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MI5 note for liaison file reporting meeting between DCI Butler, DI HN68 and F6 to discuss SDS officers' access to SWP HQ, held at MI5 office on 20 Oct 1981
Report on a meeting between the People’s Campaign for Jobs and the Right to Work Campaign finalising demo at the Tory conference in Blackpool, held at Community Press Centre, Lancaster Rd, Preston on 26 Sept 1981
MI5 note for liaison file after meeting between DCI Butler, HN68 and F6 to confirm the list of officers and express MI5's desire for an officer in the Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (M-L) and the SWP membership records
Report on routine meeting of Hackney Legal Defence Committee to monitor court cases involving Black people, held at Rectory Road Family Centre N16 on 24 Sept 1981, inc minutes of meeting on 18 Sept 1981 (attached)
Report on personal details of a couple that work for the SWP - member of the Central Committee and the full-time organiser in the industrial department - who have split up and now live separately
Report on personal and political details of a 16 year old National Committee member of the National Union of School Students and contributor to SWP's youth publication 'Rebel'
MI5 note for liaison file reporting meeting between DCI Butler and F6 to discuss new deployments of HN19 and HN65, and introduce DS Charles (snu), held at SDS offices on 16 Dec 1981
Report on meeting of East London Troops Out Movement, held at Hackney Trades and Labour Club E8 on 15 Sept 1981, inc Steering Committee Minutes (attached)
Report enclosing a letter publicising a labour movement conference 'Ireland: Time for Tory Policies to Go' called by the Labour Committee on Ireland and the Committee for Withdrawal from Ireland, to be held at Regent Street Cinema on 28 Nov 1981
Report submitting minutes of a meeting of London H Block/Armagh Committee on 28 Aug 1981 (attached) and providing info on a planned visit to London of 100 relatives of Republican hunger strikers
Report on internal conference of the Revolutionary Communist Tendency (very detailed, 10 pages + appendices), held at Metropolitan Cottages, Balls Pond Road N1 on 23-25 May 1981
Report on a national conference of Workers Against Racism/ Revolutionary Communist Party titled 'Workers Defence Takes Off', held at Brady’s Club E1 on 18 July 1981
Report on secret Anti-Nazi League meeting to plan for anti-National Front demo in Fulham on 30 Aug, held at Harold Laski House (Fulham Labour Party HQ), Fulham Road SW6 on 17 Aug 1981, inc leaflet for the demo (attached)
Report on public meeting of the Winston Rose Action Committee to call for a public inquiry into Rose’s death in custody, held at Ross-Wyld Hall, Church Hill E17 on 10 Aug 1981, inc campaign leaflet (attached)
MI5 note for liaison file reporting meeting between DCI Butler, DI HN68 and MI5 where MI5 supplied info on the Revolutionary Communist Party and other groups, held at MI5 offices on 11 Aug 1981
Report on meeting to plan the Right to Work march and its culmination at the Tory conference in Blackpool on 16 Oct, held at SWP HQ, Reading Lane E8 on 5 Aug 1981
MI5 Loose Minute enclosing briefs prepared ahead of meeting Commissioner Sir David McNee and Mr Kelland on how MI5 works with the Special Branch and the SDS in particular
Report on SWP public meeting 'From Riot to Revolution', held at Stockwell Hall SW9 then the New Queen's Head pub on 16 July 1981, inc leaflets for the event and for the Right to Work march (attached)
MI5 Note for File reporting meeting between DCI Butler and F6 to discuss exchange of info, Butler's promotion to CI and high standard of SDS officer reports, held at the SDS office on 17 July 1981
Report on demo in opposition to the National Front organised by Anti-Nazi League, held at Islington Green on 12 July 1981, inc leaflet given out at the rally 'Voice of the Youth' by Communist Youth Union of Britain (attached)
Report that Hackney Anti-Nazi League have organised a benefit event in aid of New Cross Massacre Action Committee, to be held at Abney Church Hall, Stoke Newington Church St on 18 July 1981
Home Office letter on upcoming meeting between the Home Secretary and Director General of MI5 enclosing copy of MI5 report ‘Subversive Aspects of Racialist Activity’
Report on meeting of Kilburn and Cricklewood SWP inc a talk encouraging entryism into CND, held at West Hampstead Community Centre, Mill Lane NW6 on 24 June 1981
Report on a day-school on ‘Women and Socialism’ questioning the validity of Women's Voice, held by Haringey and Enfield District Socialist Workers Party, held at the Labour Party Rooms, Stuart Crescent N22 on 20 June 1981
Report on the completion of construction of a computer at SWP National Office and enclosing copy of a print-out showing weekly distribution of 'Socialist Worker' (attached)
Report submitting SWP restricted weekly internal information sheet of 23 June 1981 inc discussion of mobilisation to attend Northern Carnival in Leeds (attached)
Collected documents on members of Troops Out Movement arrested at a ‘Beating the Retreat’ event at Horseguards Parade on 11 June 1981 and prosecuted, inc minute sheet
Special Branch report on occupation of Trade Union Congress headquarters by several people protesting against the TUC’s silence on Republican hunger strikers, held at TUC HQ in Great Russell St WC1 on 28 May 1981
MI5 note for liaison file reporting meeting between SDS and F6 inc MI5 wanting info on specific individuals thought to be in the SWP, held at SDS offices on 13 May 1981
MI5 report for the Home Secretary, ‘Subversive Involvement in the Brixton Riots and their Aftermath’ with cover letter from Phillips (Home Office) (report attached)
Report on public meeting held by East London Workers Against Racism in support of their candidate in the Greater London Council elections, held at Toynbee Hall on 16 April 1981
MI5 note for file reporting meeting between DI Butler, DI HN68 and F6 to discuss info requests and update on SDS personnel, held in F6 office on 7 April 1981
Report on Anti-Nazi League demo and leafleting against National Front presence, held near West Ham football ground, Green St E4 on 4 April 1981, inc copy of 'support the Hammers not the Nazis' leaflet (attached)
Report submitting SWP internal document informing Branch/District SWP organisers of a new method of recording paper sales, dated 8 April 1981 (attached)
Report on upcoming 'People's March for Jobs' organised by NE Region of Trade Union Congress, to go from Liverpool to London on 1-30 May 1981, inc leaflet and internal organisation docs (attached)
Report on a conference of all London Labour Parties to discuss the Campaign Against Racist Law, held at Brabant Rd Community Centre N22 on 29 March 1981, inc meeting agenda and resolution, and campaign leaflet (attached)
Report on the 1981 National Conference of the Anti-Nazi League, held at Central London Polytechnic on 28 March 1981, inc ANL Organisers report and conference declaration (attached)
Report listing new recruits to the Socialist Workers Students Organisation and the National Union of School Students, inc NUSS leaflets and campaign materials (attached)
Report on a meeting of East London Workers Against Racism planning their campaign in the upcoming Council elections, held at the Dalston Lane Trades Club on 21 March 1981, inc 'Vote ELWAR' leaflet (attached)
Report on the personl political, marital and accommodation details a person who is involved in the League for Socialist Action, North London Campaign Against Racist Laws and his constituency Labour Party
Report on Waltham Forest District SWP holding its weekly sale of Socialist Worker, held at Walthamstow High Street on 21 March 1981 with a high turnout to counter National Front presence, then moving on to Labour Party Young Socialists rally against unemp
Report listing participants in the 1980 Right to Work Campaign march rom Port Talbot to London, culminating in march to Brighton to picket the Conservative Paryy conference (list wholly redacted)