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LABOUR’S Hilary Benn was criticised yesterday after renewing his call for British intervention in Syria — in a speech at a peace forum.
The shadow foreign secretary has already said he supports air strikes if they are approved by the UN security council.
Now he has suggested he would support British action against the Islamic State group in Syria even if it was vetoed by any of the other four permanent countries on the council.
PCS general secretary FRAN HEATHCOTE explains why opposing war is inseparable from defending jobs, wages and public services – and why readers should come to the London Peace Conference on Saturday June 20
DIANE ABBOTT exposes Keir Starmer's doublespeak on Britain’s involvement in the Iran war but takes heart from the growing organisation of the opposition to it
ALEX HALL follows the battered fortunes of Syria, a multi-ethnic country caught in the crossfire of competing imperialist interests
