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PAGE 11 FEATURE: THE US WANTS REAL CHANGE – THE LEFT MUST MAKE IT HAPPEN for Peace and Socialism £1.20 Wednesday April 21 2021 Proudly owned by our readers | Incorporating the Daily Worker | Est 1930 | morningstaronline.co.uk SPYCOPS WERE n NEWS ‘ENCOURAGED’ Ex-Tory candidate in fresh ‘cronyism’ row THE government could face legal action after ex-Tory parliamentary candidate Samir Jassal was revealed as the contact for a £100 million PPE deal made last year. TO SLEEP WITH Turn to page 5 n WORLD Chad president ‘dies after fighting rebels’ THE central African leader THEIR TARGETS was killed in battle with insurgents, the army said, Activist says top Met cops knew o!cer was intimate with her hours after his election win. Turn to page 6 by Bethany Rielly She claims that senior police were Mr Kennedy had recorded the activ- sexual relationship with Ms Wilson. aware of her relationship with Mr ist as his next of kin, Ms Kilroy said, Mr Kennedy had sexual relationships Kennedy, which she says was “part and recorded being at her house “day with as many as 10 other women during SENIOR Met Police o!cers “encouraged of a practice of permitting under- after day.” She said it was “totally his deployment. or tolerated” undercover cops having cover o!cers … to enter into sexual implausible” that his superiors did not The case comes as the Under- sexual relationships with their targets, relationships.” know about the deception. cover Policing Inquiry, investigating a tribunal heard yesterday. Opening her case before the Inves- The lawyer argued that a “culture of abuses by o!cers in two secret police Kate Wilson, a green activist duped tigatory Powers Tribunal at the Royal tolerance” within the National Public units, resumes this week after a into a relationship with a spycop, is Courts of Justice in central London yes- Order Intelligence Unit, in which Mr five-month pause. suing the force as the latest step in her terday, Ms Wilson’s lawyer Charlotte Kennedy served, and its sister unit, the Blacklist Support Group secretary 10-year battle for the truth. Kilroy QC said: “Mark’s supervisors Special Demonstration Squad, allowed Dave Smith, a core participant in the Her nearly two-year relationship must have realised that he would be o!cers to routinely deceive women inquiry, said that Ms Wilson “is an with Mark Kennedy began in 2003, unable to maintain [his fake identity] into sexual relationships. absolute inspiration.” without her knowing that he was a successfully without having been seen Police have admitted that Mr Ken- “Her 10-year legal battle, and the police spy sent to gather intelligence to enter into a romantic relationship. nedy’s immediate o!cer, who he was activist-led spycops campaign that on her and the environmental groups It would have appeared suspicious.” in contact with from 2003 to 2010, was arose out of it, has uncovered more n FOOTBALL she was campaigning with. She said it was evident from logs aware that the two had a personal rela- about undercover political police In 2010 she found out that her kept by Mr Kennedy during his deploy- tionship and “ought to have realised it in the UK than the public inquiry New league sparks ex-partner was an undercover ment that he and Ms Wilson were in an was sexual.” will ever disclose.” police o!cer, who at the time they intimate relationship, due to the “sheer Ms Wilson is suing both the Met Yesterday it was announced that a fan-ownership calls were together had been married density of contact” between them. and the National Police Chiefs Coun- subsequent phase of the inquiry, which with children. The weekly logs contained record- cil (NPCC) for “egregious and serious had been due to start in October, will SCOTTISH MPs join calls In submissions to support her case, ings of political and social activities violations” of her human rights. be delayed by six months “due to the for reform in the wake of Ms Wilson argues that there was “wide- and were shared by Mr Kennedy with The force and the NPCC have amount of work involved” in allowing the European Super League, spread indi"erence, or express or tacit his superiors. They are among the doc- accepted that Mr Kennedy’s actions one extra person to participate, accord- saying that the sport must encouragement” towards undercover uments that the Met has been forced amount to a breach of her rights, ing to an o!cial statement. not be owned by “a cartel of o!cers beginning intimate relation- to disclose to Ms Wilson during her but deny that senior o!cers knew [email protected] billionaires at the top.” ships while they were deployed. long-running legal battle. or suspected that he was in a Feature: p8 Turn to page 16 has kindly provided today’s pdf edition Unite the union free to