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Kate Wilson arrives at the Royal Courts of Justice in London in February for her High Court hearing over undercover police relationships
by Bethany Rielly
A LAWYER representing spycops has urged the inquiry examining the long-running scandal to be wary of the “real dangers of judging 20th-century matters” by today’s standards.
The Undercover Policing Inquiry, which opened on Monday, is scrutinising the tactics of two secret units which, together, infiltrated over 1,000 political groups stretching back to 1968.
Yesterday’s session focused on the Metropolitan Police’s Special Demonstration Squad (SDS), which operated between 1968 and 2008, during which time officers stole the identities of dead children and duped activists into sexual relationships.
The Met Police's refusal to act against British nationals accused of war crimes in Gaza is a green light for Israel's genocide, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
RON JACOBS welcomes a timely homage to one of the IWW and CPUSA’s most effective orators
BEN CHACKO reports on the struggles against sexism, racism and the brutish British state that featured at Matchwomen’s Festival this year