Economists estimate extreme poverty could be drastically reduced for a fraction of global defence spending, yet military budgets continue to expand year on year, says JON TRICKETT MP, ahead of the Stop the War International Conference on Saturday
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Dirty rivers and dodgy bankers
Thames Water is pumping filth into our rivers while raking in profits – and just happens to be owned by Australian bank Macquarie. SOLOMON HUGHES investigates
As Unison launches its Year of Women Workers, ANNIE COGAN-THOMAS argues that stronger organisation and collective bargaining are essential to winning equality
Trade unions, trades councils and community organisations must work together to build lasting solidarity and resistance to the far right, argues DREW GILCHRIST
Recent violence in Belfast was not spontaneous — it was built on years of failure and political neglect, argues STIOFAN O NUALLAIN
As delegates meet in Brighton this week, Unison faces pressing questions about pay, organising, workers’ rights and political representation, explains ANDY CHAFFER
Andy Burnham’s growing stature has fuelled hopes of a Labour revival – but ALAN SIMPSON warns that Britain’s crisis runs far deeper than just its leadership and traces its roots to decades of financialised capitalism
Who is pouring crap all over Britain? The Environment Agency is the main regulator dealing with companies which pollute our countryside, and it has been busy recently trying to dissuade firms from pumping filth over the landscape.
It is doing their best but its powers are limited. There is a big question mark over the agency’s ability to stop the polluters.
Because it is dealing with the most don’t-care, not-bothered-by-fines, anti-social people in the world — bankers.
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