Undercover Policing Inquiry Takes Evidence from
RCPB(ML)
The Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI) was established in
2015 to investigate and report on undercover political policing operations
conducted by English and Welsh police forces in their entirety since 1968. Its
terms of reference also include providing recommendations for the future. It is
also known as the Mitting Inquiry after its Chair, retired judge Sir John
Mitting.
Tranche 2, covering the period 1983-1992, began its hearings
on July 1, 2024, and is examining the activities, crimes and conduct of the
undercover officers, the authorisation and oversight of their activities, and
the impact on individuals, political groups, workers' organisations and
communities targeted by these operations.
On Wednesday, July 10, from 10.30am to 4.00pm, Michael Chant
of the Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist) is to give
evidence on the Party's experience of the state's attempts to subvert and
collect information on its activities in the years 1981-1983.
RCPB(ML)'s stand is that the state must be held accountable
for its crimes, and that the ongoing surveillance by political police of the
political discourse and assembly of the polity is completely unacceptable,
whether the pretext be that of national security, defence of parliamentary
democracy, the threat of “terrorism”, or opposition to
“extremist ideologies”, by way of definitions set by the state.
For the introductory article by the Public Interest Law
Centre (PILC), see: News • Public
Interest Law Centre (pilc.org.uk)
For the UCPI webpage for the July 10 hearing, see: UCPI
Evidence Hearings:
Tranche
2 (Phase 1) | Day 6 - Undercover Policing Inquiry
Though their previous statements, the PILC has been able to
expose some of the crimes of the police and the undercover operations. Their
previous statements have been provided in a volume here:
https://www.pilc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/20230719-UCPI-PILC-Report.pdf
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