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UK: Blacklisting: this looks like another British establishment cover-up - Are the security services spying on anti-blacklisting unionists like me to avoid exposure of a systematic conspiracy involving the state?
11 November 2014
"The UK’s secret political police are spying on me. I know this because the Metropolitan police have refused to provide a copy of my police file. The reason? To do so “would be likely to prejudice the prevention and detection of crime”. My “crime” is being a trade unionist, campaigning to expose the scandal that led to more than 3,200 people being blacklisted by building contractors.
The police will also “neither confirm nor deny” whether the Blacklist Support Group, the organisation for which I work, is under investigation. That catch-all policy of “national security” was quoted after direct advice from the Association of Chief Police Officers. The blacklisting justice campaign now finds itself in the same situation as families of race murder victims: spied on by police who seem incapable of investigating the real criminals."
See the full article:
Blacklisting: this looks like another British establishment cover-up - Are the security services spying on anti-blacklisting unionists like me to avoid exposure of a systematic conspiracy involving the state? (Guardian, link)