Delegates at the recent PCS union’s annual conference voted overwhelmingly to affiliate to the Hands Off the People of Iran campaign. This is fantastic news for the campaign and will hopefully open up opportunities for the campaign to win further serious support from the working class movement. There is a similar motion supporting HOPI which will be discussed at the forthcoming ASLEF – train drivers union – conference. If any other comrades want assistance or advice on getting their union to support HOPI, either at a national or branch level, then please get in touch.

To read a report of PCS conference written by Dave Vincent, the comrade who moved the motion to affiliate to HOPI, click here.

Following the conference an SWP member in a leading position within PCS has claimed, in a letter to the Morning Star, that PCS members were “duped” into supporting this motion. To read the letter, and a response from Communist Students and CPGB comrade Ben Lewis, click here.