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Modern-day slavery is growing
Forced and unpaid labour are spreading across the globe, from the garment trade to cleaning to construction — we need to stop turning a blind eye, writes ROGER McKENZIE
Schools are at breaking point, argues NASUWT general secretary MATT WRACK — we urgently need investment in our kids’ futures
MIKE SCOTT assesses the AI threat to jobs in the first of a pair of articles on the problems it poses
Without energy and without a strategic partner, Cuba is currently fighting for its survival. While the population is literally sitting in the dark, the Trump administration is trying to definitively break the socialist project through economic blackmail. What lies ahead for the island, asks MARC VANDEPITTE
A setback for IG Metall at Tesla’s Berlin plant has ignited claims of intimidation and raised fears for the future of collective bargaining and workplace democracy, says TONY BURKE
The question for the media, in the US and across the globe, says ROGER McKENZIE, is will they do their job fearlessly and call Donald Trump out?
NEW figures show that slavery is on the increase across the globe. These are words I simply should not be writing in the 21st century.
Walk Free, the International Organisation for Migration and the International Labour Organisation estimate in their recently released Global Slavery Index that nearly 50 million people were now enslaved.
The damning report showing that 49.6m people are trapped in slavery should bring shame to the leaders of the world who have chosen to ignore it or — worse still — condone it by their inaction.
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