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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Greens, vaccines and military manoeuvres
VICTOR GROSSMAN considers what a Green Party advance means in an increasingly militarised and aggressive Germany — and what would the real left might do
Polish infantry at Justice Sword 21 exercise in
Romania, last Tuesday, part of Defender 2
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
IN RECENT months the air in Germany has been overfull. But the fog, thick as in old London, was not humid but political.
The thickest was Covid fog. How many new cases? How many deaths? Who could go out, when, in what size groups and till what hour? Which state wanted tougher restrictions and which wanted easier ones?
Whether decisions should be by the federal cabinet, the Bundestag legislature or every state for itself, which vaccine was 100 per cent safe, which might not be and why? When house doctors could vaccinate and how soon they’d get enough vaccine for which age and patient group?
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