Interview Feature
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Since 2011, disturbing revelations have come to light of police spies deceiving women into intimate relationships to spy on their legitimate campaigns. Journalists and activists have for years been calling for justice and transparency PHOTO by Guy Smallman
A LONG fought-for public inquiry into undercover policing is underway and at the same time the so-called Spy Cops Bill is being debated in Parliament. On pages 33 and 34, historian and NEU trustee Bernard Regan explores the recent history of spying on teachers, trade unionists and justice campaigners. While on page 35, Alison (not her real name) tells 32
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Educate why the traumatic experience of being deceived into having an intimate relationship with a police spy should concern us all. And on page 50, Harriet Wistrich, director of the Centre for Women’s Justice, explains the importance of her successful legal battle for an apology and compensation for eight of the women who were spied on.
