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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'Shitstorm'
It is three in the morning and PETER FROST is awaken by a truly Wagnerian thunderstorm — it turns out to be the mother of scores of shitstorms all around Britain’s coast
(L to R) Cartoon by JAB; Hastings and St Leonards Clean Water Action, protest against raw sewage release incidents on the beach in St Leonards, Sussex last Friday
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
IT was the middle of the night — nearer three in the morning in fact - when I was woken from my slumbers by the sound of thunder and bright flashes of lightning combined with the lovely sound of huge walnuts of raindrops knocking on the windows.
I’d left the bedroom windows wide open to combat the heavy heat of the day but it was still uncomfortably hot and sweaty so the storm was a refreshing blessing — like manna from heaven indeed. Both I and my parched garden simply needed the rain, and the more the better.
I little realised just what a terrible effect all that rain would have nationwide nor that it would introduce a brand new word into my vocabulary.
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