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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Palestine protests must have a realisable goal
Bringing to bear our collective power over our governments in the West to enforce peace is best aided by a demand for a viable Palestinian state here and now, argues NICK WRIGHT
Pro-Palestine protesters in Washington
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
DAVID CAMERON has emerged from his £25,000 faux Romany caravan to conduct the foreign policy of the second most powerful imperialist state in the world.
After the crudities of the Suella Braverman interlude, we are told that Rishi Sunak’s latest appointment gifts him a wise consigliere offering a socially liberal gloss to his Tory government.
Even those metropolitan sophisticates invested in the most permissive of moral regimes might find simulated intimacy with a dead pig at the outer limits of their tolerance and perhaps not the best qualification for one embarking on a Middle Eastern diplomatic mission.
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