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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Moving beyond factional-point scoring
As Diane Abbott retains her ability to stand for Labour in the general election, it is a suitable juncture to consider racial issues and their complexities among different groups, says NICK WRIGHT
Diane Abbott during the Pride Of Britain Awards in 2018
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
RISHI SUNAK’S reaction to Diane Abbott’s exquisite victory over Starmer’s hit squad was to claim that Angela Rayner — who openly sided with the persecuted Hackney MP against Starmer — was now in charge of Labour.
She isn’t, of course. But she does have something of an independent mandate in that she was directly elected to her deputy post and was notionally a concession to the idea that Labour remained a broad church.
The price she has paid for remaining little more than a decoration to the new regime is to be incrementally compromised by Starmer’s serial betrayals, staying silent while he and Rachel Reeves firmed up their neoliberal economic policies.
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