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BRITAIN’S fourth-biggest trade union backed the legalisation of prostitution yesterday.
The policy was passed by delegates at Usdaw’s conference in Blackpool against the wishes of the union’s leaders.
General secretary John Hannett spoke against the motion and proposer Karen Heppell said she had been asked to withdraw it.
The Morning Star here publishes a speech that would have been given by Stop the War officer and longtime NEU and NUT activist Alex Kenny on the eve of the verdicts handed to Chris Nineham and Ben Jamal this week. He also explains why he couldn’t give it
Witnessing a war of words at a meeting on tackling militarism at The World Transformed, BEN COWLES spoke to a union rep who is organising against war from inside the arms industry itself, to hear about worker-led solutions to ending weapons production
Incoming Usdaw general secretary JOANNE THOMAS talks to Ben Chacko about workers’ rights, Labour and how to arrest the decline of the high street
