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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Jumping more than my own height
PETER FROST, like most of the nation, has been watching the Tokyo Olympics
Charlotte Worthington shows off her skills at a display at Salford Quays
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
MORE than six decades ago this humble scribe had his own ambitions to win a medal in the Olympics.
I was about 12 when I won the Middlesex schools high jump championship. I was about five feet six-and-a-half inches (you can do your own metric conversion if you must) and I cleared the pole at five feet seven.
It was an impressive figure, and far higher than any other boy at the stadium that day.
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