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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Workers’ rights: The EU Dilemma
While European rules brought new working rights to Britain, the relentless push for trade pacts such as TTIP threatens to destroy all our gains. As the referendum approaches, JOHN HENDY and STEVE GILLAN ask unions which side they are on
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
WITH the prospect of a referendum on continued EU membership drawing closer, trade unions and their members in Britain and Northern Ireland need to take a view on the merits of the EU.
For many, disgust at the EU’s humiliation of Greece, the supplanting of Greek democracy by rule from Brussels and the imposition of terms which even the IMF considered counterproductive will be decisive. But there are other matters to be weighed in the balance.
Since 2008 the troika (European Commission, European Central Bank and the IMF) has abused every request for financial assistance from countries which crashed their public finances by bailing out the banks which caused the financial crisis.
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