Labour will find increases in the state pension age are unacceptable, just as cuts to the Winter Fuel Allowance, personal independence payments and universal credit are — it needs to change direction immediately, writes PCS general secretary FRAN HEATHCOTE

A RECENT article in this paper asked why there was no mass initiative to stop the war in Ukraine in Britain, comparable to the developing movement in Germany.
It is a reasonable question, to which there is a variety of partial answers.
First, there is no element in the British bourgeoisie sympathetic, for trade or political grounds, to Russia as there is in Germany; nor is there an isolationist wing of the political establishment as there is in the United States.