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MINISTERS should order a public inquiry into police collusion with construction industry blacklisting, trade unionists demanded yesterday, as new evidence related to the 30-year scandal emerged.
The official undercover policing inquiry recently disclosed that one former officer with the cover name “Dick Epps,” who spied on left-wing campaigns from 1969-1972, went on to work in the Metropolitan Police’s industrial intelligence section.
A government raid in 2009 revealed that thousands of construction workers had been blacklisted by a cartel of Britain’s largest building firms for their trade union activities.
The Met Police's refusal to act against British nationals accused of war crimes in Gaza is a green light for Israel's genocide, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
In part II of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY explores how witch-hunting drives took hold in the Civil Service as the cold war emerged in the wake of WWII
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