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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Must we say goodbye to the bonxie?
Avian flu is having a devastating effect on many of Britain’s seabird colonies on Scottish islands, the coastal cliffs of Scotland and the north of England — and now the great skua, or bonxie, is under threat, reports PETER FROST
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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
AVIAN FLU is a virus that causes disease in all kinds of birds, from commercial poultry such as chickens, geese and ducks as well as pigeons and wild birds.
There are different strains of the virus and most of them do not infect humans.
Domestic poultry are vulnerable and outbreaks can quickly develop in flocks. Now, most worryingly, huge flocks of seabirds arriving to breed on northerly British islands and coasts are being affected by the disease.
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