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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The politics of uncertainty
The current atmosphere of chaos at the top is no accident — Boris and his new crew of extreme ‘libertarian’ crusaders are hiding their open venality, corruption and unhinged neoliberal agenda behind a facade of incompetence, writes ALAN SIMPSON
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 government’s educational omnishambles is stealing all the headlines at the moment. It pushes political incompetence to new limits. But behind the debacle lies a bigger crime. Boris Johnson is killing parliamentary democracy faster than the pandemic is killing people.
And though Labour is immeasurably more virtuous, the party struggles to lay a glove on him.
Keir Starmer’s forensic integrity initially came as a welcome relief. But Johnson merely shrugs his shoulders and buffoons along relentlessly. The sanitised nature of today’s Parliament allowed him do so. Safe separation distances have depleted parliamentary scrutiny faster than they have emptied the green benches.
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