all delegates to the Scottish Congress Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk Wednesday morningstaronline 2 April 21 2021 news @m_star_online #STUC21 124TH STUC ANNUAL CONGRESS n HOLYROOD ELECTIONS n INEQUALITY ‘We cannot FOYER: POLITICIANS MUST PAY and must not return to normal’ HEED TO A PEOPLE’S RECOVERY TACKLING inequality and child poverty must be a focus STUC urges priority for reform of care sector, action on pay and green jobs investment as SNP and Labour set out plans for politicians and the trade union movement, delegates by Niall Christie national care service and a The calls came after Mr Sarwar backed trade demanded during an STUC Scotland editor sustainable recovery from speeches by both SNP leader union demands for increased debate session yesterday. coronavirus. Nicola Sturgeon and Scottish pay for public-sector work- Delegates condemned the STUC general secretary Labour leader Anas Sarwar ers, pledging a national job- unacceptably high levels of SCOTLAND’S most senior trade Roz Foyer reiterated the trade during the second day of creation scheme. poverty and inequality in Scot- unionist has laid out workers’ union movement’s calls for the STUC conference yesterday. He also committed to a land, with those representing demands ahead of May’s Scot- transformative policies from The First Minister claimed national care service built on minority groups underlining tish Parliament elections, Holyrood’s next government, that the SNP would publish a quality of service and reward that we “we cannot, and must including demands for a laying out the need for a 10-year strategy for “economic for social care sta", not profit. not, return to normal.” national recovery after the transformation” within six Ms Foyer welcomed commit- Stella Rooney of the STUC pandemic. months of the election, which ments from both parties on youth committee highlighted would set out the steps “to key-worker pay, the care sec- the financial challenges fac- deliver a green economic tor, and on tackling fire-and- ing young people in Scotland, recovery and support new rehire policies by bosses, but particularly through the pan- green jobs.” said that politicians must do demic. Ms Sturgeon also said more to improve the lives of Nicola Fisher of teaching that her government working people. union EIS said: “We lived in a would push West- “We know the economic precarious and unequal society, minster on the use recovery will be challenging; STRATEGY: First Minister and had a precarious world of of fire-and-rehire we need new ideas that will Nicola Sturgeon work well before Covid. It is tactics and for make a real di"erence to work- unacceptable and not good full control of ing people, will give them job tive bargaining, pay and trade enough.” employment security and a future,” she said. union representation will drive Musicians Union Scotland rights. “We expect the next govern- profiteers from the sector. committee member high- ment of Scotland to deliver “A national recovery needs to lighted the impact the corona- urgent reform of care, take be based on support for work- virus pandemic has had on the CHALLENGE: action on pay and to match ing people across Scotland, and arts, saying the industry “has STUC general the promise of a green recovery our people’s recovery provides been let down” by the West- secretary Roz with the scale of investment we the framework to change our minster government. Foyer need. economy, to redistribute wealth The STUC reported an “Trade unions have shifted and tackle the inequalities in increase in a#liated member- the conversation on social care, our society. ship over the past year, with making sure it is now top of the “We will continue to demand the Pharmacists’ Defence Asso- political agenda. We know that that our elected representatives ciation union and its 32,000 a radical overhaul of the sec- deliver for working people.” members now a#liated to the tor is needed, and only collec- [email protected] congress. n SHOCK REPORT Workers going hungry: union calls for a legal right to food by Niall Christie worker told the study he was Sarah Woolley said: “Our Scotland editor stuck on a minimum-wage report highlights the shame- zero-hours contract, which ful truth of food poverty in has led to “a very di"cult the food industry. A SHOCKING new study has and unhealthy situation at “No-one should go with- suggested almost one in five home.” out food in the sixth-richest food workers have gone The findings were unveiled country in the world, yet, hungry because of a lack of at an STUC congress fringe shamefully, too many food money during the pandemic. event calling for new “right workers are struggling to The Right to Food report, earn enough to purchase published by the Bakers, the very food they produce.