Police spies infiltrated UK leftwing groups for decades
▻https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/oct/15/undercover-police-spies-infiltrated-uk-leftwing-groups-for-decades
About one-third of the total number of undercover officers embedded in political organisations that have so far been publicly identified infiltrated the #SWP, a Trotskyite party of a few thousand members that advocates the abolition of capitalism through revolutionary means.
[...] The database lists 124 groups that have been spied on by undercover #police officers since 1968.
[...] The list so far compiled, however, suggests police spies overwhelmingly monitored leftwing and progressive groups that challenged the status quo, with only three far-right groups infiltrated – the British National party, Combat 18 and the United British Alliance.
Undercover officers spied on 22 leftwing groups, 10 environmental groups, nine anti-racist campaigns and nine anarchist groups, according to the database.
They also spied on campaigns against apartheid, the arms trade, nuclear weapons and the monarchy, as well as trade unions. Among those spied on were 16 campaigns run by families or their supporters seeking justice over alleged police misconduct.