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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Rules? What rules? The revolving door between government and business
The recent attempt to pretend that restrictions are really being placed on industry hiring government insiders as lobbyists and fixers is singularly unconvincing, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
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 latest Business Appointment Rules show the continued circulation of people from the Cabinet Office — the heart of government — to corporate lobbying.
The “Rules” are a half-hearted attempt to stop corporations getting influence when they hire government insiders.
When government staff — on what are called senior Civil Service grades 1 and 2 or SCS1 and SCS2 — leave departments, their new jobs have to be looked at under the Business Appointment Rules and agreed by the permanent secretary, the top official in the department.
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Martin Taylor, the hedge-fund multimillionaire who has poured millions into pushing Labour rightwards, helped finance Lucy Powell’s supposedly dissenting campaign — suggesting her victory was not the ‘soft-left’ rebellion some have claimed, says SOLOMON HUGHES
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