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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Disabled people must not let themselves be divided over the blue badge scheme
BERNADETTE HORTON condemns the moral outrage directed at people with hidden disabilities
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
THE morally outraged shaking their sticks on social media and TV have been at it again.
Radio phone-in shows have been deluged with the able bodied, the physically disabled, and even hard-line No Deal Brexiteers having their say and screaming in capital letters about their perceived latest injustice.
On first sight and hearing, you would think they were shaking with rage at Theresa May’s woeful handling of Brexit, or her inept government, or even US President Donald Trump’s recent visit to Britain.
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Seventeen years after losing her council job due to needing endometriosis surgery, Michelle Dewar’s campaign for paid menstrual leave gained 50,000 signatures in a week, reports ELIZABETH SHORT
