Protesters call for a judge-led inquiry into the use of undercover policing in 2011
LABOUR peers are seeking to remove a clause in the Spycops Bill which trade unions fear could allow state agents to commit crimes to disrupt industrial action.
If the Covert Human Intelligence Sources (CHIS) Bill is passed, undercover agents would be allowed to commit crimes “in the interests of the economic well-being of the United Kingdom.”
Trade unions argue that this could implicate aspects of legitimate union activity.
Evidence to peers from medical leaders, patient safety officials and the children’s commissioner has intensified fears that the Bill’s safeguards are inadequate, writes ADAM JAMES POLLOCK
Four decades on, the Wapping dispute stands as both a heroic act of resistance and a decisive moment in the long campaign to break trade union power. Lord JOHN HENDY KC looks back on the events of 1986
