Assistant general secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions HENRY FOWLER reports on day 1 from the GFTU’s residential Summer School at Quorn Grange Hotel
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A BRAND new spectre is haunting the head honchos of the world economy — it is “economic coercion.”
Who is doing the coercing? The People’s Republic of China of course.
Having decided to convene, wildly inappropriately, in Hiroshima last month, it was perhaps inevitable that the leaders of the G7 states would devote some time to stoking up international conflict.
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