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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Beetlemania!
PETER FROST confesses to perverse doings in his youth – but not with John, Paul, George or Ringo
An oil beetle
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
ABOUT 60-plus years ago when I was a snotty-nosed schoolboy in shorts and a cap, I did some things that make me feel very embarrassed today. I kept all sorts of native wild animals in cages.
Today it would be illegal, and rightly so, but these were days before the words environment, sustainability or conservation were widely heard about.
I kept caterpillars and watched them turn into butterflies and frogspawn that became tiny froglets. Newts were a real favourite, along with lizards, slowworms and one very handsome yard-long grass snake.
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