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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A miscellany of seasonal countryside stories from PETER FROST
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
I AM firmly of the opinion that mistletoe should become the symbol plant of the Tories, rather like Labour’s red rose.
Why mistletoe, I hear you ask. Well, it is of course a total parasite. It contributes nothing at all to the trees or orchards it hangs about in, merely sucking the goodness from its host trees. Totally Tory.
It has a scruffy growth habit like uncombed blond hair. But most importantly, it is always there as an essential ingredient of the atmosphere of cheeky adulterous fun at secret Westminster parties — sorry, cheese and wine business meetings.
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