nail, @DaveBlacklist on the refusal of the #spycops @ucpinquiry to address the fact that what the secret SDS unit did was political policing in the interest of the state and big business (I think that's called capitalism...)

[Dave Smith @DaveBlacklist]

Mitting’s Interim Report states that he:
“refrained from expressing any view about the proposition that the #spycops were one of the instruments set up by a conservative state to suppress the aspirations of those who wished to produce radical change by political means” …🧵

[Dave Smith @DaveBlacklist]

#Construction News article on Labour’s plans for construction. And the first thing they highlight is #blacklisting of union members.

https://t.co/f5VwSwGktZ

[Tom Fowler @tombfowler]

The lead lawyer in the public inquiry into undercover policing has warned the next government and law enforcement to “heed the lessons” from past use of #spycops. David Barr KC said the inquiry is not purely a historical exercise. https://t.co/qMcRxvmHiP

[Tom Fowler @tombfowler]

The Metropolitan Police has apologised for the “indefensible” use of undercover #spycops officers to infiltrate anti-racism police justice campaigns in the 1980s and early 1990s. https://t.co/QKQBI7xfMU

[Tom Fowler @tombfowler]

The next stage of the public inquiry into the shocking actions of #spycops officers who infiltrated 100s of left-wing groups resumed today. Opening statements were made on the activities of the now-disbanded Special Demonstration Squad. https://t.co/pt0PNkK609

[Tom Fowler @tombfowler]

Met police have issued a series of wide-ranging apologies to campaigners for the “indefensible” use of #spycops officers. Admitting to “serious failings and wrongdoing”, conceding there was a “general failure” by senior managers to supervise
https://t.co/vx45M9ywp5

[Tom Fowler @tombfowler]

Here is a visitors guide to what you can expect to see and hear at the #spycops inquiry this July.
It also gives you an idea of what I will be doing in covering proceedings during this set of hearings
https://t.co/7q9AsMqzqE

[Dave Smith @DaveBlacklist]

5 days til #spycops inquiry hearings restart and #blacklisted #union activists have been sent a Penal Notice & Restriction Order, which states that we could face imprisonment if we talk to anyone about what is written in our police files - that still haven’t been disclosed to us.

[Dave Smith @DaveBlacklist]

After 8 years, just been told by our lawyers that the #spycops inquiry has suddenly discovered police reports on myself & other #blacklisted #union members. We still haven’t been sent the evidence: and hearings start in 10 days time.

Intentional cover up or just shambolic?

[Dave Smith @DaveBlacklist]

#Spycops and #Unions article by @AlisonSpycops published by London Hazards Centre.

For those who haven’t been paying attention - undercover police infiltrated trade unions and spied on activists who were campaigning against deaths on building sites.

[Police Spies Out of Lives @out_of_lives]

💥Check out this excellent preview of the next Inquiry hearings starting in July by @tombfowler
https://t.co/TN4eEa6qWV

[Police Spies Out of Lives @out_of_lives]

If you're following the #spycops scandal, the next set of hearings start in July. Important preparatory reading here by @tombfowler who will be covering the proceedings with us.

https://t.co/TN4eEa6qWV