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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The wild plants that helped win two wars
PETER FROST has been out and about in the hedgerows diligently engaged in an intrepid search of some of the most secret weapons from two world wars. Here’s what he discovered
Rosehip bush
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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
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This year marks the centenary of the merchant navy convoys that broke the U-boat stranglehold on transatlantic shipping in WWII.
The heroes of the merchant navy did a remarkable job, but it still needed other imaginative and resourceful work to ensure Britons got a healthy diet.
Growing children and their parents needed vitamins, particularly vitamin C, but importing fruit and orange juice would take up valuable shipping space.
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