Green Party deputy leader MOTHIN ALI, who will speak at the International Anti-War Conference in London on June 20, says Britain needs to rethink its priorities – and its allies
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The Ian Lavery ‘scandal’ deliberately misses the point of trade unions
The media coverage says nothing about the good work Lavery for mineworkers as NUM president, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
From Global Counsel to Arden, SOLOMON HUGHES finds firms linked to discredited politicians are still calling the shots in Britain
KEVIN COURTNEY explains why Reform UK is no friend to workers or trade unions, but just another party of the super-rich
EMMA DENT COAD explains why she is stepping down from the council after 20 years and how the legacy of the fire still haunts the area
While international attention focuses on ceasefire frameworks, Israel is openly advancing plans for a permanent expansion of its control over Gaza, writes RAMZY BAROUD
Researchers PAUL HOLDEN and JESSICA MURRAY are calling for whistleblowers and documentary records to uncover how Labour Together helped build the parliamentary majority that now dominates the Labour Party
SINCE last March the Sunday Times and BBC2’s Newsnight have been running an “investigation” into Ian Lavery MP, the chair of the Labour Party.
The Murdoch press-led gang says Lavery got “a lot of dosh” (Newsnight) from his former job as a National Union of Mineworkers leader, and this is a “scandal.”
The media are combing through accounts to try to show how much Lavery was paid as a union leader, but say nothing about what the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) did under his leadership.
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