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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Grinding poverty is not inevitable — Scottish Labour is determined to stop it
The SNP might be reluctant to use its powers to help children without food or warm clothes, but Labour will not hesitate, writes ELAINE SMITH
Housing activists protest in Edinburgh
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 2018 Scottish Labour conference opens in Dundee against a backdrop of austerity, local government spending cuts and rising inequality.
In Scotland in 2017, the top 1 per cent of the population owned more wealth than the bottom 50 per cent put together. Over one million people in Scotland are living in poverty, often in households where at least one adult is in work. For many thousands of children, poverty will affect their life chances, health and opportunities.
This is quite simply unacceptable and not what was envisaged when the new Scottish Parliament came into being in 1999.
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