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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A fatuous commitment to ‘change’ unites the Establishment
Somehow both the Tories and Labour are keeping a straight face while proclaiming themselves the parties of ‘change’ at the next election, when they offer almost the exact opposite, writes ANDREW MURRAY
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
WHEN does a crisis stop being a crisis, and when does change start to actually involve changing things?
Those are the questions arising from the round of party conferences just concluded.
The crisis, economically speaking, has been in train since the bankers’ crash of 2008. That epic smash spoke to the instability of global capitalism in a world awash with fictitious capital trying to defy gravity’s pull on the rate of profit.
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