JEREMY CORBYN reports from Hiroshima where he represented CND at the 80th anniversary of the bombing of the city by the US
Poverty, wonder-working and turnips
With the cost-of-living crisis showing no signs of abating, LYNNE WALSH talks to women about their experiences with foodbanks and ‘managing finances’ – and discovers some pathbreaking work on poverty being carried out by the Smallwood Trust
SOPHIE BOLT makes an urgent case for comprehensive nuclear disarmament
Today Coventry’s Hiroshima Day Remembrance marks 80 years since the atomic bomb was dropped in 1945. Statement from Coventry Lord Mayor’s Committee of Peace and Reconciliation
All major Las Vegas Strip casinos are now unionised in a historic victory for labour, says RIO YAMAT
Letter to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Home Secretary Yvette Cooper – to be delivered by a delegation of Jews to Downing Street today
Laughter has always been how workers cope and fight back, but university-educated union reps now scold members for calling bosses ‘money-grabbing bastards’ and label everyday humour ‘problematic’ — this needs to be stopped, writes MARK JONES
CURRENT statistics on poverty in the UK make grim reading, with trying to digest the bad news exacerbated by a government minister’s “let them eat turnips” advice.
The gaffe-prone Therese Coffey, secretary of state for environment, food and rural affairs, claimed in the Commons that food shortages were short-lived, and meanwhile we should “cherish” seasonal root vegetables.
Coming from a parliamentarian who benefits from her workplace’s heavily subsidised restaurant menus, this clearly stuck in the public’s craw.
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This year’s Bristol Radical History Festival focused on the persistent threats of racism, xenophobia and, of course, our radical collective resistance to it across Ireland and Britain, reports LYNNE WALSH
LYNNE WALSH previews the Bristol Radical History Conference this weekend
With most of recorded history dominated by the voices of men, LYNNE WALSH encourages sisters to read the memoirs of women – and to write their own too
