How the Police Try to Suppress Protest
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Köp båda 2 för 775 krBrilliantly readable, it carries you with it every step of the way. One forgets how frightening authority is and the detail on police behaviour is dreadfully shocking and distressing. It never assumes what you might believe or what you might already know and at the end leaves the reader in no doubt as to what has happened in this country. -- Emma Thompson, actor and activist Matt Foot and Morag Livingstone have carefully documented the organised violence and secret police tactics used to attack trade unionists and others who have exercised their right to protest in Britain since the early 1980s. They uncover the way that successive Home secretaries and chief police officers have covertly worked together, deploying and legalising draconian tactics to defend vested interests from active legitimate dissent. If you want to know the dark history that has led us to the current police bill and to understand how the powers it contains would be used, I recommend that you read this book. -- Sharon Graham, Unite the union general secretary Meticulously details violent state suppression in the protection of capital; backed by a propaganda machine. Exposed is the unofficial but permanent government with sharp attention to every detail. This is a story of how justice has been repeatedly stolen in this ruthless war against the right to protest. Read every word because you are holding history in your hands. Our history -- Lowkey Foot and Livingstone have done a magnificent job of intertwining analysis of the legal system with history, showing us how the thing we call 'the law' morphs with what those in charge of the justice system want it to do. This is a great piece of bottom-up history because the authors write in sympathy and solidarity about what it's been like in recent times to be a protestor on the receiving end of these changes -- Michael Rosen Foot and Livingstone show without a shadow of doubt that the suppression of protest over the past 40 years is essentially a strategic choice made by the elite in the neoliberal era. -- Adrian Weir * Morning Star * When you read Charged, you will see ours is one of many struggles, past and present. -- Chris Peace * Tribune * An important study of how history influences the present. -- Kirsty Brimelow QC * The Times * Timely and important. -- Chris Nineham * Counterfire *
Matt Foot is a criminal defence solicitor, he specialises in representing protestors and victims of miscarriages of justice. As a campaigning lawyer he co-founded Justice Alliance to protect legal aid and Asbo Concern. He has also written in the Guardian and the London Review of Books. Morag Livingstone is an award winning documentary filmmaker, writer and internationally published author. She is co-author of two bestselling narrative non-fiction books 'Hackney Child' and 'Tainted Love'. A lecturer and tutor in photojournalism, moving image and storytelling.
Foreword: Michael Mansfield QC Introduction: Secrets and Lies PART 1: Maggie Thatcher's Bootboys 1. The Guinea Pig: The Messenger Printers, Warrington 1983 2. Maggie's UK War: The Miners, Orgreave 1984 3. Boot Boys in the Beanfield: Battle of Stonehenge 1985 4. Murdoch's Paper Boys: Wapping 1987 5. The Tinderbox: Anti-Poll Tax Protest 1990 PART 2: Major - Back to Basics 6. The Trap: Welling Anti-Racist Protest 1993 7. Succession of Repetitive Beats: Battle of Park Lane Criminal Justice Act 1994 PART 3: New Labour - Tough on Crime 8. The Commissioner's Kettle: May Day Protest 2001 9. Barriers to protest: G8 Summit Gleneagles 2005 10. The MP's Kettle: G20 Protest 2009 PART 4: Austerity Justice 11. Charged: Student Fee Protest 2010 12. State of Play Acknowledgements Endnotes Index