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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Millions and millions and still counting
PETER FROST has filled in what might be the last ever census form but he is looking at a wider count
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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
DID you do your duty of the decade and fill in your census last Sunday? You won’t of course if you live in Scotland where, because of the pandemic, the census has been delayed for a year.
The census is a survey that has happened every 10 years and gives us a picture of all the people and households in Britain.
It is likely that the March 2022 census may be the last one ever for the ironic reason that the government collects all the information it needs from the many other sources of data it gathers on every one of us in normal day-to-day contacts.
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