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 burden on Venezuelan women has quadrupled’
ELENA LINARES, president of the Women’s International Democratic Federation-affiliated Clara Zektin Women’s Movement argues women now face four main obstacles — including the policy decisions of the ruling PSUV government
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 world is facing the consequences of a worsening global crisis of capitalism together with the Covid-19 pandemic which accelerated the deterioration of the majority of people’s living conditions — conditions which were already precarious due to the structural crisis underway.
Venezuela does not escape this reality, and in order to evaluate the current situation of Venezuelan women, we must take into account the following four aspects.
Firstly, the consequences of a capitalist crisis and pandemic, circumstances which have been taken advantage of by the forces of capital and the governments in its service to strip the masses of their gains and impose greater levels of over-exploitation, redoubling all shortages, particularly for women.
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