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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Hare today, gone tomorrow?
At the start of a new month, PETER FROST looks at an animal forever connected with that month – the mad March hare
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 month of March, they say, roars in like a lion and creeps out like a lamb. It isn’t either lions or sheep I most associate with this often wet and windy month but hares.
We have two types of hare in Britain, one is the mountain hare (Lepus timidus), with a population well under half a million. It lives in Scotland and the north of England and if the weather is snowy enough in winter its fur turns white.
And there is a subspecies of the mountain hare called the Irish hare (Lepus timidus hibernicus) which is found only in Ireland.
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