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Iran devastated by massive floods
JANE GREEN considers the plight of the ordinary people of Iran in the face of natural disaster
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
AS THE death toll, following over two weeks of flooding in Iran, heads towards three figures, anger at the government’s handling of the crisis is becoming widespread.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Commander Mohammed Ali Jafari have been trading accusations about the best way to handle the crisis.
Differences centre upon the demolition of a railway in northern Iran, to allow flood waters to drain away, a tactic the IRGC initiated but one which Rouhani has said makes no impact upon the flood relief effort.
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