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30 Apr

The #SpyCopsInquiry starts again this morning, hearing from Lord Peter Hain.
He was involved in campaigning against apartheid.
As his opening statement says:

#spycops
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"From the 1960s onwards, the international movement against the Apartheid regime in South Africa was one of the world’s largest social movements. Abhorrence at the racist and murderous regime was shared by people aroundthe globe."
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"They formed campaigns in support of those in South Africa who were struggling for change and people in Britain played a central rolein campaigning for, and eventually achieving,that change"
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29 Apr

There were lots of Portugese students in London, who were opposed to Salazar, the fascist dictator of Portugal at the time.

Organisations would send delegates to these meetings.
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She was secretary of the Dambusters Mobilising Committee and says it never occurred to her that #spycops would have attended their meetings.
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They campaigned to stop British (and other European) companies from financing or getting involved in this controversial dam-building project.
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29 Apr

This afternoon the #spycopsinquiry will hear from Christabel Gurney OBE. Her witness statement is at ucpi.org.uk/publications/f…

You can watch proceedings (with a ten minute delay) at
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First, the Inquiry checked if there were any questions for Jonathan Rosenhead. Mitting had a question for him – did he wish the Inquiry to act promptly about the miscarriage of justice that we heard about? Yes

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29 Apr

[UCPI 00000 8660] ucpi.org.uk/publications/s…
STST's first national conference took place in March 1970. Both of today's witnesses are listed as attending it.

Jonathan pointed out that the speech reported on was given by Peter Hain, who was“by no means an extreme leftist”
(we'll hear from Peter Hain himself tomorrow)

The Stop the Seventy Tour campaigners felt that it was important to hold as many demonstrations as possible, at sports grounds all over the country...

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29 Apr

The anti-apartheid activists would seek to disrupt matches and sometimes carried out pitch invasions.

(this picture is from Murrayfield in Edinburgh)

Jonathan talked about finally (“I tried several but I'm not very good at climbing fences”) getting on the pitch in Aldershot .

He pointed out that the police took photographs of them, which should have been destroyed when he and his co-arrestees were found not guilty of any charges, and made the point that the police should follow the law themselves.

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29 Apr

Rosehead explained that they had originally targeted the South African cricket team, but then realised there was a planned rugby team tour as well, so expanded their activities.

He explained that -like the Committee of 100 in the 1960s – his group used Non-Violent Direct Action (NVDA)

“We had the same philosophy or actually in a sense offering ourselves up as a sacrifice to the law to demonstrate that there were things we thought were outrageous and this was one way we could do it”

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