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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Memories of Frosty Fairs
PETER FROST remembers snowmen and snowball fights before climate catastrophe
The Thames frozen over in 1963
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
WHEN I woke last Saturday, still in November, Storm Arwen had reached my home in the East Midlands. Outside the window there was heavy sleety snow and a few centimetres of fluffy white stuff had turned the garden into a winter wonderland.
Snow is a rare phenomenon nowadays in my part of the country but when I was a kid 60-odd years ago in north London we could almost guarantee a few weeks of heavy snow, certainly enough to build a snowman and have a few snowball fights, each and every winter.
I remember wrapping up warm to watch the huge number 18 six-wheel electric trolleybuses spinning their wheels on the stiff snowy climb from Harlesden to Wembley. These environmentally sound buses were much better on hills than the smelly diesels that would go on to replace them.
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