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
Christ on a bike! Are these elections not over yet?
I know it’s important, but for God’s sake you can barely get through your front door at night for all the canvassers and flyers for people you’ve never heard of and have no interest in meeting.
It’s like being under siege from a particularly annoying branch of the Jehovah’s Witnesses.
As Scotland heads to the polls, the main parties offer variations on the same script, says MATT KERR
Holding office in local government is a poisoned chalice for a party that bases its electoral appeal around issues where it has no power whatsoever, argues NICK WRIGHT
The Gala’s core message of working-class solidarity offers renewed hope and provides the antidote to the anti-worker policies of Reform UK, argues IAN LAVERY MP
VINCE MILLS cautions over the perils and pitfalls of ‘a new left party’


