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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Ariam come home
In the last part of his features mini-series GLYN ROBBINS reveals the story of one migrant woman who escaped domestic violence only to by made homeless by an uncaring system
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
Cathy Come Home, Ken Loach's 1966 television film about homelessness, shocked the nation. It shone a light on the bleak conditions, moral judgmentalism and stigma suffered by those falling through the net of the welfare state.
Behind the politics, policy analysis and statistics of our broken system are real people's lives blighted by a crisis that's taking us back to the 1960s and beyond.
Ariam came to England from war-ravaged Eritrea in 2009. She married a man she barely knew and quickly became the victim of an abusive and violent relationship.
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