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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The exploitation of ‘generation rent’ goes right to the top of the Tory Party
PEAS IN A POD: Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks with Sir Edward Lister as he arrives in Downing Street
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
MANY young voters complain that the housing market is set against them. House prices are so high, they can’t see how they can ever afford to buy.
Available social housing is as rare as hen’s teeth, so they can’t get a decent home at a fair price, and are forced into insecure, expensive, poorly regulated rentals. They are “generation rent.”
Bad news for them. But good news for a lot of the Tories’ supporters, big and small, who want to exploit them.
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