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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Free the HDP: Break the Silence on Kurds
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
Berxwedan Jiyane — Resistance is Life in Kurmanci — has long been the slogan of the Kurdish movement and was heard most powerfully last week by Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Leyla Guven as she was carted off to prison by Turkish state goons.
Like so many of her comrades, Guven was stripped of her parliamentary status along with Diyarbakir MP Musa Farisogullari and the pair were detained just hours later, with the HDP warning that the latest move by the Turkish state amounted to a political coup.
She has since been released, but Musa remains behind bars. And it is easy to see why the HDP makes such claims amid speculation the party may be shut down by the state.
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