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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PETER LAZENBY reports on the campaigns to save rural bus routes and discounted or free travel
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
TIME was when Britain’s bus services were run by local councils on behalf of the people they represented.
I well remember Leeds Corporation’s buses. They were painted green. Bradford Corporation’s fleet were painted blue. Or was it the other way round? No matter.
In Sheffield — part of the nicknamed “Socialist Republic of South Yorkshire” in the 1970s — there were concessionary fares. On Sundays bus travel was free to all retired people. The buses were packed — old Nellie going to visit her sister at the other side of the city. That sort of thing.
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