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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Germany’s tug-of-war between forces for peace and militarists
The US is raging that Europe's leader might deepen business ties with Russia, so Russophobia over Belarus is once again raging too. Will Germany continue to bristle towards the East and embrace Nato, or does the left have a different path open, asks VICTOR GROSSMAN
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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
THE gas pipeline Nord Stream 2 is stuck; one end near Vyborg in Russia, the other, after a thousand kilometres, under swirling Baltic Sea waters, stalled only 164km short of its safe goal, Sassnitz in eastern Germany.
Donald Trump offered his customary words of wisdom; blustering threats if Germany favours pipelines over ever greater military build-up. His buddies, far-right senators Ted Cruz, Tom Cotton, and Ron Johnson, warned little Sassnitz, population 9,186, of “crushing economic and legal sanctions” if it lets the pipeline land there.
Some German business and political leaders were outraged at this crude interference and consider it far wiser to do business with Russia, selling it cars, chemicals, machinery, and farm products, than kowtowing to arms manufacturers and other war hawks on both sides of the Atlantic.
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