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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Sleepwalking into war
In the first of his articles STEWART McGILL looks at how US’s ‘decoupling’ from China threatens world peace and betrays a mindset focused on maintaining global dominance
DUAL USE: CSIRO uses the latest in computer gaming technology to help reduce the incidence of one of the most common cancers in Australia – bowel cancer. The simulator provides photo-realistic rendering using the processing power of the latest NVIDIA graphics cards
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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
IN 2013 Christopher Clark wrote The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914. The title reminded us of humanity’s current, somnambulant stumble towards global conflict.
In September 2022, US officials told chipmaker Nvidia that it would need special licences to sell Chinese customers two of its processors that are widely used to speed up AI calculations.
Nvidia said the crackdown was aimed at preventing military use of the processors. However, powerful AI chips are an important dual-use technology – they also play a central role in the data centres that process large volumes of data, with broader economic effects.
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