A Review of Aziz Choudry (ed.), Activists and the Surveillance State: Learning from Repression, Pluto Press, 2019. 264 pp. £29.00 (PB). ISBN: 978 0 7453 3780 7 “So what is the purpose of undercover policing? It has not been successful in the sense of traditional policing purposes: keeping the Queen’s peace, maintaining law and order or securing arrests and convictions” (Apple, 2019: p. 185). It is now widely known that between 1968 and 2011 the UK based Special Demonstratio