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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NICK WRIGHT argues that the deep ideological malaise in ruling-class free-market thinking does not mean that a lacklustre, centrist Labour Party can just expect their turn to govern without some vision for a changed society
Asked to choose between Johnson and Starmer on who would make the best prime minister the clear majority thought “neither” — with a larger margin of opinion convinced that Johnson wouldn’t. More than twice as many people (55 per cent) think Starmer doesn’t look like a prime-minister in waiting than the 25 per cent who do.
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
AS the days get longer the Health Security Agency has suggested that the latest coronavirus variant, omicron, appears less likely to cause a serious illness or result in hospitalisation than the previously dominant variant.
One conclusion reached on the right of politics is that the threat from Covid is overblown and infection is now no more serious than a minor affliction. This is the unstated but underlying thinking of the “no constraints on business” faction.
If omicron has a reduced effect on some of the infected than earlier variants then this is good news for those individuals.
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