A few weeks ago, my old friend and comrade Ernie Tate sent me a link to
an article titled “Shag another” by Katrina Forrester that appeared in
the November 7, 2013 London Review of Books. Since it is behind a
paywall, I will include the article below.
Forrester reviews a book titled “Undercover: The True Story of Britain’s
Secret Police” by Rob Evans and Paul Lewis. Ironically, the undercover
cops belonged to a unit called SDS. In this case, it wasn’t Students for
a Democratic Society but the Special Demonstration Squad that was
charged with the duty of infiltrating the British left that, unlike the
American SDS, was deeply involved in mass actions against the war.
Maybe it would be better to say that the British left was a hybrid of
our SDS and the Vietnam antiwar coalitions that the SWP helped build.
They combined a focus on immediate withdrawal but was not averse to the
kind of street-fighting that Tariq Ali celebrated in his pretty good
memoir “Street Fighting Man”.
full:
https://louisproyect.org/2020/11/13/campaign-opposing-police-surveillance/
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