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UK: GRUNWICKS: Covert police spied on strikers and their supporters in iconic dispute

13 April 2016

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"A police undercover unit obtained intelligence on the tactics of the strikers and their supporters in the seminal Grunwick dispute... One of these could be a dispute that centred on a photo-processing factory in north-west London called Grunwick. It was one of the most iconic industrial disputes since the Second World War.

Now evidence has emerged to show how the controversial Metropolitan police undercover unit, the Special Demonstration Squad (SDS), obtained inside information about the tactics and movements of the strikers and their supporters. Two former policemen have described the intelligence as being important at a time when the Met was struggling to police the dispute."

See the article: Covert police spied on strikers and their supporters in iconic dispute (Guardian, link)

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