BEN CHACKO reports on fears at TUC Congress that the provisions in the legislation are liable to be watered down even further
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USAid, which Trump and Musk are moving to abolish, may provide essential aid. But it is also a front for meddling in foreign sovereignty, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
An Ethiopian woman scoops up portions of wheat to be allocated to each waiting family after it was distributed by the Relief Society of Tigray in the town of Agula, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia, May 8, 2021
CHRIS HOOFE calls for support for GMB’s Potters’ Pledge campaign, aimed at making sure the historic pottery industry based in Stoke-on-Trent is supported over cheap, low-quality imports and counterfeits
Investing the £75 billion slated for defence spending on a green new deal, healthcare and education would create jobs and help communities far more than weapons spending, argues UCU general secretary JO GRADY
Speaking to the Morning Star’s Ceren Sagir, general secretary of the National Union of Journalists LAURA DAVISON outlines the threats to journalism from Palestine to Britain, and the unique challenges confronting the industry through the rise of AI
We must organise broad-based counterprotests and celebratory local community events to rebuild class consciousness and challenge the far-right’s divisive lies, writes KEVIN COURTNEY, ahead of this Saturday’s big demo in London
Artists should not be consigned to a life of precarious working – they deserve dignity and proper workers’ rights, argues ZITA HOLBOURNE
THERE is an understandable outcry here about the potential termination of much-needed medical and humanitarian support to Third World countries as the Trump administration moves to shut down the US Agency for International Development (USAid).
For all intents and purposes, USAid appears to be — and to some extent is — a dispenser of essential aid to countries in need. Its termination is an ominous move in a likely trend.
Over the weekend, President Donald Trump’s unelected henchman, Elon Musk, threatened to throw USAid “into a wood chipper.” At a hastily called rally at the US Capitol on Wednesday, Democratic Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts asked: “What else is going into that wood chipper? Healthcare, democracy, fighting for the rights of those who are most desperate around the world.”
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