NALGO members spotlight snoopers

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The current edition of NALGO News, magazine of the GLC NALGO Branch, takes up the fight to expose and combat police surveillance of labour movement demonNALGO members obtained the photographs displayed on this page which show TV cameras and listening apparatus in use during a march by ILEA teachers protestWe reprint below the full text of the NALGO News article, with thanks to the magazine for the supply of the 'ye view of the demonstration giant microphone to record car strations.

ing against education cuts.

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"GLC NALGO News has received photographs of plain clothes police spies on the roof of County Hall Island Block in the act of filming and tape recording the recent demonstration by the Inner London Teachers Association against the reductions in the ILEA budget. • We regard it as a serious infringement of the basic rights of trade unionists that they can no longer take part in legal and peaceful demonstrations without the fact being filmed and recorded, and presumably entered onto police records somewhere.

Delegations

Over recent months the GLC Branch of NALGO has sent delegations to a variety of marches, rallies and demonstr itions of causes which supports.

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We demand an end to this practice generally, but we are,: particularly concerned about the use of our workplace for spying on our brothers and sisters in other trade unions.

Spying " We want to know who authorised the use of the Island Block for spying. We want to know if any trade union members are required as part of their jobs to cooperate in this spying. We also want to know which political party first allowed this practice, and if the left councillors who were inside County Hall at the time, voting against the ILEA cuts; knew that their supporters outside were being filmed in this way. Police claimed that they were