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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There's no such thing as ‘humane’ meat
Vegan ALISON BANVILLE argues the case against slaughtering animals for food
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
THERE has been a bit of a furore in recent days about a school that has been raising four pigs “to teach the children where their food comes from,” taking the decision to send them back to the farmer who supplied them so that they can be slaughtered.
But what has appeared to anger people and set the commentariat a-twittering is the fact that one of the parents, a vegan, opposed the killing of the pigs and tried his best to persuade the school to send the animals to a sanctuary.
Cue howls of moral superiority and vegans “getting on their high horses” or “trying to impose their beliefs on the rest of us.”
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