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G7 leaders at a Nato summit in Brussels, Belgium
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Nato sets out its strategy for even more military build-up

Nato militarise eastern Europe against Russia

01 April 2022
Chancellor Rishi Sunak
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Inflation is avoidable and needs a response from below

Cost of living crisis isn't inevitable

28 March 2022
Russian president Vladimir Putin and Chinese president Xi Jinping
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‘Conflict in Ukraine risks a return to the Cold War era’

Professor Paul Rogers on Ukraine

18 March 2022
Stop the War rally at London's Trafalgar Square on Saturday 11 January 2020
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Sharp difference between trade unions’ response to war in Ukraine

Arguments in unions about the war

11 March 2022
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Amnesty tells it like it is — Israel is an apartheid state 

The solution is a single, democratic state

07 February 2022
Belfor made huge profits following the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan.
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Profits flow from rampant environmental destruction

Bosses profit from climate crisis

31 January 2022
IWGB union members protesting last Thursday
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‘We can’t stand for this’—delivery workers speak out

Delivery workers want better pay and conditions

23 January 2022
The Carillion collapse and capital
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KPMG—auditor’s Carillion cover-up is part of ‘endemic’ problem

KPMG knowingly hid Carillion’s financial problems

17 January 2022
Parents full a NHS maternity ward in Scotland.
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Institutional sexism puts women’s health at risk

Symptoms of a sexist health system

09 January 2022
Prince Charles next to first president of Barbados Sandra Mason at the Independence Day ceremony on a stage
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Royal family’s reign in Barbados comes to an end

Barbados is now a republic, but still with links to Britain

04 December 2021
British soldiers aim machine guns from a trench in a training exercise in Kenya.
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British troops murder, burn and kidnap in Kenya

The British Army commits brutal crimes in Kenya

08 November 2021
Workers are demanding improved menopause policy
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Workers are demanding improved menopause policy

Women often feel alone and ignored in their workplaces but now some trade unions are fighting back. Isabel Ringrose talks to workers about what could be done

24 October 2021