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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William Cuffay — black labour movement pioneer
PETER FROST looks back two centuries to tell the story of an almost forgotten black leader of the British labour movement
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
LAST week just as the racist Boris Johnson became Britain’s latest unelected Tory prime minister, black and BAME Labour and trade union activists met in London to discuss stop some Brexit’s campaigner’s racist attack on the free movement of labour.
The racist incitement of anti-immigrant attitudes and the role this plays as a catalyst for expansion of the far-right agenda into mainstream politics was a major focus of discussions at the meeting.
As more and more details of the disgusting Windrush scandal become known, they demonstrate the Tory Party’s and Britain’s contribution to dangerous growing white nationalism all across Europe.
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