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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Broken Britain – what happens when everything falls apart?
The self-rewarding rich fear any notion of radical change in the way that politics, government and economics works, but this is our only lifeline, warns ALAN SIMPSON
Damage inside Parks Primary School in Leicester which has been affected with sub standard reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (Raac).
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
THE roof is falling in on the British economy. For over 150 schools in England this is a literal as well as a figurative truth.
On the eve of the autumn term, schools were notified they couldn’t reopen because defective concrete in their roofs put them at risk of imminent collapse.
They were thrown into a frantic replanning of where and how teaching might take place. Parents hadn’t a clue what this might mean.
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