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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Racism and the Gaza war
In order to ‘justify’ their actions, oppressors seek to dehumanise their victims – hence the need to present the Palestinians as ‘human animals.’ The anti-racist left should be ready to combat this tendency, writes KEVIN OVENDEN
Last weekend’s massive pro-Palestine demo in London
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
THE coloniser has to reduce the native to the level of an animal if the process of domination is to be maintained.
The Martiniquan revolutionary Frantz Fanon was one leading post-war independence figure to remind us of that in the last century.
Any doubt that this latest war by Israel on the Palestinians arises from the settler-colonial encounter of dispossession, occupation and siege is removed by considering the language of extreme dehumanisation already deployed.
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