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 transmogrification from Butcher of Sabra to 'a man of peace'
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
Did somebody say something? No?
Sorry, it's just that this column thought it had been suffering problems with its hearing of late. A kind of all-encompassing deafness followed by an annoying ringing in the ears that builds up to intolerable levels.
Then it realised that it was just the sound of blatant self-censorship by the bold members of the fourth estate quickly followed by the usual execrably hagiographic revisionism and the sound of thousands of eyes being nonchalantly averted from the glaring truth.
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