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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Crucial Communist Teaching Act ushers in a new McCarthy era
Congress is pushing absurd anti-communist propaganda into schools as young Americans increasingly reject capitalism — and this is an attempt to lay the ground for attacks on socialist nations and US unions too, warns JOHN WOJCIK
CPUSA banners on a May Day parade in New York
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 US Congress recently passed a horrific piece of legislation calling for the infusion into the nation’s public school system of a curriculum that teaches middle and high school students about the alleged evils of communism, including the absurd claim that communists have killed 100 million people.
The curriculum is to be provided by the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, a collection of well-funded extreme right operatives who have never supported the fight for democracy or the rights of workers.
Among the foundation’s more outstanding scandals was the building of a memorial to the “victims” of communism in Canada recently that included the names of more than 300 fascists engraved onto it.
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