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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Calibrated chaos and cruelty in the little town of Bethlehem
Following a recent visit, JAN O’MALLEY reports on the tactics of constant obstruction, harassment and persecution, from tear-gassing nurseries to arbitrary checkpoints and night raids, used to drive Palestinians from their land
CONSTANT DEGRADATION: A night raid in the West Bank
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
DURING my visit to Palestine on a 10-day study tour organised by the Israeli Committee against House Demolitions (ICAHD) in November, I saw many examples of carefully calibrated chaos and cruelty used by the Israelis to systematically disrupt every aspect of Palestinian life.
This goes on every day and is not always reported by the world’s media. As the Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti said: “Occupation interferes in every aspect of your life and of death; it interferes with longing and anger and desire and walking in the street. It interferes with going anywhere and coming back, with going to market, the hospital, the beach, the bedroom, or a distant capital.”
We visited checkpoint 300 in Bethlehem at 5.30am and saw hundreds of Palestinian workers with permits to work in Jerusalem gathering in a frightening crush to get through. This was no way human beings should have to start every working day.
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