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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Morning Star editor Ben Chacko interviews DOUG NICHOLLS, Britain’s longest-serving trade union general secretary and probably one of only a handful of trade unionists at TUC Congress this year who was at the 1988 congress when Jacques Delors delivered his infamous speech to gain trade union support for the European Union’s new integration plans and single market
Doug Nicholls, general secretary of the GFTU
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
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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
WHAT do you recall about the context in which the 1988 TUC met?
The once workshop of the world had been closed down. The shock and awe of the destruction of industry and coal and their leadership unions was unprecedented in world history.
Steel, engineering, docks, shipbuilding, print — all savaged in the wanton act of vandalism of Thatcher.
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