Black Book of the Political Police in Britain

Content warning: includes accounts of the torture of Irish prisoners by the British state.

A PIG publication.

This pamphlet is an attempt to share what knowledge people have accumulated over the last couple of years of the political police; who they are, how they work, and how they can be beaten.

The facts that we've discovered are not in fact SURPRISING or OUTRAGEOUS. In revolutionary times we expect the counterrevolution to get itself organised. The point for us is that we should KNOW THE ENEMY, BE PREPARED, and ORGANISE to beat them.

Contents

• Introduction

• Portrait of a Pig
  Introducing Roy Creamer Arch Politico of New Scotland Yard

• Raids & Raiders
  The very-early-in-the-morning-mob, and other travesties of justice

• Bugs & Buggers
  The way they keep tabs on us, with a little help from the GPO PLUS... Dynamic new improved methods of surveillance in our homes shortly

• Factory Spies Ltd
  First it was 'music while you work' now they've installed TV

• Security Cares
  Capitalism's private police force - protection rackets made legal and even more profitable

• Demonstrations
  When we (and the S. B.'s) come out on the streets and the busts that follow. Plus the low down on the Snatch Punch & Grab Squad

• Press and Police
  Reds-under-the-bed scaremongering by our 'free' press, and other unbiased stories

• Underground
  How Big Brother gags his critics

• Black Groups
  White-law ain't just in Ireland

• War in Ireland
  There today, here tomorrow: the war has started, Bogside, Clydeside - we're all on the ANGRY side

• Things to come
  A step in the right direction; counter insurgency for you and me

• Rule of Law
  Laws to be saved for a rainy day. The war is a class war-the law is class law

• a Strategy for Survival
  The point for us is that we should KNOW THE ENEMY, BE PREPARED, & ORGANISE to beat them