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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We have not seen this type of anguish since the days of my boyhood in the 1930s
Today’s Tory Britain is sickeningly unjust – but my past does not have to become your future, says HARRY LESLIE SMITH
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
THE darkness of austerity gathers all across Britain like the clouds of night while the Tory Party conference in Manchester celebrates its victory in May’s general election behind barbed wire, barricades and a phalanx of police and private security.
As champagne flows and touches the lips of corporate lobbyist party donors and apologists for the slowest economic recovery in Britain for over 300 years, nearly 100,000 children live on the cusp of homelessness and in the cold bosom of despair.
While the party faithful gladhand David Cameron and George Osborne for a job well done on giving tax breaks to our most affluent citizens, four million people subsist below the poverty line.
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