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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Remembering Frida Kahlo
Sixty-five years ago a wonderful communist artist died. PETER FROST tells the amazing life story of Frida Kahlo
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
ABOUT 10 years ago, trapped in Dublin by those Icelandic volcanoes, I found I had time to visit an exhibition of an artist — Frida Kahlo — I had read about but never actually seen her paintings except in books.
Now at last I could see the actual gem like sparkling works.
Most were small, brightly coloured with frames that made them a bit like atheist religious icons.
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