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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Another Nato is not possible
NICK WRIGHT looks at the strange delusions neccessary for those on the left that are so appalled by Putin that they now argue that the capitalist and military alliances of Europe can suddenly be radically democratised in time for war with Russia
Polish troops march in Romania during last year's Defender Europe 21, a US Army-led, massive, multinational, joint sabre-rattling exercise designed to build readiness for war and interoperability between NATO and partner militaries
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
IN RELATION to the crisis enacted out on the territory of Ukraine there are several ideas that form the basis of the position adopted by what we might call the “internationalist left.”
“Internationalist” in this context defines the left that elevates the interests of the working class as a whole over any spurious “national interest” shared with our rulers.
The foundation is opposition to the continued existence and global or regional dominance of military blocs. Where once the innocent deemed this a possibility — grounded in the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact which had united the socialist countries of Europe and thus ceased to exist when socialism was dismantled — it has now vanished along with illusions about an end to the history of class struggle.
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In an address to the Communist Party’s executive at the weekend international secretary KEVAN NELSON explained why the communists’ watchwords must be Jobs not Bombs and Welfare not Warfare