Our collective message was clear - We are done with stonewalling and whitewashes.
Last Friday - The Met Police finally officially confirmed that
Special Branch and other police were involved in the Blacklisting of
construction workers. The following disclosures have now been widely
reported in the worlds news. Blacklisted workers appeared and our
supporters appeared on TV and radio throughout the day. This has been 6
years going back to 2012 since we first raised it through our QC Imran
Khan through the IPCC.
Blacklist Support Group would like to have it placed on
record our appreciation for all the activists, lawyers, investigative
journalists, researchers, trade unionists and politicians who have
worked alongside us and whose efforts have finally forced the Met Police
to make these admissions.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-435
After the revelations about police collusion in blacklisting,
Unite the Union are now considering opening new legal proceedings
against the Met Police. Watch this space
With the above in mind, we ask supporters to highlight the Met
Police admission to their local elected Police Commissioner, many of
whom are Labour politicians and run our Police Forces. We suggest that
our supporters send letters using the text below as a standard template
making amendments as you see fit:
Blacklist Support Group open letter to our Police Commissioner’s over police collusion and spying.
The Blacklist Support Group notes the recent and most shocking disclosures and statement of the Metropolitan Police regarding the undercover policing scandal. It is with huge dismay that it has taken 6 years for the Metropolitan Police to admit that police supplied information to the unlawful construction blacklist. And only then after our legal representatives complained to the IPCC back in 2012.
Our
attention must now turn to the solutions. Aside from any legal action
against these political policing units, we call upon Police
Commissioners to now come out in full support of those who suffered as a
consequence of these clandestine anti-democratic operations.
We therefore ask the Police Commissioners to go on record and condemn the actions of the undercover police units spying on trade unions unreservedly and call for these covert political policing units that spy on legal democratic political campaigns should be disbanded immediately.
We therefore ask the Police Commissioners to go on record and condemn the actions of the undercover police units spying on trade unions unreservedly and call for these covert political policing units that spy on legal democratic political campaigns should be disbanded immediately.
Roy Bentham co-Secretary of the BSG added:
'This
culture of impunity has to end. As someone who seen it as a
Hillsborough survivor it’s appalling it still appears to be rife within
our police forces. As Labour politicians, our commissioners also have a duty to serve the people who voted them in. A
statement on denouncing these black ops is surely the bare minimum and
we need promises of transparency going forward as that is the only way
to win our trust back as ordinary working class citizens'
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