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The elections for Assistant General Secretary (AGS) and General Secretary (GS) in PCS are underway (ballot opened 9 November, closes 14 December). The ruling Left Unity (LU) group is standing Fran Heathcote for GS and Paul O’Connor for AGS. Both will, if elected, take the enormous salary for these posts (guaranteed pay progression to £103,100 pa) in a union where, under their leadership, tens of thousands of members are on or close to the minimum wage.

Elections for the posts of General Secretary (GS) and Assistant General Secretary (AGS) of the civil service union PCS will commence on 9 November (and close 14 December). The ruling Left Unity ( LU ) group’s candidates will be Fran Heathcote and Paul O’Connor. The historic critics and opponents of Left Unity, the PCS Independent Left ( IL ), will be standing John Moloney, the incumbent, for AGS and supporting Marion Lloyd of the Broad Left Network for GS.

The elections for Assistant General Secretary and General Secretary of the PCS civil service union commence on 9 November (and close 14 December). The ruling Left Unity (LU) group is standing Paul O’Connor for AGS and Fran Heathcote for GS. The PCS Independent Left (IL), including AWL supporters, is standing John Moloney for AGS and supporting Marion Lloyd, of the Broad Left Network (BLN), for GS.

Mike Macnair replies to criticism of the CPGB on partyism and explains why we uphold the use of sharp open polemics and reject the soggy methods of diplomacy

Elections for the posts of General Secretary (GS) and Assistant General Secretary (AGS) of the civil service union PCS will commence on 9 November (and close 14 December). The ruling Left Unity ( LU ) group’s candidates will be Fran Heathcote and Paul O’Connor. The historic critics and opponents of Left Unity, the PCS Independent Left ( IL ), will be standing John Moloney, the incumbent, for AGS and supporting Marion Lloyd of the Broad Left Network for GS.

Sahra Wagenknecht is that rarest of rare things - a popular politician - and she is set on a split with Die Linke and going her own way. Carla Roberts takes a look at her BSW project

The branch nomination period for the upcoming elections for General Secretary (GS) and Assistant General Secretary (AGS) of PCS, the largest civil service trade union, ended on 16 October. Voting will be 9 November to 14 December. Predictably, there are two sets of candidates: Fran Heathcote and Paul O’Connor, of the ruling Left Unity (LU) group, and Marion Lloyd and John Moloney, standing on a Broad Left Network and Independent Left ticket. There is a great deal at stake.

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Nominations for the General Secretary and Assistant General Secretary of the PCS civil service union closed on 16 October, and voting is 9 November to 14 December. Solidarity calls on readers to vote for Marion Lloyd and John Moloney. They are standing for a democratic fighting union and for rebuilding the national pay campaign, de facto trashed by the incumbent Left Unity faction. If elected they will take no more than their civil service workers’ pay, and return the rest of the bloated offic...

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