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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Britain's flawed nuclear policy
Under-informed ministers don't seem to understand the impact of their twin-track policies of nuclear promotion and nuclear controls, writes DAVID LOWRY
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
At the biennial Global Nuclear Summit in The Hague this week ministers did not see their own policies as promoting nuclear proliferation.
But proliferators they are, just as ministers in the predecessor Labour government were.
It is part of the problem that underinformed ministers do not always recognise the the impact of their policies. But they urgently need to.
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