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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Alina Sanchez: In the footsteps of Che Guevara
MARCEL CARTIER reflects on the recent death of Argentine revolutionary internationalist Alina Sanchez, who fought alongside the PKK and YPJ in Kurdistan
Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara at his office as Minister of Industry while being interviewed by Laura Berquist for Look magazine in 1963
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
IT SEEMS that almost daily there is news travelling from Kurdistan to all corners of the world that is sombre in nature. The revolutionary process that began in Rojava, northern Syria, in 2012, and the subsequent fight against fascism in its Islamic State and Turkish state manifestations has seen hundreds of internationalist volunteers pick up the gun in defence of revolution.
Countless comrades have perished on foreign soil in a country often very different from their own culturally — but that is nonetheless free territory, the essence of which is to provide the focal point for the world revolution today.
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