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Tag Archives: Special Branch
PW Botha, police spies, and the South African Embassy Picket Campaign 1984
In June 1984, President PW Botha of South Africa was expected in Britain for talks with Margaret Thatcher. His tour of Europe that summer was intended to promote ‘constructive engagement’ with the apartheid regime (rather than sanctions) and stave of … Continue reading
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Tagged Anti-Apartheid Movement, Camden Council, City of London Anti-Apartheid Group, defend the right to protest, Jeremy Corbyn, Margaret Thatcher, Metropolitan Police, police infiltration, PW Botha, Richard Balfe MEP, SAEPC, South African Embassy, South African Embassy Picket Campaign, Special Branch, Special Demonstration Squad, Stuart Holland MP, Tony Banks MP, Vienna Convention (1961)
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Surveillance of anti-apartheid activists revealed
After the exposure of long-term police infiltration of environmental and anti-capitalist activist networks over the last couple of years, the idea that the British police monitored anti-apartheid activists in the 1980s is hardly a surprise. However, two publications from March … Continue reading
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