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Protesters blockade New Scotland Yard in 2011 demanding a judge-led inquiry into the use of undercover policing
UNITE has welcomed what it called the “unmasking” of former spycop “Carlo Neri” whose real name is now alleged to be Carlo Soracchi.
Britain’s largest trade union made the statement after former BBC journalist Michael Gillard broke the news on Twitter earlier this week.
So-called Carlo Neri spent five years as an undercover police officer between 2001 and 2006 infiltrating anti-fascist groups, unions and the Socialist Party.
HENRY FOWLER, assistant general secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions (GFTU), reports on Day 2 from the GFTU’s residential Summer School at the Workers’ Retreat, Quorn Grange Hotel
Enduring myths blame print unions for their own destruction – but TONY BURKE argues that the Wapping dispute was a calculated assault by Murdoch on organised labour, which reshaped Britain’s media landscape and casts a long shadow over trade union rights today
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