3 November 2020

Spycops inquiry finally opens

Around 1,000 organisations were spied on by the SDS

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10 October 2018

25 years since 50,000 marched against the far-right threat

In 1993 a mass protest demanded the HQ of the far-right BNP be shut down - with Militant, predecessot of the Socialist Party, playing a central role

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28 September 2016

Newcastle: Socialist Party defies ban to counter the far-right

Socialist Party members from Tyneside defied an outrageous ban imposed by Newcastle Unites (NU) to join a counter-demo against the far-right English Defence league on 24 September. With our Socialist Party banner and placards held high we were the most distinct group on the march.

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18 May 2016

Newcastle: countering the fascist menace

On 14 May far-right groups organised a rabble of 50, from as far afield as Scotland, for a demo and rally in Byker, the east end of Newcastle, writes Norman Hall, Gateshead Socialist Party.

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5 August 2015

Police spying: campaigners demand full disclosure

This inquiry will give an opportunity to expose the extent of political policing and step up campaigns for the right to organise and protest, free from state interference.

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2 October 2013

Activists demand full public inquiry into undercover police operations

Many of us involved in the movement in the 1990s to drive back the far-right racist British National Party (BNP) were angered but not surprised to find out the Metropolitan Police's Special Branch infiltrated our ranks, writes Lois Austin, former chair, Youth Against Racism in Europe (YRE).

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Protest outside Scotland Yard, 9.7.13, photo N Caffferky

4 September 2013

Police spies and the workers' movement

Hannah Sell examines the role and the background to police spy Peter Francis as revealed in the book Undercover: The True Story of Britain's Secret Police.

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Tower Hamlets school students striking on 9 March 1994 against racist attacks, photo by Andy walker

4 September 2013

1993: BNP racists forced off Brick Lane

Twenty years ago, on Sunday 19 September 1993, 1,000 people gathered on Brick Lane in Tower Hamlets, east London, to stop the racist, far-right British National Party (BNP) from having its regular paper sale.

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9 July 2013

Protesting against police spying

Youth against Racism in Europe supporters protested outside Scotland Yard today against the recent 'infiltration' scandal

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3 July 2013

Lobby of Scotland Yard - 9 July

Following the recent exposé of police spying on the family of Stephen Lawrence and infiltration of the YRE a lobby of Scotland Yard has been called

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Lois Austin on YRE lobby of the Home Office to close down the BNP HQ 25-6-93, photo Tim Bolwell

26 June 2013

Police dirty tricks - a threat to democratic rights

The revelations that an undercover police officer was asked to dig for 'dirt' that could discredit the family and friends of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence has caused mass revulsion.

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24 June 2013

Scandal of attempt to denigrate Lawrence family

The news that an undercover police officer tried to find out information that could discredit Stephen Lawrence's family is terrible and shocking, but unfortunately not surprising

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24 April 2013

20 years after murder of Stephen Lawrence

When mass action and class unity beat back the fascists: Twenty years ago, the black teenager Stephen Lawrence was brutally murdered by five thugs in a racist attack in Eltham, south east London...

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Youth Against Racism in Europe (YRE) and Panther platform in Welling as part of the campaign to drive the racists out after the murder of Stephen Lawrence, photo R. Newton

11 January 2012

Stephen Lawrence murder - the untold story

On 3 January 2012 Gary Dobson and David Norris were found guilty of the horrific murder of black teenager Stephen Lawrence and sentenced to life imprisonment...

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6 January 2012

Fighting racist attacks and the far-right

After 18 years two men have finally been convicted of the racist murder of Stephen Lawrence. Here we republish an article from the Socialist in 2003, written on the 10th anniversary of Stephen's death

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21 September 2011

Jobs, homes and services, not racism

On Saturday 3 September, Youth Fight For Jobs participated in the counter-demonstration against the English Defence League's (EDL) plan to intimidate the community of Tower Hamlets, writes Matt Gordon, Bristol.

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Youth against Racism in Europe protest against the BNP in 1993, photo by The Socialist

1 June 2011

18 years since Stephen Lawrence murder

We still need to fight racism... and cuts: Two men are now to stand trial for the murder of Stephen Lawrence, the black teenager who had ambitions to become an architect but was killed in a vicious racist attack in 1993, writes Onay Kasab.

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Youth Fight for Jobs, photo Sarah Mayo

16 June 2010

Tower Hamlets: Jobs, homes and services - not the racist EDL!

A victory has been scored in East London as the racist and hooligan English Defence League (EDL) has called off its plan to "hit" Tower Hamlets on Sunday 20 June, writes Paula Mitchell and Naomi Byron.

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The state, cartoon by Alan Hardman, photo Alan Hardman

17 March 2010

State infiltration - a warning to the workers' movement

Last Sunday's Observer (14 March 2010) led with a scurrilous 'exposé' of how "an officer from a secretive unit of the Metropolitan police" was "working undercover among anti-racist groups in Britain, during which he routinely engaged in violence against members of the public and uniformed policemen... "

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14 March 2010

Youth Against Racism in Europe answers disgraceful Observer 'expose'

The disgraceful article in the Observer (14 March 2010) claims to 'expose' how "an officer from a secretive unit of the Metropolitan police" was "working undercover among anti-racist groups". Lois Austin and Hannah Sell reply...

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