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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Mahdi Abu Dheeb: free at last
The head of the Bahrain Teachers’ Association has finally been released after five years’ imprisonment, writes CHRISTINE BLOWER
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
INTERNATIONAL solidarity is at the heart of everything that the National Union of Teachers (NUT) stands for.
We campaign for human rights to be upheld wherever in the world they are threatened.
On international solidarity we have campaigned against human rights abuses in Colombia and Turkey and in Palestine. We have supported campaigns for teachers’ rights and education provision in Kenya, Uganda and Sierra Leone. But here I’ll be focusing on human rights violations in Bahrain.
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