[PDF file]: […] of how far the Secret State had become involved in the dispute. It ran covert operations against NUM members and on occasion committed murder.18 It used electronic surveillance by GCHQ and employed a network of spies and informers, some in the heart of the mining communities.19 These informers (whose identities would be at risk […]
[…] of how far the Secret State had become involved in the dispute. It ran covert operations against NUM members and on occasion committed murder.18 It used electronic surveillance by GCHQ and employed a network of spies and informers, some in the heart of the mining communities.19 These informers (whose identities would be at risk […]
[PDF file]: […] of the Communist Party of Britain and Class War’ (hence the emphasis) and that he would seem to have been careful not to use the term ‘ surveillance’. What is also immediately obvious is that any decision to have ‘closed down the study of the Communist Party of Britain and Class War’ would not […]
[PDF file]: […] authoritarian rule of a class of wholly corrupt super rich oligarchs. One interesting point he makes is that even after the collapse of Communism, ‘the level of surveillance in Russia had not eased’. (pp. 69-70) And, of course, Vladimir Putin was to take control of the country by the end of the century. This […]
