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Wild about wild animals’ prisons
PETER FROST sticks his trunk, his fins and his paws into the dirty business of keeping wild animals in captivity
Anne the elephant at Longleat faces an uncertain future
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
AMAZINGLY, it was only a little more than a year ago that having wild animals like lions, tigers, elephants and sealions became illegal in Britain.
At the moment a similar law is being introduced to make the keeping of those same animals as pets in private homes also illegal.
At present there are over 50 elephants being kept in captivity in Britain. As they die it will be illegal to have any more unless they have been bred in captivity in Britain.
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