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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Corbynistas must show resolve after NEC defeat
The unrelenting campaign to smear Corbyn must be met with an unwavering commitment to keeping him as leader, says JOHN HAYLETT
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
AND YET, as legend has Galileo observing defiantly, after being obliged by the Catholic Church to disavow, on pain of death, his heretical theory that the Earth orbits the Sun, “still it turns.”
Jeremy Corbyn has not been condemned to lifelong house arrest for maintaining his position that the “accepted international” definition of anti-semitism — in reality, adopted to an extent by just 31 of the world’s 195 states — is more about tempering criticism of Israel than combating hatred of Jews.
His position as Labour leader has, however, been weakened by the failure of the party national executive committee (NEC) to back his principled stance.
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