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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Millions vote with their feet for break with Spain
Luke James witnessed one of the biggest political demonstrations in Spanish history calling for Catalan independence
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
After staging their third million-plus national day demonstration in as many years in Barcelona last Thursday, the Catalan people are gaining a reputation as the masters of spectacular political gestures.
Waving Welsh flags with friends among a crowd equal to a quarter of the country’s population it was impossible to sense the full scale of the event.
Only afterwards was it clear that people who formed a huge “V for vote” in the colours of the Catalan flag had created history with one of Europe’s largest ever demonstrations.
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