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 Labour Files: where is the outrage, where is the action?
LEAH LEVANE looks at the shocking revelations from a recent investigation into the anti-Corbyn conspiracy and asks if Labour cannot act on this now, how can it be trusted by its members in future?
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
YOU would not know it from the mainstream media — or the Labour Party — but Al Jazeera has produced four devastating films about machinations designed to discredit Jeremy Corbyn and his supporters.
The mainstream media amplified every criticism, every stumble and every allegation until the narrative of Corbyn’s unsuitability and Labour’s anti-semitism became accepted as “the truth.”
The station’s investigative unit has scoured huge quantities of internal party documents, social media data, emails and covert recordings that reveal the concerted campaign to discredit Corbyn and his supporters, to undermine the democratic procedures of the party and much more.
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The ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans was based on evidence of a pattern of violence and hatred targeting Arabs and Muslims, two communities that have a large population in Birmingham — overturning the ban was tacit acceptance of the genocidal ideology the fans espouse, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
