Brazilian workers are calling for internationalist brigades to defend Venezuela from US attack, reports WT WHITNEY JR
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Civil servants are joining this wave of action
With PCS members themselves facing poverty due to poor pay and the cost-of-living crisis, industrial action was inevitable — it’s time to link up our struggles, writes LYNN HENDERSON
The US reprisal of global nuclear proliferation, threatening a new arms race, could push the world to the brink of annihilation, warns SOPHIE BOLT of CND
SCIENCE AND SOCIETY ask how an 80-tonne whale that lives 200 years is so resistant to cancer
October 2025 was another Black History Month. Has Britain learned anything – or are we going backwards, asks CLAUDIA WEBBE
Real action is needed to make sure tragedies like that at Huntingdon never happen again. TSSA leader MARYAM ESLAMDOUST suggests some practical, achievable steps to be taken
VINCE MILLS sizes up the problems facing Your Party north of the border as it grapples with a range of policies, including its approach to Scottish independence
MARK SERWOTKA issues a rallying call to those committed to building a new radical socialist party of the working class to commit to real democracy, not imaginary or performative gestures
THE turmoil in the Tory Party continues, but Liz Truss’s government stands united and resolute on capping Civil Service pay at just 2 per cent when the cost of living is escalating out of control.
In August, a PCS survey found that one in 12 members working in the Civil Service and related bodies are using foodbanks.
Statements from union members voting yes to strike action in the current PCS statutory ballot catalogue harrowing accounts of government workers just trying to make ends meet — and real worries about the cost-of-living crisis to come.
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