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The rape and pillage of our green and pleasant land
As part of the Morning Star's campaign to save our rivers an indignant PETER FROST reports from a river bank in Herefordshire designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest and a Special Area of Conservation
The Lugg river, Lugg Flats, Hereford
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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
WITHIN days of the Tory government’s announcement that it will replace the set-aside huge payment to already rich farmers and landowners with even more money, supposedly to re-wild our countryside, at least one landowner has shown his total contempt for any kind of wildlife and landscape protection.
A huge section, well over a mile, of the beautiful Herefordshire River Lugg has been bulldozed. In a matter of hours this act of extreme and criminal vandalism has changed the Lugg from a beautiful river meandering through flowery water meadows into a straightened and re-profiled hard-edged sterile canal.
Ancient bank side trees have been grubbed out and burnt. Many riverside habitats completely obliterated. In just a few hours the bulldozer swept away part of a mature landscape that had taken many centuries to develop.
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