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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Bogazici students unite with revolutionary forces in fight for a new Turkey
STEVE SWEENEY on the university students' struggle that is giving Erdogan sleepless nights
Ozlem Gumustas, co-chair of the ESP, a part of the HDP opposition party
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
MAO ZEDONG’S famous dictum: “A single spark can start a prairie fire” has been used to describe various junctures in history.
The great man himself was addressing the issue of pessimism in the ranks of the Communist Party but was also pointing to the future and the basic question of how to assess a revolutionary situation.
Bogazici University philosophy student Besime Cetin believes that the current wave of protests could be one of the defining moments in Turkey.
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