As Palestine Action prisoners go weeks without food, alleging dangerous neglect and detention without trial, campaigners warn that a near-total media blackout is hiding a crisis that could turn fatal – and fuel a growing wave of public anger. ELIZABETH SHORT reports
LAST May, PCS conference voted to agree that a Corbyn government is in the interest of our members.
This week, realisation of that government is closer than ever. Survation, the only pollsters to call the last general election correctly, shows Labour now at 41.3 per cent — ahead of the Tories.
If Theresa May’s “meaningful vote” falls today, it will show the Tory government cannot rule the country. Jeremy Corbyn can pursue the vote of no confidence to trigger a general election. The real people’s vote is who decides what happens next.
In part II of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY explores how witch-hunting drives took hold in the Civil Service as the cold war emerged in the wake of WWII
Ben Chacko talks to RMT leader EDDIE DEMPSEY about how the key to fixing broken Britain lies in collective sectoral bargaining, restoring unions’ ability to take solidarity strike action and bringing about the much-vaunted ‘wave of insourcing’
It is only trade union power at work that will materially improve the lot of working people as a class but without sector-wide collective bargaining and a right to take sympathetic strike action, we are hamstrung in the fight to tilt back the balance of power, argues ADRIAN WEIR



