Unison director of organising KEVIN LUCAS explains the Organising to Win strategy, its successes to date and key tests on the union’s horizon
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‘I recruited students – people like you – to set off bombs in the anti-apartheid struggle’
Joana Ramiro speaks to RONNIE KASRILS about a youth spent on subterfuge in the service of South African freedom from oppression
Young workers do want to get involved in Unison, and where that is enabled we see growth in workplace power, argue Unison North West Young Members co-chairs ZAIHERA CHAUDHRY and IAN CAULFIELD
British military spending is among the highest in the world, diverts scarce resources from far better causes and fuels international conflict. It’s time we made different choices, argues LIZ PAYNE
Trade unions, trades councils and community organisations must work together to build lasting solidarity and resistance to the far right, argues DREW GILCHRIST
Animal metaphors are testament to delight in the non-human world and what we hope and wish for human freedom, argue ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT"
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
HE HOLDS tightly onto my arm as we return from our interview in a local cafe. We are going to the London Film School for the showing of a documentary he has been lending his name to.
The passers-by, tourists and Christmas shoppers buzzing around Covent Garden may struggle to believe that the man walking beside me is a veteran of the anti-apartheid struggle and a former commander of the Umkhonto we Sizwe paramilitary forces co-founded by Nelson Mandela. He is Ronnie Kasrils — one of the best recruiters in the African National Congress (ANC).
Kasrils’s visit to London is not just another of his speaking tours. This time he is here to celebrate a story rarely told: how he recruited dozens of young men and women in Britain to join the fight of the ANC in a time when the party was fighting for its life.
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