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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Could Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador be Mexico’s Jeremy Corbyn?
BEN CHACKO hears Mexican presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador outline his left-wing Morena partys plans to transform his country
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
MEXICO is not a safe place to be a trade unionist. Workers labour under restrictive “protection contracts” and attempts to organise unions independent of the bosses can result in beatings, arrests or worse.
It’s not a safe place to be a journalist either: nine have been killed so far this year alone. Human rights activists and social justice campaigners are frequent victims of lethal violence.
The sheer scale of this violence is often ignored. Last month Jan Jarab, representative of the United Nations’s Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Mexico, reported that an astonishing 30,942 people had disappeared in the country in the past nine years.
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