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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‘I witnessed the massacre of many women. And we exposed why this massacre happened’
Steve Sweeney talks to artist and co-founder of all-female news agency Jinha ZEHRA DOGAN, who was jailed in Turkey for her political struggle for Kurdish rights through art and journalism
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
“I CANNOT say I am impartial, I am partial. I am on the side of the oppressed,” Kurdish artist and journalist Zehra Dogan tells me as she hand-rolls a cigarette in the garden of the Kurdish Community Centre in north London.
It is a warm spring evening and the centre is a hive of activity. Much talk is of the recent events at Amnesty International’s London HQ where protesters occupying the human rights organisation’s reception area were violently removed by police just days before.
They were protesting over Amnesty’s continued silence on the plight of the Kurds and in particular the continued isolation of PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan.
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