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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Is Reeves doing a Brown?
Is the shadow chancellor’s pledge to ‘not tax the rich’ just a ruse to get into office, which will then be reversed? SOLOMON HUGHES looks to a public spending turnaround in 1998 for possible evidence
Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves
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
WILL Labour be better than advertised? “Soft left” supporters of Sir Keir Starmer are trying to reassure themselves that Labour’s bleak promises to do very little redistribution or reform are just a ruse: Labour is trying to sneak into government past the right-wing press and reactionary voters by adopting a low profile.
Once elected, they hope Rachel Reeves will say: “We’ve looked at the books, and it looks like we will have to tax the rich after all.”
Reeves’s recent announcement in the Telegraph that she has torn up her own former commitment to a “wealth tax” prompted another round of “she’s only saying that to get elected and doesn’t mean it” from the soft left.
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