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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Rabbi Mirvis is overplaying his hand
Voters are being asked to call the rabbi's bluff in the face of increasingly unbelievable allegations - and this relentless politicking only threatens the safety of the Jewish community writes ADAM LEWINSKI
Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis
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
DESPITE the headlines, the recent intervention of Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis on the issue of alleged anti-semitism within Labour was not an “unprecedented” intervention from the leadership of the Jewish community in the four-year history of anti-semitism smears directed at the party.
The intervention was small-fry in comparison to the demonstrations of hundreds of British Jews led by the Board of Deputies and Jewish leadership council in March 2018, the joint front cover across three national Jewish newspapers accusing Labour of anti-semitism in July 2018, the letter signed by 68 rabbis accusing Labour of anti-semitism in the same month, or the accusations levelled by the far-right extremist Rabbi Jonathan Sacks in August 2018.
Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis’s letter, describing Jeremy Corbyn as “unfit for office” and urging the electorate to “vote with their conscience” is just the end of a long line of overtly political attacks on the Labour Party from Jewish community leaders.
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