6 November 2020

Socialists, including Labour MP, spied on by police and security services

Nearly six years after it was set up the Undercover Policing Inquiry has finally begun, albeit in an extremely limited and inadequate way

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13 November 2019

Trade union conference to force secret police disclosure

For decades, trade unionists, shop stewards and socialists suspected there was an active blacklist and that 'spycops' infiltrated trade unions.

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20 August 2018

PCS: the real issues at stake

The dispute within the left of Britain's largest civil service union raises key issues for the whole labour movement. Above all, the need for democratic, lay-member control of fighting trade unions.

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15 May 2018

PCS conference 2018: building on the union's militant record

An interview with Socialist Party member Chris Baugh - three times elected PCS assistant general secretary - who will again be seeking the support of Left Unity to be its candidate in next year's election.

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17 May 2017

Increased majority for Democracy Alliance

The PCS Democracy Alliance has secured an increased majority in the PCS elections.

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21 March 2017

CPSA to PCS: Fighting the 'Moderates' and building a fighting union

Socialists like John Macreadie worked to build a fighting campaigning civil service trade union

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14 March 2017

State surveillance of unions: PCS assistant head demands inquiry

Secret government files released under the 30-year rule show that Margaret Thatcher's government directly meddled in the internal affairs of civil servants' union CPSA, the predecessor of the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union.

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