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Industrial action on the cards in the Civil Service
PCS is standing up for workers’ living standards, writes SHAVANAH TAJ
NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
THIS week, at both the Wales TUC conference and our own annual delegate conference, PCS will be taking further steps to challenge the Westminster government’s attack on public-sector workers’ livelihoods.
At the PCS conference in Brighton, our national executive committee (NEC) is seeking conference’s support to launch an industrial action ballot in pursuit of our national pay campaign.
The union submitted a pay claim in January for a fully funded 5 per cent or £1,200 pay rise, a living wage of £10 an hour, pay equality across the Civil Service and a common pay and grading structure.
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