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
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Attacks on Corbyn show SNP is running scared of losing its mojo
PEAS IN A POD: Kenny MacAskill and Nicola Sturgeon
As protests erupt over Henry Nowak’s murder, ANDREW MURRAY argues that anger is being exploited to advance a wider racist and anti-immigration agenda
CARLOS MARTINEZ explains the sound case for car manufacturing co-operation with China
The National Emergency Briefing outlines the need for urgent action to address environmental crisis, says PAUL DONOVAN, warning that there’s no time to indulge the arguments of the fossil-fuel-funded climate-change deniers
Campaigners say criticism of Labour MP Stephen Morgan’s position on Gaza has been met with police intervention and cancelled opportunities for debate. HESTER WOLFE reports
The Committee for the Defence of Iranian People’s Rights warns of escalation danger in Iran war
For all the talk of bright futures — or apocalyptic dystopias — which dominates the independence debate, the Scottish political scene is rather fond of revisiting the fights of its past.
Just this week, flamboyant SNP MP Tommy Sheppard, the founder of the Stand comedy clubs and a London Labour councillor in the 1980s, was put on the spot.
In a debate on “strengthening the union” at Westminster, the Edinburgh MP was reminded by Labour’s Ian Murray of how the SNP had voted to “bring about 18 years of Conservative government that decimated Scotland.”
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Plaid Cymru’s spokesman on health and social services MABON AP GWYNFOR, in the second article of a two-part series, argues that Labour’s contempt for voters and backward-facing approach have led to widespread mistrust in Wales
VINCE MILLS cautions over the perils and pitfalls of ‘a new left party’
While Reform poses as a workers’ party, a credible left alternative rooted in working-class communities would expose their sham — and Corbyn’s stature will be crucial to its appeal, argues CHELLEY RYAN
