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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The tale of two Pakistans
The struggle for Pashtun civil rights emerged from mass protests in 2018 against police killings and state repression. The Pashtuns are the largest single ethnic minority of Pakistan at over 16 per cent of the population. MANZOOR PASHTEEN reports
THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES: Manzoor Pashteen, the author of the article, at a rally in Lahore
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
THE first overthrow of a civilian government in Pakistan took place as early as August 22 1947, with the country just a few days old.
The dismissal of Dr Khan Sahib’s popularly elected North West Frontier Province government — today’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa — paved the way for military dictatorships that followed.
This early political failure shows why a sense of historical perspective is needed to make a different Pakistan today.
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