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Demonstrators outside the Royal Courts of Justice, London, October 3, 2018
THE next stage of the public inquiry into the shocking actions of undercover officers who infiltrated hundreds of left-wing groups resumed today.
Opening statements were made on the activities of the now-disbanded Special Demonstration Squad (SDS) between 1983 and 1992.
Testimonies will be heard over the next weeks from those targeted including activists from the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), London Greenpeace, Freedom Press, and the Socialist Workers Party.
The Home Secretary’s recent letter suggests the Labour government may finally deliver on its nine-year manifesto commitment, writes KATE FLANNERY, but we must move quickly: as recently as 2024 Northumbria police destroyed miners’ strike documents
BEN CHACKO reports on the struggles against sexism, racism and the brutish British state that featured at Matchwomen’s Festival this year
SOLOMON HUGHES explains how the PM is channelling the spirit of Reagan and Thatcher with a ‘two-tier’ nuclear deterrent, whose Greenham Common predecessor was eventually fought off by a bunch of ‘punks and crazies’
To quell the public anger and silence the far right, Labour has rushed out a report so that it can launch a National Inquiry — ANN CZERNIK examines Baroness Casey’s incendiary audit and finds fatal flaws that fail to 'draw a line' under the scandal as hoped