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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Crunch time for the left: a communist view of the labour movement's priorities
ANDY BAIN spotlights today’s meeting by the Communist Party of Britain that looks to build for the struggle ahead
The Covid crisis is being used by bosses to attack workers' terms and conditions amid soaring unemployment. A British Gas worker on strike over fire-and-rehire
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
TODAY the Communist Party of Britain holds an aggregate for members who are trade union activists, against a background of escalation of the class struggle.
The party is growing and will use this gathering of longer-term and new members to educate, agitate and organise.
We meet in unprecedented times and all the sessions will begin from where we are now to build the struggle ahead.
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